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 […]
Tag Archives: New York City
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 […]
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 […]
Pride: Then and Now
“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.” —Saint Augustine (AD 354–AD 430) Ever mindful that pride goeth before a fall; here […]
World War I Memorials, Part One
“One day the Great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.” ―Prince Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898, German Chancellor 1871–1898). Bismarck made this prediction in […]
Tulip Time in the Village
And tulips, children love to stretch Their fingers down, to feel in each Its beauty’s sweet nearer. — from “A Flower in a Letter” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) You […]
Seeing Something New in the Village
“Art is a habit-forming drug, that’s all it is, for the collector, for the artist, for anybody connected with art.” —Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) I must say that I agree with […]
