June 26, 2018 Alan Behr Tribune News Service A prudent first consideration when trying to understand Seattle is that it is not Athens, Rome or, for that matter, Stratford-upon-Avon. The…
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AFTER TWO DECADES, A RETURN TO PRAGUE IN THE LIGHT OF DAY
Alan Behr, McClatchy-Tribune News Service November 11, 2001 PRAGUE —Unlike cities such as Salzburg, which are lucky to display the Baroque in small clusters, Prague opens the Baroque onto the…
PARIS, UNBOWED, STILL BECKONS VISITORS
Alan Behr TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE Paris is a moveable feast. -Ernest Hemingway When we are young, we travel to see the world, afterwards, to make sure it is still there.…
A RETURN TO NEW ORLEANS AND ITS AFFORDABLE CUISINE
Waiters serve patrons at Cafe du Monde in New Orleans, Louisiana. (ALAN BEHR, MCT) Alan Behr, McClatchy-Tribune News Service August 13, 2012 NEW ORLEANS -On Bourbon Street, stout men in…
ART MARKET: SHOW ME THE ART — I MEAN THE MONEY
By Alan Behr NEW YORK, 22 OCTOBER 2012 — The artist who wants to make a living by his art who does not accept that he is running a small…
COMMENT: ROLLING STONES 50 & COUNTING TOUR IT'S ONLY ROCK AND ROLL (BUT I MANAGED TO SCORE A TICKET)
By Alan Behr NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, 25 DECEMBER 2012 — If they are to endure, improvisations that arise from communal experiences will refine themselves into ritual. So it was at…
GALA GLITTERS AS WALL STREET SHATTERS
By Alan Behr NEW YORK, 25 SEPTEMBER 2008 – Investment banks were either imploding, restructuring or surrendering their independence, stocks were falling and Congress was debating an emergency bailout package…
IN HIS OWN IMAGE: SHEPARD FAIREY FIGHTS TO REDEFINE COPYRIGHT LAW
By Alan Behr NEW YORK, 3 MARCH 2009 I. Don’t Fight the Law. It May Simply Change its Mind. Even a few years ago, street artists such as Shepard Fairey…
LISTENING TO THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF RALPH GIBSON
By Alan Behr PARIS, 1 MAY 2018 — When you have what, in photography, could be called celebrity status and have held that honor for close to half a century,…
COMMENT: CATTELAN'S 'AMERICA' AT THE GUGGENHEIM
By Alan Behr NEW YORK, 1 OCTOBER 2016 — The spiraling rotunda of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum was closed recently, the floor filled with great crates in natural wood and…