Blog Archive
The Age of Rembrandt
An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Kara Walker at The Whitney Museum of American Art
Don’t get excited if you really love The Old South.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Gerda Taro: A Woman, A War, A Rediscovered Photographer
Taro’s fame was swept aside by WW II and Robert Capa’s ascendancy as the emblematic war photographer. The International Center of Photography rights that wrong.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Stylized Sculpture: Contemporary Japanese Fashion from the Kyoto Costume Institute
An exhibit at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Sunday, November 18, 2007
The Great Cafés: Sabrett, New York City
Where West meets East, outside
Friday, November 16, 2007
Kitty Margolis: The Heart and Soul of A Jazz Singer (Part 4)
The fourth of a 4-part series.
Monday, October 1, 2007
Kitty Margolis: The Heart and Soul of A Jazz Singer (Part3)
The third of a 4-part series
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Kitty Margolis: The Heart and Soul of A Jazz Singer (Part 2)
The second of a 4-part series
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Kitty Margolis: The Heart and Soul of A Jazz Singer (Part 1)
The first of a 4-part series
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
The Great Iraq War Novel
It will come, and it will tell us the truth
Sunday, September 2, 2007
The Island at the Center of the World
Had things gone differently, we'd be having more Dutch treats
Thursday, August 16, 2007
A Santa Cruz Playboy
Synge's masterpiece in a masterful production
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Paul Poiret in New York
What high art can bring to beautiful shoulders
Friday, July 27, 2007
A Short Essay On Inanimate Objects
They can bring your fiction to life.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Richard Serra at MOMA New York
Eventually some artists find what matters
Sunday, July 1, 2007
E.A.T.
Better bring your pocketbook . . . or at least your riding crop
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Good Books and Good Ball
What Harriet Doerr, a fine novelist, owed to Bob Gibson, a fine pitcher
Friday, May 25, 2007
The Spanish Civil War
Or at least the part of it that was fought in the kitchen
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Good Fiction, Bad Fiction and The Oxford English Dictionary
"What do you read, my lord?," Polonius asks.
“Words . . ." says Hamlet.
Friday, May 11, 2007
Brice Marden at San Francisco MOMA
What happens when the artist believes his clippings
Saturday, April 28, 2007
How to Walk
There are a few things you have to learn before you can dance tango.
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Gotham
New York City is indisputably New York City, and this book tells you why.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
The Globalization of Feeling
It’s OK when you’re outsourcing. But how about in the way you express yourself?
Saturday, April 14, 2007
The Great Cafés: Café de La Presse, San Francisco
Here you get to converse with everybody who’s anybody
Thursday, April 5, 2007
The Great Cafés: Caffé Trieste, San Francisco
Ginsberg, Coffee, Obscenity and Poetry
Friday, March 30, 2007
The Great Cafes
There are some that simply transcend the very idea of a cafe.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
A Conversation with Horacio Ferrer
The librettist for Astor Piazzolla’s opera María de Buenos Aires talks about tango, The Golden Age and Astor himself
Monday, March 19, 2007
Tibet: Lost in the Himalayas
An American photographer who brought three children out
of Tibet talks about how the country's legendary spiritual
tradition is vanishing.
Friday, March 16, 2007 Photo: Samantha Weaver
Remembering Carlos Gavito
The great tango maestro, who died last year, gave us, more than anyone else, “la pinta”.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Le Grand Tango: The Life and Music of Astor Piazzolla,
By Maria Susana Azzi and Simon Collier.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
The Sweep Of A Delicate Toe
In Buenos Aires, two women -- with feet that once hurt them badly -- design and sell the most elegant and sought after dance shoes in the world.
Friday, March 9, 2007
