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Back from Greece and jet-lagged to beat the band. First stop was Santorini where J and I attended a wedding for our pals Nia and Mark. The island is a poem of sky and sea and volcanic mountains, and the perfect setting for the union of two beautiful people (and one of my oldest friends—Nia…
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Two ultras, cultural touchstones in wildly disparate ways. Seems like all the cool people are checking out of this world. Imagine–heaven must be hoppin’
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A costume designer whose work enlivened Broadway (Pipe Dream, On The Town (photo) Jerome Robbins’ Broadway) and Off-Broadway (he was Forbidden Broadway‘s principal costumer for oh so many years). RIP.
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It’s the last day for Martin Puryear at MOMA. If you’re in NYC take a little extra time for lunch and head to 53rd Street for a look at this seminal artist’s wood hewn sculptures, work that invites the viewer to simply bask in its sheer beauty of craftsmanship, or ponder its myriad subtextual gradations….
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Funny thing about that Broadway strike—I thought the reduced slate of plays and musicals might grant me a reprieve from the monstrous crowds clogging Times Square’s streets, Sephora, the Virgin Megastore and the sidewalk below MTV’s studios in the Minskoff Building. Didn’t happen, so I sucked up the inconvenience, dodging the starry-eyed out of towners…
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Is it dirty does it look dirty that’s what you think of in the city does it just seem dirty that’s what you think of in the city you don’t refuse to breathe do you someone comes along with a very bad character he seems attractive. is he really. yes very he’s attractive as his…
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Herbert Muschamp 1947-2007 Read his amazing essay, The Secret History
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