ART FOR THE MILLIONS – from the curator’s perspective

by Neil | Oct 11, 2023 | Uncategorized

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...

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day – remembering a long-ago visit to the Yucatan

by Neil | Oct 9, 2023 | Uncategorized

February 2, 1988 – We emerged from our subterranean adventure in the Caves of Loltun in the Puuc region south of Oxkutzcab, met the artist Vicente Chable Canul, and talked with him about the fieldwork for my book in progress, Legends of the Plumed Serpent. He...

MARTHA dances at The MET – beauty in the eyes of the beholders

by Neil | Oct 8, 2023 | Uncategorized

2:05 p.m., Saturday, October 7, 2023 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art – The American Wing – Charles Engelhard Court. Art for the Millions – Radical Dance for the People – takes flight as Xin Ying, Principal Dancer of the Martha Graham...

Three dance luminaries grace the opening for the monumental BORDER CROSSINGS exhibition at The NYPL for the Performing Arts

by Neil | Sep 28, 2023 | Uncategorized

What a delight to run into Limon Dance Company versatile veteran Daniel Fetecua, Martha Graham Company premiere danseuse alumna, the ever-luminous Blakeley White-McGuire and brilliantly ascendant Limon Company member Nicholas Ruscica last night among the hundreds in...

A must-see – MARTHA at the Met – ART FOR THE MILLIONS opens Thursday, September 7th

by Neil | Sep 6, 2023 | Uncategorized

“That girl, who was myself, is seeing a great landscape — untrammeled,” Martha Graham said of Frontier: American Perspective of the Plains (1935), her first collaboration with Isamu Noguchi, now gloriously and ecstatically on view at the welcoming...