by Neil | Dec 7, 2025 | news
Thursday afternoon – December 4 – Gagosian – 522 West 21st Street – NYC. I’ve lost track of the number of times I have seen the work of Richard Serra. One memory leaps to mind: A sunny afternoon in May, 2007, I am walking east from Sixth...
by Neil | Dec 2, 2025 | news, TOM STOPPARD
November 29, 2025 – Recalling with melancholy and exultation the life and works of Tom Stoppard, who died today, I thought of the production of ARCADIA that the Department of Theatre & Dance presented sixteen years ago at Montclair State University, directed...
by Neil | Nov 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
…and indeed, emerging from the elevator at the Jewish Museum in NYC at mid-day on Friday, November 14, 2025, I came face to face with this striking piece by Christian Boltanski (1944-2021) — an artist I have admired over four decades for his elegaic,...
by Neil | Oct 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
Wednesday evening, October 22, 2025 – On the occasion of the third anniversary of the publication of MARTHA GRAHAM – WHEN DANCE BECAME MODERN what a delight to speak at the venerable Salmagundi Club/Coffee House, in animated conversation with my editor at...
by Neil | Oct 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
Saturday, October 11. 2025, mid-day. My bemused friend and literary comrade Amanda Vaill is seen here poised to sign copies of her new book, Pride and Pleasure – The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution at the Morristown (N.J.) Festival of Books, where she...
