Featured Posts – Page 5 – Talking Pictures

Death Around Every Corner: Looking for Mushrooms at Woodlawn

October 26, 2016

All over the country, there are mycological societies devoted to mushroom foraging and mushroom education. In New York, the group is a robust collection of experts and novices who spend weekend mornings walking through parks, forests, and cemeteries [...]

You wanna do something for the birds and the bees? Native Plants in October at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens

October 4, 2016

These are snapshots I took a few days ago which Uli Lorimer, Curator of the Native Flora Garden, kindly identifies and explains how they fit into the ecosystem. Yes, even in New York City we have an ecosystem! And we could have a better and more [...]

Bradley Eros at Anthology Film Archives

September 27, 2016

I wanted to play a digital clip but none exist. To see Eros and feel Eros, you have to be there. I could say more BUT…….. Read the titles and go! EROTIC PSYCHE: BRADLEY EROS & ALINE MARE (WORKS: 1983-87) VENUS TO PENIS 1983, 14 min, [...]

NOMENCoLorATURE at Studio 10

August 9, 2016

Paul D’Agostino’s latest beautiful effort to bring painters together on hot summer days opened last Saturday and can be viewed again on Saturday and Sunday (8/13 and 8/14) from 2-6. (Yours truly presiding on Saturday – CNQ) NOMENCoLorATURE – [...]

Listen Up Now! Locally. Ridgewood Radio!

July 10, 2016

Our out-there friends, David Weinstein and Ruth Kahn from Outpost Artists Resources explore their native land, canoeing up and down the river of the L to record live music. They are presenting their research, plus radio specials from their coolly [...]

Botanical Field Drawing at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

June 28, 2016

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Adam Simon at Studio 10: “Nike to Nike”

May 17, 2016

This excerpt was originally published in “from Nike to Nikephorous to NIKE” by Keith Sanborn, written to accompany Icons by Adam Simon at Studio 10 in Bushwick, New York (May 13 – June 12, 2016). Republished with permission from [...]

The Great Lafayette Harris Open Jam at Stop Time Bar

March 18, 2016

Open Jam night, with the famous and celebrated pianist Lafayette Harris who provides wickedly subtle accompaniment, has moved to Stop Time (right in the neighborhood, people!) because the wonderful Lenox Lounge (but so far away) has closed for the [...]

Contest: We have one winner!

February 23, 2016

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 email us at [...]

Contest: Win Robert Walser’s “Looking at Pictures”

January 14, 2016

We’re giving away free copies of Robert Walser’s Looking at Pictures, courtesy of pub. CHRISTINE BURGIN/NEW DIRECTIONS. The first three people who send Talking Pictures a selfie with L’Arlesienne will win a book! To enter, please [...]