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
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
How’s your handwriting? That is, if you’re not laughing by now…I mean, who writes anything by hand any more? Personally, I wish I never had to, because my handwriting is horrendous, worse than a doctor’s. I suffered early childhood trauma,… 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
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.
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
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 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
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
It turns out that Doris Day, Bob Dylan and Emmy Rossum have something in common, which is an apparent appreciation…
Studies have shown that writing about oneself and personal experiences can improve mood disorders, help reduce…
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…
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
“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
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…
I did not grow up with money, but I was a smart kid and got scholarships to attend top notch schools with other kids who did grow up with a lot of money. During my high school and college years… Read the full article
Perhaps that’s why we see so much vitriol online, so many anonymous, bitter comments, so many imprudent tweets and…
‘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.
Google, Tell Me.
I do not understand one single thing about this convicted murderer’s execution in Ohio today.
“Had I spent my time trying to out-sex, out-nubile, out-Va Va Voom other girls and women?” – Giselle Minoli, Women…
My connections and friendships with other writers on Google+ are two of my favorite things about this platform.
They told me a long time ago, they didn’t like me and I would never get it.
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
There must be a way
Morning
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…
I haven’t read Mason Currey’s Daily Rituals, from which Marnie Hanel created This by That: Writers by Daily Starting…
You don’t really see me
In a garden there are manners.
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…
Evening, Thursday, 6:30pm EST.
It is articles like this one that are killing the sexual desire of women.
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