Continue Reading Art on the Road: PAAM Let’s face it: when I visit a museum showing contemporary art these days I might be challenged, made to think, dumb-founded, or…
Continue Reading 46 Years It has been 46 years yesterday since the murder of Victor Jara by the Chilean military police. The singer who put Neruda’s…
Continue Reading Traversing NYC The best way to explore NYC is, of course, on foot. When that becomes too much, you can explore alternatives. I’d…
Continue Reading The Big Orange Time to rename the Big Apple – if only for the month of September. Orange ruled on the streets, walls and windows…
Continue Reading Uptown Stroll Care to go for a little walk – or, in truth, a rather long one? Let’s start as far uptown as I…
Continue Reading Art on the Road: The Whitney Biennial 2019 Sometimes I wonder if I am actually visiting the same exhibits that I have read about in the mainstream reviews. Take the…
Continue Reading Art on the Road: Hudson Yards, NYC Hudson Yards, the twenty-five-billion-dollar, twenty-eight-acre new development in what used to be the Meat Packing district is probably the most artificial site…
Continue Reading In Flight I have few words of my own to offer today, so that there is more time to read the words in the…
Continue Reading Mood Lighting Wouldn’t you know it. One of the kindest, least vain and most talented of my photographer friends is having a show opening…
Continue Reading This is Maryhill Museum The Exquisite Gorge Project Woodblock print by Ken Spiering (Detail) “Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions;…
