Christian Science World Headquarters Massachusetts Avenue, Boston Relatives were in town for the Presidents’ Day weekend and we ventured over to the Mapparium at the Christian Science World Headquarters in Boston. It’s a tourist site and one might argue that it doesn’t exactly belong in an arts diary, but, to tell the truth, I find […]
Bill Knott’s Poetry
Bill Knott, Laugh at the End of the World: Collected Comic Poems 1969-1999 (2000, Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, Ltd. ) Recovering from jet lag, I found myself up in the wee hours and decided to crack open the poetry of Boston-area-based Bill Knott. I’d read many of these poems some time ago, but it was […]
Tufts University Art Gallery
Exposure/Aftermath Workshop: Aymer, India (Rajasthan) Questions Without Answers: A Photographic Prism of World Events, 1985-2010 (runs 1/21/2010 – 4/4/2010) Saya Woolfalk, The Institute for the Analysis of Empathy (runs 1/21/2010 – 4/4/2010) Politically and topically inspired photography can easily rush to a place where the eyes become overwrought and don’t see with the sensitivity that […]
Storm King Art Center
Mountainville, NY I wanted to take my 12 year old nephew for a hike somewhere in the Westchester-Putnam-Rockland area, and thought that mixing it up with a bit of art might go down ok, so I proposed we go to Storm King. I had last been there about ten years ago and remembered enjoying it […]
Tosca
Music by Giacomo Puccini Metropolitan Opera New York, NY There was so much negative press about this new production, I feared the worst. In the end, I was pleasantly surprised. The big complaint, from what I read, was that the sets were too spare and the staging was too restrained. I did not have that […]