Retired and Reinvented in a Comeback

and ongoing until the denouement:

 S, U, or D (doubtful):

I retired in February 2002... but was it a "retirement?"

Lost and Found!

Memories, Lighting Specific Corners of a Long Career

I was Charity's teacher that year and encouraged her to enter that contest, which she won. We were all very proud of her. 

Lost and Found: a note from long ago

On Paper/Grand Central at 100

MTA Arts for Transit Unveils New Papercut Exhibition at Grand Central

from the NYPost

And so... I went today, I saw, I took photos, and I scanned!

at the NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY

This was a fascinating exhibit, filled with wonderful information about an age gone by.

in the NYPost

Beauty’s Legacy: Gilded Age Portraits in America

Théobald Chartran (French, 1849 –1907), James Hazen Hyde (1876-1959), 1901

Emma Cecilia Thursby (1845-1931)

Nellie McCormick Flagg (1876-1923)

Fannie Fredericka Dyckman and Mary Alice Dyckman

Hamilton Grange

In October, I will be visiting and taking a tour of the Harlem estate of Alexander Hamilton.

coming soon!

A Queer History of Fashion at FIT

A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk the exhibit at FIT, coming soon!

the exhibit's website

Pierre Balmain, Jean Cocteau, Christian Bérard, Riding Costume for L'Aigle à Deux Têtes, 1947

Gianni Versace, leather evening dress, Autumn/Winter 1992

Alexander McQueen, silk dress from Plato's Atlantis Collection, Spring 2010

Of Interest

Storm King

Thomas Houseago, Sleeping Boy I, 2012

Poughkeepsie Bridge Walkway (Walkway Over the Hudson)

Ripley's Believe It or Not

Ripley's Believe It or Not

Baseball Exhibit

Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure

Vermeer and Music

Johannes Vermeer, A Young Woman Standing at a Virginal

Johannes Vermeer, The Guitar Player

Johannes Vermeer, A young Woman Seated at a Virginal

A Book Signing

The event:

Mariann from Brooklyn and me

High Pitch Mike and me

Shuli and me

Lisa G stands in the rear

Bobo poses for my camera

Robin enters

Robin speaks

Robin is ready to start the signing, with Ronnie Mund standing by

And then I walked the four short blocks to go home...

at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Today, I saw this exhibit! I loved it and learned so much about the artist, Balthus.

from THE NEW YORKER

from The New York Times

Balthus at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

at the Metropolitan Museum of Art:

Balthus Cats and Girls—Paintings and Provocations

September 25, 2013–January 12, 2014

Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski) (French, Paris 1908–2001 Rossinière). Thérèse, 1938



Therese Dreaming

The Golden Days

Brother and Sister

Lew Welch

I will be writing more about him later.

Poetry Foundation

at the Jewish Museum

Today, I went to the Jewish Museum to see:

Chagall: Love, War, and Exile 

September 15, 2013 - February 2, 2014

Marc Chagall, The Juggler, 1943, oil on canvas

Marc Chagall, Self-Portrait with Clock, 1947, oil on canvas

Marc Chagall, Time is a River without Banks, 1930–1939, oil on canvas

at MoMA

Today I went to MoMa:

Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938
September 28, 2013–January 12, 2014

René Magritte. The Menaced Assassin. Brussels, 1927. Oil on canvas

Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938

The Pyrrhus Concer House

The Imminently Endangered Physical Legacy of Pyrrhus Concer

51 Pond Lane
Southampton, Long Island:

The Morgan Library & Museum

Current:

Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings

Psyche Transported to Olympus  

"Lose not heart": J. D. Salinger's Letters to an Aspiring Writer

Collection of typed and autograph letters to Marjorie Sheard, 1941–1943

Upcoming:

Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul

First Cousin Once Removed

Alan Berliner's new film, “First Cousin Once Removed,” documents the decline and the death of his cousin, the poet and scholar Edwin Honig.

I was fortunate to see a shorter version of this film a few years ago at The New York Film Festival... and it is moving and brilliant. It is currently available on HBO at On Demand.

The filmmaker Alan Berliner is my friend and he was the inspiration for all of my work at my many blogs. I wrote about my meetings with Alan here:

 my interview with Alan Berliner

NYTimes review 

Call Me the Name, I Play the Game!

AFTER AN APB, NYC'S MOST WANTED STALKER 
WAS ARRESTED IN CHELSEA LAST NIGHT!
SHE WILL NOW BE BROADCASTING FROM JAIL!