The last (discovered) painting by Leonardo da Vinci, has arrived in New York City and if you live within walking distance, or are a bicycle, train, bus or car ride away, you can come to our galleries in Rockefeller Center… Read the full article
Circling Georgia O’Keeffe’s beloved Cerro Pedernal, with Abiquiu Lake behind and Georgia’s Ghost Ranch beyond the Lake in the distance. This sliver of rock jutting out of the mountains was one of her favorite things to paint. I tried to… Read the full article
“My paintings have the rising forms of the vertical necessity of life dominating the horizon. For in such a land a man must stand upright, if he would live. And so born and became intrinsic this elemental characteristic of my… Read the full article
I got the last copy of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad at B’s & N’s yesterday.
When I travel, I prefer to take photos of people I randomly encounter, rather than of sites I visit. To be sure, I have photographed my share of monuments and parks and churches and bridges, and I imagine I always… Read the full article
Madison Square Park, Sunday, November 6, 2016. An almost impossibly beautiful Fall day in New York City. You can feel the blue of the sky, smell the chill in the air, hear the trumpet of the elephant. That is…if it… Read the full article
You haven’t had a burger until you’ve had a Sugar Burger. Somehow you have to get yourself to Embudo, New Mexico (some say Dixon, some say Velarde) beside the Rio Grande River between Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico to… Read the full article
I remember meeting Miriam (Miri) Dunn in the earliest days of G+. She would pop into one of my threads with a diverse array of moods – quick-witted, humorful, biting, kind, intelligent, strong, thoughtful…far too numerous to list. We shared many… Read the full article
In honor of Independence. Not the kind of independence that separates countries one from the other, but the kind of independence that celebrates clarity of self, autonomy of expression, release from influence, creative assertion and fluency, freedom of intellectual curiosity,… Read the full article
“I know these projects are totally irrational, totally useless. The world can live without them, nobody needs them, only me and Jeanne-Claude. She always made the point that they exist because we like to have them, and if others like… Read the full article
This leaves me breathless. May we have peace one day. Bless you Denis Labelle for this gift, this day, most particularly. #Tango #Dance #Orlando https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB-RS000NLs
I have been walking the streets of New York City since the day I moved here, never tiring of it, feeling its history deep in my bones, awed at the almost organic nature of its existence. In spite of the… Read the full article
What does it mean to be relevant?New?Hip?Of the moment?Au courant?Visionary?With it?Edgy?Young? None of these things means anything. Do not care about being young and hip and au courant and with it and edgy. Instead, grow old like Arthur Kern and… Read the full article
I love the intimacy of these gatherings. The appreciation dancers have for one another’s techniques, styles, steps. And of course the dresses and the shoes and the men’s suits. There is something that happens when partners dress up for one… Read the full article
There is much to be learned from communicating without speaking, using movement, music and the body to reach another. Last night I ‘watched’ the movie Casablanca by ‘listening’ to it instead of actually watching it. I was exercising on the… Read the full article
The philosophy Make Art, not War is one I grew up with. My parents were surrounded by artists, artists who worked obscurely at their crafts in the deserts of Northern New Mexico, artists who took a long time to make… Read the full article
“You’ve said that twice in the last 15 minutes,” my friend Hartley noted, watching me wolf down a spicy fish taco at Bill’s Burger Bar just off Rockefeller Plaza. “Said what twice?” I asked. “That you have two lives. You… Read the full article
This is the way I feel this morning. Smoky.
If you are an artist, inspiration can be found everywhere you turn. I designed these 18k rose gold weddings rings for pastry chefs, well known in Brooklyn (Dumbo and Cobble Hill) for their incredible cookies. Their store is One Girl… Read the full article
The Art of Standing in Meditation I learned to sit in Lotus Position, known as Padmasana, to meditate when I was 14. Crossing my legs in upon my thighs, one ankle over the other, folding my fingers into one of… Read the full article
Something a little dreamy
Under a mound of dirt you lay
I imagine a saxophone
Playing ‘Round Midnight
Maple trees line the road
Their shade saved for the living
While you lay beneath the blazing sun
As long as I’m in the Hip Hop Music Mood, or Mode, whichever you prefer, I might as well be in the Hip Hop Dance…
In the Summer of 2006, the day before I returned to New York after using my entire year’s vacation to study Italian at the Università per Stranieri in Siena, Italy, I took an early bus to Arezzo and spent the morning roaming the city taking pictures. After the cool early hours had morphed into lunchtime, I found a little trattoria on a small piazza where I could have a salad and a cold glass of Prosecco to ward off the heat that had begun to rise from the cobbled vicolos.
The Argentine Tango.
Attached is an optimistic article on Aducanumab, a new drug being developed by Biogen that (hopefully) shows the…
Good morning, everyone. After the Rain is a gorgeous Pas de Deux choreographed by the sublime Christopher Wheeldon. What if every couple were to approach one another – in every encounter – with the tenderness and sensitivity of husband and… Read the full article
…is in the air for all things in the natural world, along with a veritable sprouting up of things musical, theatrical, poetical and artistic, into which I immerse and disappear, wrapping myself up within, and winding myself ’round their various… Read the full article
This beautiful woman is Eileen Kramer. She is a choreographer and dancer. She is also 100 years old. I hope the beauty of her movements, the expressiveness of her hands, her arms…her body…are as inspiring to the Women of Google+… Read the full article
I watch the mesquite-scented smoke plume rise from the incense burner and remember Winters in the New Mexico desert.
I wait for the light. Everything is beautiful, but only in my room, not in Gaza. I’m ready to die in this room unless I find a better place. – Gaza Artist, Nidaa Badwan, of her more than 100 Days… Read the full article
Last Friday I posted a link to an Op-Ed piece written by Dr. Oliver Sacks an esteemed neurologist who has done a lot of work about the impact of music on the brain and the useful benefits of music therapy… Read the full article
Dance with yourself
It turns out that Doris Day, Bob Dylan and Emmy Rossum have something in common, which is an apparent appreciation…
I ought to have been born between the World Wars, when it was romantic to be sentimental, when having an attachment to the past was normal, when lovers would hand-write nostalgia-filled letters whenever apart, when taking a journey down a memory lane strewn with tales of adventures and friends and events long gone by could rouse a spontaneous and unembarrassed launch into Doris Day’s and Les Brown’s rendition of A Sentimental Journey.
When I was in high school I knew nothing of poetry, except a schoolgirl’s frustration at not being able to answer…
On the Upper West Side of New York, across town from my apartment, rage foments outside of the Metropolitan Opera’s…
“Certain things fall silent in us when we think that certain things are no longer possible.” – Frank Bidart, Poet,…
The Fogs of August
Lying heremy body feels like the Bell Tower in the Palazzo PubblicoStretching upwardto fly through the whiteLonging to reach the blueMy body a seed planted a foot beneath the soil,I can see a crack in the cobbled piazza stonesIf I could… Read the full article
I don’t watch much television, but these past few months I have looked forward to late Sunday nights with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey, an update of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which aired in 1980 to mesmerized viewing.
Standing on the barren landscape of what was once Uruk in ancient Sumer, now known as Iraq, in The Immortals (Episode 11 of the modernized series), Tyson tells us about Enheduanna, an Akkadian Princess (2285-2250 BCE) about whom I had never heard until The Immortals aired on May 18, 2014.
Lovers loving. Dancers dancing. Fountains rising and falling. At the ballet.
‘Twould appear this Sunday morning that March is wrestling with whether to remain a Lion, or to become a Lamb.
This ice dance between Meryl Davis and Charlie White is sublime.
Forgive my appearance, my Lady.
Women at work: Lyrical Confessions of an Erstwhile Renegade, my first essay as Editor-at-Large for SynaptIQ+: The Journal for Social Era Knowledge, was published online in the Winter 2013 issue.
“Had I spent my time trying to out-sex, out-nubile, out-Va Va Voom other girls and women?” – Giselle Minoli, Women…
There is something lovely that happens when you ask to take someone’s picture, instead of merely trying to capture a…
Saturday she appeared
My mother died of Alzheimer’s. My husband’s mother of vascular dementia. Tonight, on behalf of everyone who knows someone with Alzheimer’s or a related dementia, I share with you a letter I received from Berna Huebner, co-Director with Eric Ellena of… Read the full article
Every evening I must weigh
A Woman’s Worth was published online in the August 2013 issue of SynaptIQ+: The Journal for Social Era Knowledge.
There must be a way
Morning, everyone
We are lying on our backs looking up into the pastel-hued interior of The Guggenheim spiral.
What would come to mind if I were to ask each of you what inspires you?
This morning
Splendid Isolation is the choreographer Jessica Lang’s dance tribute to the marriage between Gustav Mahler, the…
You don’t really see me
In a garden there are manners.
An exquisitely choreographed dance between a man and a woman.
Evening, Thursday, 6:30pm EST.
The news did not exactly come as a shock. I had filed away the possibility that his life would end one day in the part of my brain reserved for things I simply did not want to think about happening. A less willful, less stubborn, less enthusiastically alive man would have long ago succumbed to the many illnesses he had endured over the last 2 decades. His ability to push back had convinced me that nothing could kill him. An email in mid-March relaying that he was in hospice care switched on the emotional regulator that controlled my reservoir of memories about him, sending through a few at a time, as though dropping them into my consciousness in a metered manner would avoid a flood tide the day he finally decided to part this Earth.
Red, Yellow and BlueRope Art, by Orly Genger Sublime, and many other things… Happy Memorial Day Weekend everyone… P.S. In case you are interested, here is a link to a New York Times article on this inventive artist. I wish… Read the full article
A length of leg.
Five Talented Dancers + an Empty Warehouse + the Countryside + a Video Camera x the Human Condition = Gravity of Center, a choreographed site specific conversation between 3 men and 2 women. It’s impossible to explore this kind of… Read the full article
While it might still be Spring (okay, Summer…) in my life, it is Fall in the life of the fabulous Elaine Stritch. She is the doyenne of Broadway, an actress, performer, singer, raconteur without peer, in my view. She is… Read the full article
Cheers, everyone
I wrote A Woman’s De-Liberation: There Never Was a Sexual Revolution in stupefied disbelief that Sheryl Sandberg, the successful and highly educated woman at the COO helm of the legendary FaceBook, would write Lean In, a modern feminist call-to-arms, in which she essentially claims that women, individually and collectively, are not occupying their rightful place at the top of the business world next to men because they do not know how to use their negotiating skills to their professional advantage.
This assertion flies in the face of what I have personally witnessed in business over the course of the last 35 years of my life, during which time I have seen scores of brilliant, visionary and highly assertive women be turned down repeatedly for seats at the top for reasons that have nothing to do with their lack of skill or their unwillingness to be assertive, and everything to do with the massive support structure that men provide one another…a support structure that is unavailable to women because there simply are not enough of them in top management to provide a supportive structure for other women coming up the ladder.
…Except that when the artist painted in obscurity his entire life in a small 8×8 foot studio and was therefore completely unknown his art cannot possibly become political or erotic or mystical. Unless his trove of thousands of paintings narrowly… Read the full article
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