strictly speaking, the phrase was, Qu'ils mangent de la brioche* Air France cancelled our holiday. Only early this afternoon, when I had fortuitously come upon a news article in the front section...
untitled (Bertoias) 2012 I spotted this group in the MoMA Sculpture Garden today at about 5:30, when friends and I were leaving the museum. The Bertoia chairs were waiting patiently for the audie...
but the shame of sentencing the man to prison, and it endures today Henry Cowell at the Forest Theater, Carmel, 1913 (we were all once very young) Henry Cowell, born in the last years of the 19...
lines (empire) 2014 The sun is able to reach this wall, fifteen feet from the window, only secondhand: It needs the help of a casement across the street, propped opened at just the right angle.
untitled (kale wave) 2013 I saw this wave of ornamental kale assembled inside the pedestrianized area of Broadway just to the east of the Flatiron Building today, and snapped this picture with my ...
Leo Borchard (b. March 31, 1899, Moscow - d. August 23, 1945, Berlin) On this day in 1945 the conductor Leo Borchard was killed by an American sentry in occupied Berlin while the musician was bein...
detail of Stampflehmbauweise (rammed-earth process) wall Berlin's Kapelle der Versöhnung (chapel of the reconciliation) was built on the exact site of the Versöhnungskirche, which had survived the...
untitled (radish water) 2013
large detail of the seating in the anatomical theater It was an immense privilege to visit the newly-restored 1789/90 Tieranatomische Theater in Berlin's Humboldt University today. The building, ...
untitled (cutting board) 2013