Early November and gorgeous autumn is going strong. Daylight Savings is over and the sun slants in like a spotlight between 3:00 and 4:00.  Every splotch of butterscotch, sienna, magenta takes another curtain call.  Painters take note….  France?  Or Boston?  Inspiration for Jackson Pollock?  Inspiration for Mark Rothko? Inspiration for Read More

  As much as I’ve traveled, there’s no place like gorgeous New England clinging to its coastline of rocks, coves, safe harbors, islands, sandy spits, dunes, marshes, glacier ponds. Why go anywhere else in the summer?  I’ve been hanging out in Provincetown at the very end of the long arm Read More

  Reading and traveling – does it get any better?  These books have kept me company on long flights and sleepless nights, on the beach and in shabby hotels with bad lighting.  Some are fun – even hilarious, some are great adventures, some are historical companions. Most of these are Read More

On the road in the Mountain states, in fabulous weather (heat wave threatening – very unusual for June), we head south from Yellowstone, stop in the Grand Tetons for three days of biking, hiking, staring up, up, up at the 13,000 ft snowcapped peaks and floating down the Snake River. Read More

There aren’t many clichés you can add to the spectacular-ness of nature.  And there aren’t many places where you can get the full impact of its largesse than that of the Lamar Valley in the northeast corner of the first US National Park.  From a core herd of 24 genetically Read More

Architect Daniel Libeskind, praised for “his ability to weave memory into physical space (Jewish Museum, Berlin)” has created an underground memorial museum to the lives lost on 9/11 that takes up the entire footprint of the original north and south towers and the plaza between them, seven floors below ground. Read More

Fall 2014   First the good news:  The Clark is back and the collection hasn’t changed. Now the bad news: practically everything else about the new Tadeo Ando re-imagining of the space – extension, entrance, bookstore, café and grounds.   The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown is a beloved fixture Read More