by Neil | Jan 1, 2026 | news
Thrilled at all the well-deserved attention for director Mona Fastvold’s sensational new film, The Testament of Ann Lee, starring the luminous and daring Amanda Seyfried, her frenzied devotional swirlings bringing an 18th century religious icon to life —...
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 | Sep 28, 2025 | Events, news
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 | May 14, 2022 | news
The security guard in Christie’s lobby last Thursday told me where to find the pre-auction viewing for The Surrealist World of Rosalind Gersten Jacobs & Melvin Jacobs. He motioned to the left, saying “go through the keyhole,” an arched liminal cutout into a...
