Art & Culture Archive
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The Watts Towers. 1.20.13 Los Angeles.
Posted on January 26, 2013 | 1 CommentYesterday, on my mother’s birthday, I went with two friends to the Watts Towers–one of the more significant spiritual journeys I have ever had in the company of other people, let alone a neighborhood. Poverty in LA (unlike poverty in... -
Dick
Posted on November 19, 2012 | No CommentsOh, for the love of Richard Burton! I don’t mean the jewels, the private planes and yachts that he showered onto his most public love, Elizabeth Taylor, but the sheer luminous lust of him, and the language! In his rollicking, brilliant “Diaries,”... -
The Au Pair as Movie Star and The Movie Star as Art Student. NYC. 11.8.12 and 11.13.12
Posted on November 14, 2012 | No Comments -
Debutantes: On Frank Moore
Posted on November 8, 2012 | 2 CommentsThese remarks were delivered at New York University on November 7, 2012, about the artist Frank Moore, who painted the author and himself as imagined children in his 1992 painting, “Debutantes.” I am very grateful to Lynn Gumpert at the... -
At the Public
Posted on October 8, 2012 | No CommentsLike jazz musicians, theatre people tend to live at night. So, it was especially touching to find so many great actors, directors, writers, and producers up and at ‘em by 10 a.m. yesterday morning to celebrate and honor the completion... -
Sarah Polley’s Mother
Posted on October 6, 2012 | No CommentsDear X: You have been much on my mind, I’m terribly sorry I couldn’t make the birthday party, but it would have involved getting my head around another event in order to be present to you and Y, and I...
