by Neil | Oct 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
October 1, 2025 – My first invitation to join Phong Bui and likeminded friends — and he says it best: “The Beauty of Friends Being Together: What a joy to see our brilliant friends the other day at Rail HQ in Greenpoint where I hosted a another...
by Neil | Sep 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
Friday, September 26, 2025, 9:30 a.m. – What an extraordinary privilege, thanks to the friendly generosity of Carol Shuster-Polakoff and Phong H. Bui, to bear witness to Man Ray: When Objects Dream, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through February 1,...
by Neil | Aug 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
“I talked to Linda Hodes and she would be delighted to meet with you,” renowned Martha Graham Company veteran and founder of the UC Berkeley Dance department Marni Wood told me on June 10, 2014. Marni and I had chatted over coffee (at her favorite spot,...
by Neil | Mar 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
A poem worth pondering, chosen in a time bearing witness to the invasion and destruction of our institutions. In the essay collection The Witness of Poetry (1983), Milosz stresses the importance of Poland’s cultural heritage and history in shaping his work. “My...
by Neil | Feb 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
Into my seventh decade as a published author/editor/critic. Books and little magazines and manuscripts and photographs and ephemera on the 3rd floor have been building up, containing multitudes. It feels like forever that I’ve been talking to friends and family...
