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Cy Twombly 1928-2011
July 6, 2011
A modern master. Read Jerry Saltz’s consideration of this great artist here. RIP
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Anna Massey 1937-2011
July 5, 2011
One of the best British actresses ever, she could go from light comedy to period drama without breaking a sweat. Retrospect: catch her in anything, but especially Hitchcock’s Frenzy, Another Country and the Powell/Pressburger masterwork (her second film) Peeping Tom. RIP.
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Another Page
July 2, 2011
Live from New York: this morning as a family of starlings chirped me into cognizance, I thought, the past is present again. Funny—it remembered the first day of my Woodstock residency almost a month ago, less evocative of home than a clue to the sheer volume and diversity of bird stock in that neck of…
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Clarence Clemons, Star Tenor Saxophonist 1942-2011
June 19, 2011
What makes a great album? It’s a delicate balance of artists, songs and those happy accidents of musicianship. Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run is a textbook example of how the stars aligned to bring us a once-in-a-lifetime work of art. If soul can be defined as an instrument, then pay attention to the work of…
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Retrieving My Enthusiasms
June 7, 2011
It’s a chipmunk world, and I’m just living in it. At the Byrdcliffe Colony in Woodstock where I’m doing a month-long residency, the animals have it: with their rust-colored coats, those cute chipmunks ripple through the grass like glints of bright copper; cats (domestics named Celeste and Bob) strut across the lawn at night, their…
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The Last Cowboy
June 5, 2011
James Arness 1923-2011, forever remembered as Matt Dillon on television’s long running Gunsmoke. Look closely for glints of a resemblance to his little brother Peter Graves (Mission: Impossible) who died last year.
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Regular People Picking Pictures
May 21, 2011
The leaving is the hardest part. Call me complacent, or merely a homebody—whether departing for Rome, Beijing or even upstate New York, a mourning state comes over me whenever I must leave Manhattan. Maybe it’s always hard because I can’t forget that this was where my life truly began, which means that all its signposts—its…
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The Good Wife No More
May 18, 2011
Life imitating art or history repeating–take your pick.
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Double Minority
May 16, 2011
Following Rick Welts, CNN Anchor Don Lemon comes out as a gay man. See this Towleroad link and the NYT coverage where he discusses the intricacies of being black and gay, frank talk we don’t hear as often as we should. Bravo, Mr. Lemon…
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Playing for our team…publicly
May 15, 2011
Let the walls come down dept: Phoenix Suns president and CEO Rick Welts came out as a gay man this week. See the NYT article here…congrats, Rick…
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