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
I was fortunate to see the original production of Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind at the Promenade Theatre in New York. When I first moved here, Shepard and David Mamet and Lanford Wilson were turning the NYC theatre… Read the full article
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
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
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
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
This is the way I feel this morning. Smoky.
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
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…
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 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
It was from Dr. Sacks that I first learned about the magical, powerful, emotional and complex impact that music can have on our brains – that music is pre-lingual, that it can reach and stimulate areas of feeling and communication… Read the full article
Dance with yourself
On the Upper West Side of New York, across town from my apartment, rage foments outside of the Metropolitan Opera’s…
There is a serious downside to the Internet and this is one of them. What? Beheading is now the new “vogue” terrorism device, replacing the ever-boring AK-47, the old-fashioned suicide bomber, and the Oh So Ho Hum car bomber? What… Read the full article
As a matter of practical reality, I began working for money outside my mother’s home at 14, and I haven’t stopped working since. Hmmm…… Childhood is a fairly recent economic innovation. For most of recorded history, a vast majority of… Read the full article
Lovers loving. Dancers dancing. Fountains rising and falling. At the ballet.
I hardly know where to begin deconstructing some of the lunacy in the attached article about why girls are doing…
NOTE: Dear Men: was originally published on my Google+ blog, and I have chosen to import it here because of its relevance to the #MeToo movement. I’ve been blogging on G+ since the second week of its existence, and from the… Read the full article
This ice dance between Meryl Davis and Charlie White is sublime.
Google, Tell Me.
I do not understand one single thing about this convicted murderer’s execution in Ohio today.
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
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?
Splendid Isolation is the choreographer Jessica Lang’s dance tribute to the marriage between Gustav Mahler, the…
An exquisitely choreographed dance between a man and a woman.
“I want to be alone. I just want to be alone” – Greta Garbo, Grand Hotel
So what is the purpose of men in modern families?
A friend recently confessed that she didn’t think she could ever write nonfiction, which is highly personal, because…
It is articles like this one that are killing the sexual desire of women.
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.
‘Scuse me, but this statement is wholly absurd: “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place,” said Eric Schmidt, then Google’s chief executive, in 2009. First, the… Read the full article
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
James Barraford I, too, along with many people I know, am in complete agreement with your dismay at our cry for an Execution, Off With His Head And Let’s Be Done With It demeanor. Yes, 9/11 was the tidal turn for… Read the full article
Morning
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
Hello, everyone
…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
I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan – and never, ever let you forget you’re a man, ’cause I’m a woman.
To Censor or Not to Censor the Internet, for Some This is the Question… and this morning, for better or worse, I reveal my own conflicts about the much discussed issue of censorship, freedom of speech and expression on the… Read the full article
My friend Kena Herod got me reminiscing about all of the African American dancers I admire with her recent post…
How bizarre that at the end of a musician’s long day – of practicing and perfecting their craft – they might have to…
0 degrees and another glorious sunrise, which began with deep orange-red, turned redder, faded to rose-pink, then pale yellow and lifted soon enough to a white light. Your sun, wherever you are, has been or will be the same, but… Read the full article
Stealing is stealing, whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or…
“I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
Ho Ho Ho! Nizhonigo Keshmish Baahózhó Doo Nínanahí, as the Navajos would say…
Good morning, everyone
Morning, everyone
Do Less and Let the Music Shine
Presidential Election Eve, 2012
Greetings Googlers…
Hello, everyone, post-Felix Baumgartner jump and mid- Dallas/Baltimore game
Good morning new lovers, young lovers, old lovers…
It’s Sunday, and I’m inspired by the work of other artists. And today it’s the witty, sweet and whacky William Wegman, who has made an entire career out of taking pictures of his dogs. It all started with one named… Read the full article
Is it just me or is the push to find a “drug cure,” as opposed to focusing on protecting our health on a day-to-day basis, off the mark? My mother died from complications of Alzheimer’s. This is the lingo…my… Read the full article
Sitting here with a morning quadruple shot caffe latte reading the New York Times (some of us still do that) and came across this charming story about artist Shantell Martin, who lives in Brooklyn with generous friends who allow her… Read the full article
If you are anywhere near Philadelphia… Get Thee to the Barnes Foundation, to see the rather incredible collection amassed by Albert C. Barnes and always housed, until now, in the original mansion he built for his works of art by… Read the full article
Might you be feeling a little paranoid today, like the Light-Footed Clapper Rail? Maybe you have said something you wish you hadn’t, like the Mandrill? Or are you confused about which direction is really up, as is the Caribbean Flamingo?… Read the full article
I’ve been traveling a lot and working. I haven’t been in touch as much as I want to be, and I have missed people’s posts that are important. But so many of you have been kind and stayed in touch… Read the full article
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