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A few weeks back I came across a brief review in the New Yorker by Peter Schjeldahl of the current Whitney Biennial, which turned out to be a condensed version…
Sadly, the choreographer and filmmaker Jo Andres has died . Here is her (as of this writing) Wikipedia bio: Jo Andres (born 1953 — died January 2019) was an American filmmaker, choreographer and artist. Andres first…
In the summer of 1999 I visited the World Trade Center, going up the elevator to Windows on The World. I often wondered if the jovial elevator operator was on…
New York has been much celebrated in song. In recent years, these songs have tended towards the unpleasantly grandiose; New York as an arena of near-unlimited personal fulfillment and narcissistic…
Séamus Sweeney 