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Recommendations

ML Hart recommends

ML Hart Recommends is a springboard for delving into the performing, visual and literary arts. Whether you find yourself either inspired or puzzled in a gallery, a workshop, a theatre or somewhere entirely unexpected, I’ve collected memories and opinions and links from around the world to share. Indulge your curiosity with my recommendations to explore both the familiar and the new and be surprised, amazed or inspired.

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artists and craft in the studio - hands shaping a clay pot

Artists & Craft

Creative process: Who makes art and how, and why it matters

Puppet-actors from Salzburg Marionette Theatre in puppet actors in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Drama & Dance

The world’s stages: What’s on, what’s trending, what intrigues

ML Hart recommends film & tv vintage 35mm movie projector with reels

Movies & TV

Favorites and influences: Behind the scenes and camera-ready

ML Hart recommends music vinyl record on turntable

Music

Playing now: Reviewing unforgettable melody, harmony, rhythm

red stage curtains

Opera

Onstage & backstage: Past and future, what works, what doesn’t

far and familiar, a woman stands on a rocky beach gazing across the ocean towards the horizon, dreaming of travel

Positivity +

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same. CARLOS CASTANEDA

ML Hart recommends reading oil painting, Girl Reading by Pablo Picasso

Reading

Reviews & recommendations: Classic to modern, to-be-read

Art and the Audience

Each member of the audience, every viewer and listener and reader receives a performance in their own way.

You might be at a play or a concert or a poetry slam. Perhaps you’re reading a book or binge-watching a TV series. We all bring our own set of filters when we pay attention and participate. Life-knowledge and cultural background and exposure to a range of artistic input create a unique layer of filters, neither good nor bad. They help define who we are, as an individual or a member of the collective – the audience.

This is the jumping off point. I’ve started this dialogue with my subjective thoughts and invite you to join in by commenting and sharing your unique-to-you experiences.


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ML Hart’s journal of observations, obsessions & inspirations

Writer. Documentary photographer. Artist.
I’m inspired by both shadow and light and curious about most everything. Welcome to my journal of musings.

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