About
Kira Nam Greene’s work explores female sexuality, desire and control through figure and food still-life paintings, surrounded by complex patterns. Imbuing the feminist legacies of Pattern and Decoration Movement with transnational, multicultural motifs, Greene creates colorful paintings that are unique combinations of realism and abstraction, employing diverse media such as oil, acrylic, gouache, watercolor and colored pencil. Combining Pop Art tropes and transnationalism, she also examines the politics of food through the depiction of brand name food products, or junk food. Recently, Greene started a figurative painting series spurred by the 2016 Presidential Election, Women’s March, #metoo movement and ensuing crisis of conscience, this new body of work aspires to present the power of collective action by women.
Category Archives: Theater
Richard III: Un autre candidat Républicain à la présidentielle?
Richard III (dirigĂ© par Sam Mendes), une des premières  pièces politiques de Shakespeare, montĂ© Ă BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), est un choix parfait en cette saison de politique prĂ©sidentielle. Cette reprĂ©sentation, avec Kevin Spacey en vedette dans le rĂ´le … Continue reading
Un voyage intellectual dans le temps de Tom Stoppard
This spring theater season, I did not have too much time to devote to sample a lot of shows, but I did have a chance to see the revival of Tom Stoppard‘s 1993 masterpiece Arcadia starring Billy Crudup, Margaret Colin, … Continue reading
The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a key to the Scriptures
Yes, that is the title of the latest Tony Kushner play that I saw last Friday  at the Public Theater (in co-production with Signature Theater Company, in part of their season long Kushner retrospective / celebration).  The play, which explores … Continue reading
Wozzeck at the Metropolitan Opera
I have been enjoying going to the Metropolitan Opera all season long this year. Â Last year I decided that I wanted to see more operas and especially the repertory beyond Puccini, Verdi and Mozart. Â I subscribed a Monday subscription series … Continue reading
La Bohème at the Metropolitan Opera
Introducing Vittorio Grigolo, Video by New York Times Vittorio Grigolo, une Ă©toile montante dans le monde de l’opĂ©ra a fait ses dĂ©buts au Met comme Rodolfo dans la production populaire de Franco Zeffirelli de La Bohème. ConsidĂ©rĂ© comme beau, Ă©nergetique, … Continue reading
“Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” et “Hair”: deux comĂ©dies musicales politique et la poursouite de l’utopie
Il est rare que j’aille au spectacle d’une comèdie musicale, mais je me suis trouvĂ©e ce mois-ci Ă deux comèdies musicales politique qui viennet tous les deux de Public Theater. «Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Sanglant Sanglant Andrew Jackson)» est un … Continue reading
Armide par Rossini dans le Metropolitan Opera
Renee Fleming, qui est sans doute la chanteuse amĂ©ricaine la plus connue et une vĂ©ritable star dans le monde de l’opĂ©ra, choisit ses roles en particulier et personnellement depuis des annĂ©es. Au fil des ans, le management du Metropolitan Opera, … Continue reading
Red on Broadway
I saw Alfred Molina as Mark Rothko in the Broadway production of Red a couple of weeks ago. Surprisingly moving portraiture of an artist, and here’s what I thought about it in French. 🙂 Rouge, une nouvelle production de Donmar … Continue reading