by Neil | May 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
..during the celebratory (and, as it soon transpired, serendipitous) party for the release of the May 2026 issue of The Brooklyn Rail at 15 Orient Gallery, on the third floor of 72 Walker Street in Tribeca. Phong took the occasion to “introduce” me to...
by Neil | Apr 25, 2026 | Uncategorized
11:30 a.m., Friday, April 24, 2026 – in the ninth floor studio of Ballet Hispanico on West 89th Street – bearing witness to a transcendent offering, ODES by Anna Sokolow (Tel Aviv Lyric Theatre 1964, with music by A.U.Boskovich; Juilliard Concert...
by Neil | Feb 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
Thursday evening, February 26, 2026, The Black Box Theatre, Columbia High School, Maplewood. I was introducing myself to the audience for my talk on William Carlos Williams, the first in a series called In, Around, About…Essex County 2026, presented by the South...
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...
