Michael Kilian

Few are the artists who take courses in emergency medical procedure as a preparation for their creative calling. But then, few are the artists who deal with the human body...

In photography, with a high-tech zoom lens, going from far to near can take no more than a millisecond. But then, it can be a journey of many years --...

We have come to the end of the holiday season and to what I call the great annual national capital social sorting out. This is the time when grasping capital...

The spirit was willing, but the winds were weak. The climax of the weeklong commemoration of the Wright brothers' first flight here 100 years ago was to have been a...

I am happy to report that two of this city's most engaging theatrical attractions are alive and kicking, despite the vicissitudes of time and the economics of the theater. One...

The state of Florida -- which gave us the presidency of George W. Bush and consequently the current unpleasantness in Iraq -- appears to be making amends. As they used...

The Cold War never ended. Not in Cuba, the setting of a just-opened new play called "The Cook" at Manhattan's INTAR Hispanic American Arts Center. The U.S. government now happily...

To my amazement, much of America has become entranced by the Napoleonic Wars, at least that aspect of them that involves bowsprits, grog, mainmasts, 12-pounders and broadsides. Russell Crowe's stupendous...

A new exhibition that opened last week at this city's Adelson Galleries bears the somewhat perplexing title of "Sargent's Women." In artistic terms, of course, it makes perfect sense. The...

There's a passage in Don Marquis' delightful "archy & mehitabel" in which Archy the vers libre poet turned cockroach finds Mehitabel the cat dancing in an alley on a cold,...