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 […]
Peter Serkin
Pianist Longy School of Music Ut, re mi, fas sol, la John Bull Six Epigraphes Antiques Claude Debussy Suite in C minor for Lute cembalo, BMV 997 J.S. Bach Variations and Fugue in B-flat on a Theme by Handel, Opus 24 Johannes Brahms The first time I saw Peter Serkin was in about 1973 in […]