My guest blogger this week is Jonah Jeng, our talented Communications intern who also happens to be a terrific writer with a knack for analyzing art. He just finished his freshman year at the University of Rochester, where he’s double majoring in brain & cognitive science and film & media studies. I gave Jonah an […]
When people ask where I’m from, I most often say, “I’m just a kid from the Rockaway’s.” This used to evoke a querulous “Where?” But no longer. Unfortunately, the Rockaway’s are recently famous, but not for the charm and fun I knew riding my bike on the boardwalk on a brisk winter’s day from Beach […]
Beauty, we are told, is in the eye of the beholder. So for some beauty is a sunset. For others, it’s a sports car or a diamond. For Robert Wiener, Chairman of Maxx Properties and ArtsWestchester board member, beauty is a geode. For more than 40 years, Wiener has been collecting geodes, some 2,000 of […]
For some reason unbeknownst to me, I have this thing about the arts. Call it an obsession? A calling? It’s hard to explain, but whatever it is, I found myself last week spending a rainy day in Albany asking for a mere $4 million dollars for the arts in a $142 billion state budget. Feeling almost […]
Sound is an all encompassing art form. “You only need those two holes in the sides of your head to participate,” says Bruce Odland, a sound artist, whose Hudson River work Hearing Space is now being shown at ArtsWestchester’s Gallery 9 in White Plains. “Hearing is a connective sense, with your ears always connected to the environment,” […]
The secret is out. In a former life, I raced sailboats…reluctantly of course. It was a rite of passage that came with marriage. Racing a Snipe-class boat (13 ft.) in the Atlantic Ocean seemed the least I could do for a future husband who loved to sail. Weaker hearts might have remained single. As it […]
My guest blogger this week is my creative and talented executive assistant Alison Kattleman. Italy has always been a leader in the arts. Such names as Giotto, Caravaggio and Guttuso come to mind. Now there’s a new voice in the grand tradition of Italian painting—the Arcane Movement, which has, since its inception some two years […]
The presidential election is less than two weeks away and American entrepreneurship is on the line. We are told by candidates that 60% of all jobs come from small businesses. So, I thought I’d check in with Chris Wedge, who is the brains, the heart and the innovator of Blue Sky, an animation studio that produced […]
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