The beautiful thank you card from Leonardo that includes a tiny book! Ms. Rose Ellen Neidish invited me to PS 187 to read CROW MADE A FRIEND to her 2nd grade classes, and we did a fun activity where we … Continue reading
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Ms Rose Ellen Neidish invited CROW MADE A FRIEND and me to her 2nd grade classes at PS 187 last week. We had such a good time making friends, and also really making friends out of clay, colorful feathers, pipe … Continue reading
This week is the wonderful Creative Aging Conference, organized and hosted by The Creative Center at University Settlement. I taught my Inkblot workshop, with some new variations, on Tuesday, and we all had such a good time. I was talking … Continue reading
Sonia Sotomayor on a tea towel On the walk across town to the Grand Hyatt hotel (next to Grand Central Terminal), I was a little emotionally rumpled from work, and feeling kind of unsettled about my life choices (not to … Continue reading
Check out the new William Wegman mosaic murals at the 23rd Street F station! These are just a couple of them. On the other side is a dog in a red raincoat. 🙂 … Continue reading
Happy Holidays from my house to yours: Rockefeller Center Anthropology window A beet: (you’re welcome) Pretty December flower in NC Happy Holidays from me to you! … Continue reading
Pretty winter sky in Upstate Manhattan: … Continue reading
I love a drawing. Looking at a drawing is like a little invitation to the mind of a painter, even a long dead one. The years fall away, and I am with whomever it is, and we are sitting together, … Continue reading
Monday I went to the Guggenheim to see the Hilma af Klint exhibition on view there til April. af Klint was a painter and spiritualist who was painting in the early 1900s, making these fantastic, resonant, vibrating abstractions long before … Continue reading
Today I saw a fantastic show of paintings by the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint, who was painting these incredible abstracts in the early 1900s, years before Malevich, Mondrian, Kandinsky were eschewing anything representational. She studied at the Royal Academy … Continue reading