Don’t be a Rat
It is impossible to obtain true numbers due to lack of data, but the estimate is that one hundred billion …
Category Archives: Art
Three Tall Women and Two Short Ones
I recently attended the wonderful revival of Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women, with Glenda Jackson, Laurie Metcalf and Alison Pill, …
Genius Tales
What is it about stories that demand retelling? We are human, we like stories. We tell them to each other, …
The Woman Makes the Clothes
Nothing prepares you for the sheer energy of Rei Kawakubo’s designs. From the hands and imagination of this Japanese founder …
The Wave and the Mountain
The framed photograph of my mother, happy and dressed for my brother’s wedding, sits on a Korean chest in my …
Clowning Glory
On view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at the moment is an exhibition entitled “Seurat’s Circus Sideshow,” a collection …
Trash and Treasure, Part II
It is possible, in a single week, to see both the sublime and the ridiculous in almost anything. Exhibit #1: …
From Many, One
We have a new subway line in New York, the “Q”, which runs up the East Side of Manhattan and …
A Political Lesson in the Prodigal Son
A revisit to New York City Ballet recently set me thinking about families, and forgiveness, and welcome. One of Balanchine’s …
Purposeful Enchantment
In a documentary about the late English ballerina Margot Fonteyn, her one-time partner Robert Helpmann said that she had a …
Poets' Sinews 