
Month: February 2016


The Second Time Around at “Greater New York” at PS1
…is better than the first time. The reason? Lowered expectations (possibly the key to happiness in all things.) So I didn’t hurry from room to room in search of something else without knowing what that […]

Contest: We have one winner!
We have our first winner for the Robert Walser contest. Maria will receive a copy of Walser’s “Looking at Pictures”, courtesy of New Directions. We still have two books to give away. To enter, please […]

Parable # 2: Lanes
Brenda at the pool said to me, “You stay over there in the fast lane where you belong.” “Why, is that the White People’s lane?” “Yes it is, and it’s Black History month!” – Adam Simon […]

Parable # 1: Shovel
After the last big snowstorm, our neighbor Sal told a couple of the guys working for him to clear the snow from in front of our house. One guy said to Michele, “Can I borrow […]

Matt Freedman and Cathy Nan Quinlan draw Paul D’Agostino at Life on Mars
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Matt Freedman draws Mike Ballou at Pierogi and Beverley Semmes at Susan Inglett
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Important Conversations: Fred Valentine at Schema Projects
The Pumpkin Festival and Other Portraits” is a show of large and small scale portraits in charcoal that Valentine made 1989-91. The large scale portraits drew me into surprisingly intimate conversations. Actually they are not […]

Letter from Meg Hitchcock
Well that wasn’t so bad. The review is more about you than me; I was afraid that you were going to bust me on not knowing squat about religion or God or anything else (which I don’t, […]