Don't let the Republican barons bring back their "good old days." I was downtown on Friday afternoon at the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place, at 4:45, the exact moment one hundred yea...

stills from 2007 video posted by Wikileaks showing a US Apache helicopter firing on civilians in Baghdad Are we doing the government's own, dirty work? I just now got it. I'd searched my mind fo...

surely we can hold ourselves to a higher justice than that which condemned them The Six core members of Die Weisse Rose (The White Rose), a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany, were arres...

John Blee Jewel Return 1982 acrylic on canvas 48" x 33" I met our friend John Blee soon after I had moved to New York in 1985. I knew him first as a brilliant mind and an engaging conversationali...

It may not be New York's first crocus of spring, but it's something of an event here. On the very first day of March I looked at the plant pots outside our north-facing breakfast room window and ...

The Dependent, where boundaries blurred (here the New York Fine Arts room) I've found my art fair. "Armory Arts Week" worked this year: Institutions often don't age any better than people, and m...

I tried resisting the lure, and I almost didn't go to The Armory Show this year. So I think I was feeling a little grumpy in the first hour or so at the preview last night (it didn't help that Bar...

Stephen, Jessica, and friends When I first saw this terrific image by Kristianna Smith I thought, "the only thing missing here is the cute puppy." In fact however both the photo and this post are...

today in Tahrir Square, "Egyptian people greet selves as liberators"* While the victory of the Egyptian people is a major problem for authoritarian governments throughout the Middle East, it's a b...

a complicated relationship* Egyptians have a complicated relationship with the army. While we are told over and over that it occupies a high status within Egyptian society, largely because of per...