Thursday, April 30, 2020

Germano Celant: Art Historian Who Defined “ Arte Povera” Contemporary Italian Art Movement Dead at 80

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The widely influential Italian art historian, critic, and curator Germano Celant, who coined the term Arte Povera to describe the radically...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Magazzino Italian Art: Contemporary Italian Art in the Hudson Valley

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Artnet.com interview with Magazzino Italiano Art Executive Director Vittorio Calabrese, the Hudson Valley’s newest, most vibrant, contempora...
Wednesday, July 10, 2019

The Marriage of Figaro: From Vienna with Love (By Way of the Borscht Belt)

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There's the opera buffa-- as reflected in the comedy of life, say, in NYC during the dog days of summer-- and then there's the ...
Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Bob Dylan: The Beaten Path

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Bob Dylan has released another set of signed prints of his work based on his travels. Notable are several from Brooklyn Heights area. T...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

James Turrell At Mass MoCA

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James Turrell’s “Hind Sight” (1984), at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MassMoCA), North Adams, MA: “the viewer proceeds thr...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

Romeo & Juliet (adapted in a Jewish-style) at the American Sephardi Federation/Center for Jewish History

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Singer, composer, impresario David Serero's latest work, a Jewish adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, is ...
Thursday, February 23, 2017

American Journalism in the Era ofFacebook, President Trump and Red Ink

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Reflections:  Does Facebook and other social media corporations play a role in the proliferation of fake news ? And if so, do these mega-ric...
Thursday, February 2, 2017

NYC:GroundhogDay

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Missing from the action was Mayor Bill deBlasio, who, having failed in his commitments to Animal-loving Real Estate Moguls seeking to elimin...
Thursday, December 22, 2016

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Monday, October 31, 2016

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A Real Brooklyn Ghost Story A true story first posted here in 2007. Back in the day, well, sometime in the 1980s, when Reagan was as far-out...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

West Hartford CT Halloween Display Makes Political Statement

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Saturday, September 10, 2016

Emotional Resonances of 9/11, Before and Beyond

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Spiritual, prophetic and emotional as ever.. Bob Dylan's "Cold Irons Bound" from Masked and Anonymous... "Waist deep in t...
Sunday, July 10, 2016

Pollock and Krasner at The Springs

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Jackson Pollock - Lee Krasner Home/Studio and Study Center Historic Site, Springs, NY

Many Rivers to Cross Before Healing Can Take Place

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From The Dallas Morning News: Truths for any city: " This city, our city, has been tested before. Now we face a new test. More than 50 ...
Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Yeah, It is Amazing-- Hamilton

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Beyond all expectations-- groundbreaking Richard Rodgers Theatre  -  New York ,  NY  -  Wed, Jun 29, 2016 Having rec'd tix for my birthd...