Art, Film, Photography
The Hidden Paw
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Julius Caesar Act 1…
The Art Bombing World of the Cat
It's been a bit quiet on the R and R front this Fall but I've not been entirely idle. I…
On the Seashore of Endless Worlds
In 1913, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore "because of his profoundly sensitive,…
Art and the Garden
If you are in New York City and looking for a outing here's a suggestion: Wave Hill Garden in the…
The Pineapple Party
Norman Pearson returned towards the end of January, after an absence in Spain and Portugal, bearing two bananas, two oranges…
The Rise and Fall of Spurious George
Two centuries after William Hogarth published his engravings of the decline and fall of Tom Rakewell, Rebecca West wrote a…
Literal Nazis and the Retro-transing of History
Researching Marienbad and the Savoy led me to Erika Mann and all the gossip, scandal, politics, and drama of her…
Water and Light Part Two: C19th Danish Art
The third destination of our Met Museum art extravaganza was Beyond the Light - Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish…
Water and Light
A wander crosstown to the Met with a destination. Or rather three. The first - Water Memories - explores water’s significance…
January, The Election, and A White Cat
Poems by Charles Simic (1938-2023) January Children’s fingerprints On a frozen window Of a small schoolhouse. An empire, I read…