Galleria: Rising Waters: Photos of Hurricane Sandy @ Governor’s Island

It’s a dicey proposition, sponsoring an exhibition that documents any type of natural disaster, especially a recent one. Perhaps more so than anything else, curators need to maintain a vital balance between honor and integrity, avoiding the constant pitfalls of … Read More

This Is Harvard, MIT

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Neil Young on Fulfillment (2012)

“It’s cool to go places where working people are happy.”

Fete Paradiso

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Film Capsule: You’re Next

OK, so there’s this house, see, and it’s like waaaaay out in the wilderness, right? I mean like sooooo far out that you can’t even get, like, cell phone service or internet access, y’dig? And so, then there’s, like, this … Read MoreRead More

Film Capsule: Our Nixon

Poor poor Bob Haldeman, loyal as a boyscout right down to the flat-top. He squandered what little credibility still remained following the Watergate hearings by heralding the very man who forced him up the river. Of the three cabinet members … Read MoreRead More

Galleria: American Modern @ The Museum of Modern Art

A few years back – and by “a few” I mean several – I happened to be at The Museum of Modern Art when I came upon Christina’s World by Andrew Wyeth. At a glance I was almost sure that … Read More

P.T. Barnum on Perseverance (1880)

“Work at it, if necessary, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now. The old proverb is full … Read More

The Turning of The Nighttime Into Day

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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on Expansion of The Conscious Mind (1968)

“It is amazing that most of us, even though we have been thinking right from the beginning of our lives, have rarely thought, ‘Where was the thought before we thought it?’ Nobody bothers about the origin of thought. How does thought … Read More