One thing I miss an awful lot from my now-teenager’s early childhood is reading great children’s books with him. When it was at last time to clean off his shelves and store the wonderful juvenile books he had outgrown, there were a few I could not bear to put away. These are on [...]
I have been on a nostalgia kick lately for some reason. Last week I received a long-anticipated DVD by mail from Zipporah Films called Ballet. I knew of this film about five years ago when it was available only to rent in 16mm and for a princely sum at that. Award-winning documentary [...]
Balloon Dog by Jeff Koons at the Chateau de Versailles exhibition; photo, Ed Alcock for the NY Times
I meant to post about this a few days ago, when the picture above appeared on the cover of the NY Times Arts section; Kristen Sloan over at the Winger beat me to it. Drat. Of [...]
Okay. So, this is how I wish to look when I am approaching age seventy. No, wait. This is what I wish to be able to do when I am nearing seventy. An interesting proposition, since I am more than a couple of decades from that milestone, and I’d be hard-pressed [...]