As many of you know, my favorite methods for having a nervous breakdown include migraines and panic attacks. Yesterday, with no warning I could note, my bedroom, where I was peacefully watching “The Cat Whisperer” with my cat, became a very frightening place. Even the bathroom down the hall was much too scary a place […]
Read More Cobra and PeacockA couple of months ago, I was on the subway, and in a classic liberal fashion, I was talking out my guilt to some innocent bystander, and I said, “I don’t think we should teach about the Holocaust any more.” What I meant, I realize now, was: “I can’t teach about the Holocaust. I can’t […]
Read More Young AmericanThis is what I knew: 1. Most of the artists I love best were “discovered” in America at the Armory Show in 1913. 2. It cost $40. Damn. 3. It’s on the piers on the west side. I have been to Chelsea Piers now, with my kids, to take them ice skating. On these huge […]
Read More The Armory Show IMore from the Contemporary side of things. The first piece came from origami, and I loved the colors. All of them were squares and played with ideas of folding without using any actual folding (Alyson Shotz). Next were some African masks by Romuald Hazourme, made out of containers for liquid– gasoline, we would think of […]
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