A first glimpse behind the scenes in the spectacular new Martha Graham venue on the 11th floor at 1501 Broadway – The Paramount Building.
Friday, August 28, 2026 - 10:00 a.m. - With the director of the Martha Graham School, Ashley Brown, as my hyper-aware guide, I walked dizzily through the labyrinthine, astonishingly vast new Martha Graham studios, practice and conference rooms, administrative offices,...
Can it really be thirty years since my biography, Edison: Inventing the Century, was published…?
...and almost one hundred fifty years since Thomas A. Edison began his experimentation with the electric light? Marshall Fox, a reporter for the New York Herald, predicted that by the New Year, 1879, "The Wizard of Menlo Park, after 'nourishing a youth sublime/With...
Frederic Edwin Church & intimations of antiquity – Cotopaxi at the Detroit Institute of Arts
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A moment with a dear colleague at Jacob’s Pillow
Wednesday evening, August 12, 2026 - Blake's Barn - Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival - Becket, Massachusetts - My wife, Roberta (who took this picture) and I had half an hour to spare before the season premiere of The Martha Graham Dance Company on the McCain Stage of...
NB’s gifting of literary archival materials as of July 27, 2026
Creative Research Center & Danceaturgy Archives – 2010 and ff. - Donated June 2020 - Montclair State University Special Collections and University Archives – Contact – Paul Martinez - martinezp@montclair.edu and Denise O'Shea - oshead@montclair.edu Dance history...
David Hockney – July 9, 1937-June 11, 2026
May 18, 2026 - Serpentine North Gallery, Hyde Park, London - Strolling through the artist's ninety-meter, panoramic, labyrinthine, hall of mirrors, ravishingly technicolor visual journal of his Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts About Painting, I remember when...
Francesca Wade – joyous winner of the BIO Plutarch Award
Friday, May 29, 2026 - 2:30 p.m. - CUNY Graduate Center Auditorium - Her surprise was electric and her victory well-deserved. It was my pride and privilege to capture, from the first row, the captivating moment when -- to gasps of appreciation throughout the crowded...
Publisher & Artistic Director Phong H. Bui expressing his “cosmic optimism” to the delighted Charles Simonds…
..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 Charles;...
Melding two great dance companies to unleash one epic work by Anna Sokolow
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 Hall,1965, with music...
Graham100 GALA @ The New York Public Library Celeste Bartos Forum – April 17, 2026
What an inspiration! - to witness and applaud the All-City Panorama set by Teens @ Graham Director Amelie Benard - a magnificently energized testimony to the Martha Graham Company's future-facing legacy on the eve of the Centennial - a pivotal look - back at the...
William Carlos Williams, MD, delivered three thousand babies. I finally met one of them.
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...
“It is difficult/to get the news from poems” – a lesson from William Carlos Williams
On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs - by Renee Nicole (Macklin) Good i want back my rocking chairs, solipsist sunsets, & coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of cockroaches. i’ve donated bibles to thrift stores...