Leslie Caron

“Good luck happens to a lot of people all the time, repeatedly. The important thing is to recognize good luck and make good use of it”     The Chair Dance — Provocative Dance “…God help me!” Caron laughed. “I couldn’t believe that. Well, you know, there was a lot of censorship. Everything was too…

Hemingway at the Morgan Library

“Baby, your book is knocking ’em cold here. Isn’t it swell? Love, Dottie.” Several years ago, I visited Hemingway’s house in Key West and it was so touching to see his typewriter exposed in his study room.  He enjoyed hunting, women, and fishing for marlin off Cuba. I wondered if all that adventurous lifestyle  was…

Goldberg & Marina Abramović

“We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.” —Marina Abramović Last month Igor Levit and Marina Abramovic had an interesting venue at the Park Avenue Armory. The concentrated durational work reflected upon music, time, space, emptiness and luminosity, with the audience becoming a part of…

Fire and Light compete today in the East

“Fire and Light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.” “… and especially to my friends, the writers, I invite you to travel with me to a land that is magical despite its poverty, to a…