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Love Rocks NYC 2020: A Pandemic Of Caring
This is an article about caring in the time of Coronavirus.This is an article about a benefit concert that was supposed to happen on March 12, 2020: the 4th Annual Love Rocks NYC benefit produced by Fashion Designer John Varvatos, multi-hyphenate Greg Williamson (Real Estate, Concert Production and God’s Love We Deliver trustee), and Event […]
Concerts At Home
Over the last five weeks I have had some great music experiences at home, music that has lifted my spirit and fed my soul, distracted me from the increasingly grim reality of the coronavirus death tolls, and been a companion during self-created “lunch hours” and late-night evening entertainment.Every day (or in my case, most nights) […]
"I want to leave home less and less."
As the sixth week of the stay-at-home order in California begins, I realize that I”ve become deranged and must be suffering from a Coronavirus pandemic-induced Stockholm syndrome because I keep thinking: I don”t want the quarantine to end.Outside my home’s bubble is tragedy: Thousands upon tens of thousands of lives lost to this insidious malady, […]
No, I haven"t read all of Proust. Fighting the coronavirus humble brag
David Hockney has painted 10 new iPad works. Barbra Streisand is working on her memoir. On Instragram people are baking bread and working out. Friends are calling to say that they”ve Marie-Kondo”d their homes.And all their getting-things-done is stressing me out.What this is is an epidemic of humble brags.People are knitting and quilting and reading […]
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Studio DRIFT's Freedom Franchise And Drone Art
Art has always had as its schema to make us see. At different times, in different ways, it has called on us to rethink every aspect of perception – what we see, how we see it, how it is seen and how it is rendered; as well as to reconsider the very materials with which […]
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Israel's Holden Caulfield: On Yair Assulin's "The Drive"
YAIR ASSULIN”S The Drive, an award-winning Israeli novel first published in Hebrew in 2011, has just been released in the United States by New Vessel Press, in a translation by Jessica Cohen. It is a slim book that speaks volumes about the current state of Israel.The Drive represents a new landmark in Israeli fiction. Israel […]
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