Five Favorites

Le Bal du Moulin de la Galette, Pierre Renoir

Nighthawks, Edward Hopper

Hide and Seek, Pavel Tchelitchew

The Sleeping Gypsy, Henri Rousseau

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, Johannes Vermeer

Off the Grid

Sniffen Court, on East 36th Street

Milligan Place, Greenwich Village

Patchin Place, Greenwich Village

MacDougal Alley, Greenwich Village

Washington Mews, Greenwich Village

Harrison Street

 

Henderson Place

Pomander Walk

Sylvan Terrace

What the World Needs Now

What the world needs now is to get on the "Love Train" and dance like nobody is watching!

 

Still There

It Was... an End of an Era

Skyline Books was at one time located on W. 18th St. It closed in 2010. 

They Lived Here

Bill Burroughs lived in this house in Lawrence, KS.

Jack Kerouac Lived in this house in Orlando, FL. 

Passing: On My Way Today

I saw that this great bookstore is now closed and gone:

And I visited the very old Jefferson Market library. 

This is how it looked many years ago when it was a jail:

JFK, home in Brookline

Carvel anyone?

Valley Stream LIRR Station, mid 1960s

at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

I went to this breathtaking exhibit today and was mesmerized by the depth and scope of the presentation. I learned a great deal, and the interesting subject matter shall remain inside me forever.

Matisse: In Search of True Painting

Matisse: In Search of True Painting, Press

"(Matisse) attempted to capture the essence of a light-filled room in a series of canvases painted in Nice in the winter and spring of 1917–1918:
Interior at Nice (Room at the Hôtel Beau-Rivage), The Open Window (Room at the Hôtel Beau-Rivage), and Interior with a Violin (Room at the Hôtel Beau-Rivage)

The Hotel Beau-Rivage is on the right:

"The Matisse Exhibition at the Galerie Maeght, Paris, December 1945 "The fall and early winter of 1945 were dubbed "the season of Matisse." In October he was honored with a thirty-seven-picture retrospective at the Paris Salon d'Automne. In December six of the paintings reappeared about a mile away at the inaugural exhibition of the Galerie Maeght. Each painting was juxtaposed with large framed photographs documenting its evolution."

 Galerie Maeght is on the right:

The Galleries

THE DREAM

THE LARGE BLUE DRESS

INTERIOR AT NICE

NASTURTIUMS WITH THE PAINTING "DANCE"

INTERIOR WITH AN EGYPTIAN CURTAIN

INTERIOR WITH GOLDFISH

LARGE RED INTERIOR

YOUNG SAILOR II

Collioure 

(where YOUNG SAILOR  was painted)

Gone Joints

Letter to the Editor

A letter that I wrote is published in today's NYDailyNews:

A classic
Manhattan: Here is a better question for the teacher who gave homework about slaves to teach math: “Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb?”
Marjorie Levine

Lost and Found

I found my ticket stub to a Barbra Streisand concert at Madison Square Garden in 1994. I must have loved her. I would not pay that price today to see her...