Originally published on Tue September 18, 2012 3:42 pm
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Pablo Helguera is a New York-based artist working with sculpture, drawing, photography and performance. You can see more of his work at Artworld Salon and on his own site.
Glen David Andrews, the New Orleans trombonist and singer and regular on HBO's Treme, surfs the crowd at the 2010 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
For Family Band's Kim Krans, music and visual imagery are inexorably intertwined as means of expressing a dark, delicate vision. Recording with her guitarist husband Jonny Ollsin as Family Band, she's crafted a beautifully unsettling ballad in "Night Song," but it's almost difficult to imagine hearing it without the visuals she created for its video:
Originally published on Tue September 18, 2012 3:44 pm
All this week, we've been exploring the ways families help kids learn to play music. Along the way, we've gleaned lots of great tips on everything from choosing an instrument to tantrum-free practice from our readers, as well as young musicians who have appeared on From the Topand their parents.
Credit Patrick Monaghan / Courtesy of Cabinet of Wonders
This week's Cabinet of Wonders lineup sing "Religious Experience" to close the show.
Credit Patrick Monaghan / Courtesy of Cabinet of Wonders
Novelist Colson Whitehead reads about the adolescent trauma he suffered at the hands of Coca Cola. He says, "Fiction is payback on those who have wronged you."