Locked Groove (Lou Reed Is Dead)

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Film Capsule: Finding Vivian Maier

To know Vivian Maier was not to love her, or even understand her, according to a handful of acquaintances. For above all else, Vivian Maier valued her privacy. Maier spent the majority of her adult years living in close quarters, … Read MoreRead More

Mia Farrow on Losing (1999)

“There have been many losses in my life. I get it now. But I didn’t get it then, that life is about losing, and about doing it as gracefully as possible, and enjoying everything in between – having as many … Read More

Celebrating Two Full Years of Fearing Brooklyn

Well, here we are, exactly two years to the day since I decided to swing out on my own. Good times, a plethora of good times, indeed. And yet, I still feel like there’s so much more for me to … Read More

Galleria: Vivian Maier: Self-Portrait @ The Howard Greenberg Gallery

Vivian Maier was a curious bird – a classic loner, if not a voyeur, who lived vicariously through the veiled lens of her camera. Maier shot more than 150,000 images, many of them black and whites of urban life throughout … Read More

David Shenk on The Infinite Possibilities of Chess (2013)

“It’s so deceptively simple when you’re starting out the game, you can start out by moving a pawn either one square or two squares, each knight can go one of two different places. When you think about it, right from … Read More

Moving On: Things That Go Bump In The Night

My first thought was that it must have been a cat, or perhaps some wandering possum that had slipped in through a window. The sounds fell soft like pattering, occasionally accompanied by the creaking knock a door might make when … Read More

Film Capsule: Dallas Buyers Club

Here is a list of the movies Matthew McConaughey has absolutely kicked ass in over the past two years: The Lincoln Lawyer, Bernie, Killer Joe, Magic Mike, Mud and Dallas Buyers Club. McConaughey is also expected to kick ass in Martin … Read MoreRead More

Joel Meyerowitz on Ephemeral Connections (2012)

“When I think about my photographs, I understand that my interest all along has not been in identifying a singular thing, but in photographing the relationship between things – the unspoken relationship, the tacit relationship, the impending relationship. All of … Read More

And This Is Yale

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