Continue Reading Ways to preserve – Nrityotsava 2019 Kalabharati School of Dance I could have kicked myself. Here I am friends with one of the most formidable dance critics around, ArtsWatch’s…
Continue Reading Ways to remember Yesterday was Holocaust Remembrance Day, and my inbox was filled with a frightful variety of reminders. Much of it from Germany which…
Continue Reading Birdseye View This week was mostly devoted to how to find things that are lost or stolen: archeological treasures, land, art. The academic discussion…
Continue Reading Vision “So brave you’re crazy.” That is the meaning of the last name of poet Joy Harjo, a member of the Muscogee (Creek)…
Continue Reading The Sleuthing Eye Maybe in my next life I’ll be an art detective. Mystery! Adventure! Travel! Righting Wrongs! Call me Indiana Heuer, anytime…. This was brought…
Continue Reading Perspective A plume of smoke, visible at a distanceIn which people burn.—George Oppen Plumes Love, can I call you that, you called me that the…
Continue Reading Point of View Last week I visited a traveling exhibit at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry which displayed, quite beautifully, a replica of…
Continue Reading For Real: Blue Tooth Two years ago the Getty Center in LA showed a collection of illuminated manuscripts with a focus on what they could tell…
Continue Reading Psst! Wunderkammer! Too late. The exhibit closes in 4 days. Well, not really too late, since I wouldn’t travel to Hungary in any case,…
Continue Reading Caution, falling illusions. There are people who hint that they face dangers while pursuing their job or their passions, and then there are people who…
