Chasing Clouds at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Heinrich Kuhn (Austrian, 1866-1944) - Mary Warner and Edeltrude on the Brow of a Hill, ca. 1908. Digital facsimile of original autochrome. Gilman Collection, Purchase, Mrs,. Walter Annenberg and the Annenberg Foundation Gift, 2005 (2005.100.370) * Sunday, 10:05 a.m.,...
The End of (Art) History? – The Brooklyn Rail – October 2026 issue launch – David Zwirner Gallery – NYC
Friday evening, October 2, 2026 - 6:30 p.m. - the spacious David Zwirner Gallery - NYC - Critics Page guest editor Natalia Gierowska eloquently and gracefully introduced the twelve essay-contributors to her provocative section of THE BROOKLYN RAIL on The (End) of Art...
Bloomfield Campus of Montclair State University, New Jersey – Opening Session – Reclaiming the Narrative – Centering Undertold Stories in Museums, Libraries and Academic Research
Thursday morning, October 1, 2026 - Westminster Hall, MSU Bloomfield Campus - 9:30 a.m. - Dr. Melissa Benbow Flowers, Scholar-in-Residence at Sprague Library of Montclair State University and Mellon Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow, American Conservation Experience,...
Memories of Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950-January 30, 2006) while watching An American Daughter at the Pershing Square Signature Center in NYC
Thursday evening, September 3, 2026 - Sitting in the audience at Irene Diamond Stage at Signature Theatre on West 42nd Street, I was ostensibly paying attention to the revival-revision by La Femme Theatre Productions of Wendy Wasserstein's 1997 play, An American...
A first glimpse behind the scenes in the spectacular new Martha Graham venue on the 11th floor at 1501 Broadway – The Paramount Building.
Friday, August 28, 2026 - 10:00 a.m. - With the director of the Martha Graham School, Ashley Brown, as my hyper-aware guide, I walked dizzily through the labyrinthine, astonishingly vast new Martha Graham studios, practice and conference rooms, administrative offices,...
Can it really be thirty years since my biography, Edison: Inventing the Century, was published…?
...and almost one hundred fifty years since Thomas A. Edison began his experimentation with the electric light? Marshall Fox, a reporter for the New York Herald, predicted that by the New Year, 1879, "The Wizard of Menlo Park, after 'nourishing a youth sublime/With...
Frederic Edwin Church & intimations of antiquity – Cotopaxi at the Detroit Institute of Arts
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A moment with a dear colleague at Jacob’s Pillow
Wednesday evening, August 12, 2026 - Blake's Barn - Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival - Becket, Massachusetts - My wife, Roberta (who took this picture) and I had half an hour to spare before the season premiere of The Martha Graham Dance Company on the McCain Stage of...
NB’s gifting of literary archival materials as of July 27, 2026
Creative Research Center & Danceaturgy Archives – 2010 and ff. - Donated June 2020 - Montclair State University Special Collections and University Archives – Contact – Paul Martinez - martinezp@montclair.edu and Denise O'Shea - oshead@montclair.edu Dance history...
David Hockney – July 9, 1937-June 11, 2026
May 18, 2026 - Serpentine North Gallery, Hyde Park, London - Strolling through the artist's ninety-meter, panoramic, labyrinthine, hall of mirrors, ravishingly technicolor visual journal of his Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts About Painting, I remember when...
Francesca Wade – joyous winner of the BIO Plutarch Award
Friday, May 29, 2026 - 2:30 p.m. - CUNY Graduate Center Auditorium - Her surprise was electric and her victory well-deserved. It was my pride and privilege to capture, from the first row, the captivating moment when -- to gasps of appreciation throughout the crowded...
Publisher & Artistic Director Phong H. Bui expressing his “cosmic optimism” to the delighted Charles Simonds…
..during the celebratory (and, as it soon transpired, serendipitous) party for the release of the May 2026 issue of The Brooklyn Rail at 15 Orient Gallery, on the third floor of 72 Walker Street in Tribeca. Phong took the occasion to "introduce" me to Charles;...