Paul Auster (1947-2024)

Paul Auster (1947-2024)

Reading Paul Auster's obituary this morning in The New York Times, I recall him as a gifted, elegant, cosmopolitan comrade and writer in the late 1970s, when my wife and I were starting a new life in Brooklyn Heights and Paul came over to our place for Roberta's...

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The Rite of Spring transforms the Martha Graham Studio

The Rite of Spring transforms the Martha Graham Studio

Thursday evening, March 13, 8:00 p.m., at 55 Bethune Street, 11th floor - The Martha Graham dancers introduce themselves after an incandescent, primal, thunderous, airborne, simultaneously rough-hewn and liquid rehearsal performance. Graham's 1984 re-vision of...

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MARTHA in Madrid

MARTHA in Madrid

Thanks as always to eagle-eyed Leslie Andrea Williams, on tour in Spain with the Martha Graham Dance Company, for spotting my book at the Biblioteca y Centro de Documentacion - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia.

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ART FOR THE MILLIONS – from the curator’s perspective

ART FOR THE MILLIONS – from the curator’s perspective

What a privilege to spend an instructive hour at The Metropolitan Museum of Art with Allison Rudnick, Associate Curator, Drawings and Prints, guiding me through her thoughtfully-mounted exhibition resonating with the social conscience, iconoclasm and raw energy of...

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