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24 Sep TIO NYC: Happenings at the Museum of Modern Art
Magritte (through January 12, 2014): What you see is not necessarily what you get. What you see is a pipe. But the label says: “Ceci n’est pas une pipe.” “This is not a pipe.” And despite appearance, the object is not a pipe. Why? Because...
22 Sep TIO NYC: Textiles, Cameron,Turrell and Hopper at the Museums
Metropolitan Museum of Art: “Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade” and Julia Margaret Cameron: Set your watches back to the 16th century, a colorful time in history, when countries including Portugal, Spain, France and Holland created a virtual cat’s cradle of trade routes on the...
21 Sep TIO NYC: “A Night with Janis Joplin”
Little known fact: she painted and though no Picasso, she was good. She was a fashionista and though no Anna Wintour, she became a trend setter. In 1966, when she joined the Haight-based psychedelic-rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, her adoption of a...
12 Jan TIO NYC: “LIFE OF PI” AND “FAKING IT” AT THE MET
What to do on a rainy day in New York? Try fishing for your dinner. That’s what it felt like, like all we had to do was reach out and grab a fish right out of the ocean as it flowed into our laps from...
02 Jan TIO NYC: ART AND WATER
Marlborough Gallery, 40 West 57th Street, Manhattan, is always one of Susan’s and my favorite stops when in New York. The current show (through January 5, 2013, so hurry) was special, even for Marlborough. In it’s simplest terms, GAIA, Guy Laliberte’s exhibition, is about veiws...
01 Jan TIO NYC: AUGUST WILSON’S “THE PIANO LESSON”
“Signature Theatre’s revival of August Wilson’s Piano Lesson brings a timely reminder of how consoling, how restorative, how emotionally sustaining great theatre can be,” Charles Isherwood, The New York Times Stephen King would have taken the story over the top. No doubt the piano was...
31 Dec TIO NYC: HANGING WITH WASSILY, HENRI AND GEORGE
On a two-day whirlwind trip to the Big Apple, we hung with a group of artists who lived at the same time and were similar in the fact they marched to their own drum. Or drums. Since their chosen paths were very different. One was...
13 Dec TIO NYC: SINATRA TRIBUTE AT URBAN STAGES
Wednesday, 12/12/12, would have been Frank Sinatra’s 97th birthday. Though he died in 1998, the night proved once again that Frank’s musical legacy is as fresh as tomorrow. Sinatra, as interpreted by a host of mostly young women and a few men, was definitely in...