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 …
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When Your Mother Dies
When your mother dies, it’s the first thing that comes into your mind when you open your eyes in the …
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 …
An Inauguration Day Letter to Hillary
Dear Mrs. Clinton: On this day when I find myself more alienated from my own country and government than ever …
Camera Obscura: Christmas Edition
The golden voiced Cantori New York gave a choral concert on Sunday. Sitting there listening to their beautiful renditions of …
There’s No Place Like Home
What is it that provides a sense of place? For some people it is their birthplace, an inexplicable but deep …
Purposeful Enchantment
In a documentary about the late English ballerina Margot Fonteyn, her one-time partner Robert Helpmann said that she had a …
