January 31, 2004
Mexico Pictures
We're in Mexico City. It's glorious! While I don't expect to be posting text while we are here [too distracted], I think I will be able to regularly put uncaptioned images in this gallery. Captions when we return, I...
January 27, 2004
Mexico
Diego Rivera, detail from mural in the Palacio Nacional, Mexico City We'll both be away for about a week, on our first visit to Mexico City, so posting is likely to be interrupted. Sweet Pea will stay home in...
January 25, 2004
Tyson Reeder's Milwaukee
Tyson and his parents His first solo show in New York was an attraction both for the work and for the smart, beautiful crowd Tyson Reeder was able to attract to the Daniel Reich Gallery on one of the...
EAT
Palacinka, inside out A wonderful ambience, and good simple food, a world away from Soho - we love Palacinka, and we're fussy. Nice people and a mellow style go a long way, in this case for just about any...
January 24, 2004
stay away from televison, kids!
Clarabel Clarabel died on Friday! Most of the people reading this won't even remember Captain Kangaroo, but for me Bob Keeshan will always be most important as the mischievous and arch Clarabel the Clown on the Howdy Doody Show....
for the love of it all
Becky Smith Friday's NYTimes "Weekend/Fine Arts" section has some great pleasures, almost without any guilt, for those of us who can't just surround ourselves with enough stuff about art. In two long, illustrated front-page articles on the newer New...
January 23, 2004
more on what we would lose
Dean Street [see yesterday's "replacing people with a basketball court"] New facts are emerging about the political and money deals behind the project, and about the vibrant community which woud be destroyed if an "eminent" real estate mogul gets...
Faust hanging a little longer
Yeaaa! I've just heard that Target Margin has extended the run of "These Very Serious Jokes". New, additional, dates: On Sunday there is a performance at 7pm and from Tuesday, Jan 27, until Saturday, Jan 31, the shows will begin...
January 22, 2004
peanuts nebula
untitled January 21, 2004 My own little camera is spending two weeks in the camera hospital, so the images have been few and far between lately. I borrow Barry's sturdy Canon occasionally....
"replacing people for a basketball court"
Big money interests, not least the NYTimes, want to displace families, artisans and artists, and in fact physically destroy an entire Brooklyn community, in order to build a commercial sports arena. Our friend Charles Goldman once lived in a...
Target Margin's "Lord of the Rings"*
Faust (Will Badgett) studies Mephistopheles (David Greenspan) Goethe's back, and Faust is with him. Ok, they never really left, except that some of us thought we could ignore them now. David Herskovits, Douglas Langworthy and Target Margin Theater are...
January 19, 2004
we already have our memorials, and they're repulsive
I've surprised even myself by not writing more about the various September 11 design proposals, now narrowed down to a mall dominated by a "Freedom Tower" and crying walls and wells "Reflecting Absence". But I'm not going to start now....
team spirit smells
From a Deborah Solomon interview with Wallace Shawn in Sunday's NYTimes Magazine":[The brilliant, solidly- Lefty author had just admitted that while he had no use for musicals, he was nevertheless very fond of "American popular songs in the cabaret tradition".]...
January 18, 2004
liberty up in smoke?
Langston, outside Smart, generally progressive people should know better than to use their power and privilege to champion their personal addictions, especially ones which threaten their own lives and the lives of those who have to be around them....
even fools aren't safe in a fool's world
Could there be a more damning indictment of the intelligence of most Americans than the figures reported in the latest poll? Despite those vulnerabilities [figures showing doubts about his economic and other domestic policies], which the Democratic presidential candidates...
January 15, 2004
"saints"
Tom Hurndall He's gone. I had actually thought that he had died last April, but Thomas Hurndall had survived in a vegetative state until this week, when he succumbed to pneumonia in a London hospital. He had turned 22...
January 11, 2004
January 9, 2004
everyone moving on
A friend of ours, Lothar Albrecht, is opening a third branch of his very interesting Frankfurt art gallery in Beijing next month. Until we received the announcement in the mail today, we had understood the new venue was going...
January 8, 2004
"a nation of politics"
Barry observed today that of course the White House knows neither Republicans nor Democrats want this thing, and it will never make it through Congress, but Bush hopes to use its political capital in November. [thanks to Yahoo! and...
January 7, 2004
old art
Except that it isn't old at all. We went to the Metropolitan today to visit El Greco's work. This awesome unfinished late masterpiece was there: El Greco, The Opening of the Fifth Seal of the Apocalypse (1608-1614) This much earlier...
January 6, 2004
fallen angels
New York City firefighter Robert Walsh has been on a respirator in a medically-induced coma in a Staten Island hospital since Thursday. Today he still lies heavily sedated, suffering the consequences of severe facial fractures and a partly severed...
January 5, 2004
racism? it's very patriotic right now
greetings! the full Yahoo! caption reads:Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Tom Ridge (L) speaks with airline passenger Gloria Quevedo (R) of Chile as she is fingerprinted by Customs and Border Protection Officer Mary Armbrust at Hartsfield-Jackson International...
January 2, 2004
January 1, 2004
the New Year in balloons
West 23rd Street, January 1, 2004 Woke up late this morning. This is the first thing I saw outside the parlor windows. Not a bad start for a new year. Wishing all a happier one than any of us...
