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 […]
Duplicity
Starring Julia Roberts, Clive Owen It is a pleasure to see Julia back on the silver screen after some absence, with the adjustment of handsome maturity advancing on glittering allure. There is something formulaic about the script, but it still has its own kind of corporate whodunit entertainment value. The overly intended chemistry between the […]