Sunny Side Up

I was surprised this morning by the clear blue reflected in some of the buildings you can see looking down Sixth Avenue toward the financial...

  Both of my classes are off to a good start, I think. Back in the saddle!

In "Religion of Trees" on Monday we spent some time discussing what we've been doing with our drawing. Students said the pract...

My Mondays this semester are a stretch: "Religion of Trees" at noon, as students (and I!) surface from the weekend, three hours of...

This year's tulip delirium at Jefferson Market Garden.

The Jefferson Market Garden dahlias are still going strong! In case the photo doesn't make it clear, they're taller than me by half...

Dahlia delirium at the incomparable Jefferson Market Garden 

In our weekly engagement calendar of New York City-related art from the Metropolitan Museum, this week is devoted to Stuart Davis' 1930...

Always remarkable, the Jefferson Market community garden's tulips.

The tulips at Jefferson Market Community Garden are out of this world  

Earthshine, next Jefferson Market Public Library this eve.

  Once again , an amazing show of tulips, in every shape and variety (including the multi-ply ones that seem to have taken the city by st...

A frame shop near school has displayed this old map in its shop window. How old is it? 1961 - old enough for The New School to be contained...

I'm not sure where she found it, but my co-teacher J found this amazing picture of the Jefferson Market area once upon a time. How much...

Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the garden at Jefferson Market.

Colorful sky over Jefferson Market at dusk. My next sunset will be over the Pacific! California beckons. I'll be back in NYC on Janua...

After more than a year shrouded by scaffolding , Jefferson Market Public Library is back!

The wrapping of the Jefferson Market Public Library continues apace. It's a lot of work. Since last week , they added enough wooden plat...

As I was walking to school today, a man stood in the sky! Every building in Manhattan gets sheathed in scaffolding periodically for cleaning...

Beautiful autumnal day! I started in familiar territory, though unfamiliar on a weekend - to school for our Fall Open House for prospective ...