Barbara Ernst Prey, 1/15/12

Artist; Member of the National Council on the Arts

This is a memorable event, not only for the opportunity to hear, see and meet some of the living Jazz legends but, also to be part of the group as the Jazz Masters greet one another.

Carla Seaquist, 1/15/12

Writer and Playwright

Why can't Art instruct? In addition to providing entertainment, consolation, beauty, and a reflection of our humanity by holding "the mirror up to nature," why can't Art also teach us a thing or two?

Bess Rowen, 1/15/12

Ph.D Student, Department of Theatre, CUNY, the Graduate Center

Seeing naked female bodies happens a great deal in theatre, but it is often in entirely gratuitous scenes, with flattering lighting, adhering to some sort of fetishized concept of female sensuality.

Dinah Berland, 1/12/12

Author, "Hours of Devotion: Fanny Neuda's Book of Prayers for Jewish Women"

For painters, poets, or writers of any age, art doesn't come from the body; it comes from imagination and desire.

Julia Pott, 1/12/12

The Sundance Diaries

The HuffPost Culture series "The Sundance Diaries" will investigate the "short" path to Sundance with regular diary-style entries from the storytellers, animators, and documentarians from around the world whose 64 short films were selected out of a pool of 7,675 for the 2012 festival.

Artlog, 1/13/12

Artlog.com is your contemporary art guide

Damien Hirst is coming to a town near you. In fact, his spot paintings will be on view at all eleven of the famous Gagosian galleries. On the occasion of the opening, Artlog.com provides you with eleven facts about the notorious spot paintings.

Jessie Ennis, 1/12/12

The HuffPost Culture series "The Sundance Diaries" will investigate the "short" path to Sundance with regular diary-style entries from the storytellers, animators, and documentarians from around the world whose 64 short films were selected out of a pool of 7,675 for the 2012 festival.

Katharine Hannah, 1/10/12

16-year-old self-taught photographer from Indiana

Maybe in a slanted universe that we aren't conscious of, it is possible to push your hand through a wall or walk on the ceiling. Maybe it is possible to push past the boundaries in this dimension.

Julie Chae, 1/13/12

NYC/DC-Based Curator; Art Advisor

Herb Tam is the curator and director of exhibitions at the Museum of Chinese in America and a part of the new wave of younger curators with dynamic ideas about the role of museums in engaging with our communities.

Austin Nelson, 1/13/12

Photographer in Brooklyn

Paul Klein, 1/13/12

Art advocate

Wendy Merry, 1/12/12

Poet/Writer; President, Entertainment, SA Studios Global

While 2011 further galvanized Twitter as a global tool, a voice in censored communities, a unifying platform for Arab Springs and Occupy marches, somehow Ashton Kutcher remains Twitter's de facto mayor.

Edward Goldman, 1/12/12

Art Critic, KCRW 89.9 FM

In the next two weeks, Los Angeles will host not one, not two, but, believe it or not, four art fairs, ranging from Photo L.A., celebrating its 21st anniversary, to the first-time L.A. Affordable Art Fair.

Debra Levine, 1/12/12

artsmeme.com

Heavy-hitting filmmakers are turning their cameras on dance and it's an honor. It's also a puzzlement. With Pina, Wim Wenders joins the recent ranks in crafting rapturous, high-tech paeans to the art form.

John Hibey, 1/12/12

The Sundance Diaries

The HuffPost Culture series "The Sundance Diaries" will investigate the "short" path to Sundance with regular diary-style entries from the storytellers, animators, and documentarians from around the world whose 64 short films were selected out of a pool of 7,675 for the 2012 festival.

wejetset, 1/13/12

a modern travel store and magazine

"Through the RedBall Project I utilize my opportunity as an artist to be a catalyst for new encounters within the everyday," artist Kurt Perschke says.

Howard Kissel, 1/13/12

Blogger, Cultural Tourist

A dozen years ago Maria wrote about her father in Gary Cooper Off Camera: A Daughter Remembers. The book had extensive photographs of the Coopers' private life. She keeps the voluminous photographs her mother saved in huge portfolios under a plush sofa in the living room.