The Existential Vacuum and Our Present Moment
BIDEN BEATS TRUMP My Donald Trump Existential Moment When and how did Donald Trump enter my life? Having been a professional working in New York... Read more →
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The 50th Anniversary of Earth Day
The 50th anniversary of Earth Day was celebrated on Wednesday, April 22. The idea of establishing one day each year to celebrate the Earth, the... Read more →
Michelangelo Drawings At The Getty
Gallery view with reproduction of detail from the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, The Vatican, Rome Editor's Note: This exhibition was reviewed... Read more →
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Lucita Hurtado: I LIVE I DIE I WILL BE REBORN at LACMA, to May 3, 2020
Allon Schoener with Lucita Hurtado, February 13, 2020 Lucita Hurtado with Allon Schoener, LACMA, February 15, 2020 Art criticism is supposed to... Read more →
Ram Dass and Me
Ram Dass 1931-2019 Ram Dass was a New Age guru who, in the late 1960s. with Timothy Leary, emerged as a proponent of the psychedelic experience.... Read more →
Where’s My Roy Cohn?
For anyone who was on the scene in New York in the 1950s through the 1980s, Roy Cohn was an inescapable malevolent presence. He was juicy copy for... Read more →
Buried by Vesuvius: Treasures from the Villa dei Papiri
Buried by Vesuvius, Treasures from The Villa Dei Papiri, The Getty Villa’s current exhibition, through October 28, 2019, is a legitimate exercise... Read more →
Rolling Thunder Review
As my Netflix Rolling Thunder Revue video disappeared from my computer screen, I smiled and said to myself, “After all, this is a great... Read more →
Remembering I.M. Pei
Remembering I.M. Pei When I heard that the internationally acclaimed modernist architect, I.M. Pei, died on May 16 at the age of 102, I lamented... Read more →
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Green Book, Harlem on My Mind, and Spike Lee
While watching the announcement of Green Book as Best Picture at the Academy Awards ceremony on TV, I saw a platoon of white dudes in penguin suits... Read more →
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