Labor’s Victory: Paid Vacation and the Man who Made it Possible
“What a stormful sunset was that of last night! How glorious the storm, and how splendid the setting of the sun! We do not remember ever having seen the like […]
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2014 U.S. Open, Part II
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” —from “Worstward Ho” by Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) The quote above is inked up the length of Stan Wawrinka’s […]
2014 U.S. Open, Part I
“When you do something best in life, you don’t really want to give that up; and for me it’s tennis.” —Roger Federer (1981– ) Attending an early-round match at the […]
Walk About New York gets Quoted
“One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.” —Tom Wolfe (1931– , Author) Visit the Big Apple as if […]
Robin Williams: a Portrait in Chalk
“In America they really do mythologize people when they die.” —Robin Williams (1952–2014) Let the mythologizing begin! I found this portrait in chalk of Robin Williams on the pavement near […]
Painting and Playing in Washington Square Park
“All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.” —Paul Cezanne (1839–1906) It was a picture perfect day for painting pictures en […]
Doughboys in Bronze
“The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.” — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862–1933, British Foreign Secretary) […]
Union Square as Art Gallery
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” —Aristotle (384 BC–322 BC) Four days per week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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