Half a century ago, when I was living in Buffalo, N.Y., having labored for a PhD in Modern American Poetry, I launched a "little magazine" (as we called them back then) The Niagara Magazine, that I edited and published for eight years. The Premier Issue, Summer 1974,...

Reading Paul Auster's obituary this morning in The New York Times, I recall him as a gifted, elegant, cosmopolitan comrade and writer in the late 1970s, when my wife and I were starting a new life in Brooklyn Heights and Paul came over to our place for Roberta's...

Wednesday evening, April 17th - Martha Graham - When Dance Became Modern front and center at the Company's merchandise stand in City Center lobby.

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At The NYPL for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter Auditorium, Wednesday, October 25, 2023 - Wendy Perron and Muna Tseng share their exploratory scholarship and embodied experience in a revelatory discussion of Michio Ito's...

Thanks as always to eagle-eyed Leslie Andrea Williams, on tour in Spain with the Martha Graham Dance Company, for spotting my book at the Biblioteca y Centro de Documentacion - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia.

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...