Follow Your Folly
“Beauty and folly are old companions.” —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) With a companion or alone, following the follies in Madison Square Park offers an amusing summer diversion. Mad. Sq. Art is […]
Monthly Archives: July 2014
A Modern Topiary
“I love the dialogue with nature in creating a piece that needs so much control—How many plants should be planted? How will these plants survive?—while at the same time giving […]
A Great Actor get Graffitied
“I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not.” —Ernest Borgnine (1917–2012) While clowning around in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg section, I found this […]
A Taste of Provençe in Greenwich Village
“If I couldn’t laugh, I’d rather die.” —Claudette Colbert (1903–1996) I like this quote that says so much about Claudette Colbert; but the Academy Award-winning actress has nothing to do […]
A New York City Hawk
“The bird hunting a locust is unaware of the hawk hunting him” —A Portuguese Proverb At the corner of Fifth Avenue and 12th Street, only six blocks north of its […]
Brooklyn’s Famous Faces of Clay
“Those, I suppose, are the directors of the society. I can make out Mr. Beecher and Mr. Murphy but I can’t quite make out Dr. Storrs.” The above quote was […]
Sugar, Its Bitter and Sweet Sides
“Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.” —Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) In 1843 the sugar cube, a.k.a. […]
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