Surveying our ecletic arts scene, from the galleries to the stage.
The Star-Telegram arts writers spotlight what's rocking their world this week.
1 Art Healing Ministry: Conceptual artist Alexander Melamid opened the Art Healing Ministry in New York City's SoHo neighborhood this past week, selling art-based treatment programs to cure what ails ya. After an art evaluation where old master works are projected on your torso, Melamid offers treatment programs that might include a Brancusi Slimming Visualization or a Seurat Facial Skin Rejuvenation. He also prescribes visits to areas of local museums for whole-body healing experiences. His five-step programs will be available through June. www.arthealingministry.org
-- Gaile Robinson
2 Diabolique: The Criterion Collection on Blu-ray/DVD: Director Alfred Hitchcock famously lost out to French auteur Henri-Georges Clouzot for the rights to Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac's novel She Who Was No More, the basis for this 1955 nail-biter. (Hitch did OK, though; he was inspired to make Psycho as a result.) Still, few vintage suspense films still have the capacity to shock as much as Diabolique, now available digitally remastered on Blu-ray or DVD from the reliably stellar Criterion Collection. Supplements include commentary and an essay by film critic Terrence Rafferty.
-- Preston Jones
3 My Morning Jacket, Circuital: The Kentucky rockers, led by the otherworldly vocals of frontman/principal songwriter Jim James, unleash their first full-length CD in three years Tuesday. It is the seven-minute-plus title track, built upon a deceptively simple, loping riff, that all but sums up the band's steady rise from experimenters on the fringe to one of America's great rock bands: "Well, anyway you cut it/We're just spinning around," James sings, "Heading right back in the same place/That we started out." After getting lost in this lovingly crafted record, fans and neophytes alike will find themselves nodding in fervent agreement.
-- Preston Jones
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