Sunny Side Up

Since we can see it from our window it stands to reason you can see our place from Grant's Tomb! The tomb's grand inside but...

Change of season at Fort Tryon Park

I found it nearly impossible to wish people "Happy Thanksgiving" this year. This wasn't because I don't believe in gi...

That river we see out our window is a tidal river, its downstream flow reversed twice a day by the rising tide. When the gears shift, as it...

Classes that meet just before the Thanksgiving break, when many students have already decamped, are always a little subdued. I remember f...

   That's about it for this year...

The Met's new show " Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe " is about the Kunstkammern of central Eur...

Latest installment in our newer truer account of New School history, by the mind behind the ad extravaganza in Union Square last month...

Saw Glass' "Akhnaten" at the Met on Tuesday. I'm only starting to like it now that the memory of the silly production fad...

Maybe he's finally cracking.

In today's New School history lecture, we told together two stories we usually tell separately - the Matsunaga Affair and the Mobe. (Ac...

 Two more views of the Lang courtyard trees, aglow on a dark day

A fascinating Op-Ed on the early Quakers shows what a difference an awareness of history - and religion - can make. Its topic is pronouns,...

  Is it because of the violin-like inner curves of these six-cut mushrooms or the 60˚ angles that they put me in mind of a cubist paintin...

Union Square Green Market!

  At a presentation on the learning styles of "Generation Z" today we were told to let our students know that multitasking is a...

In "Theorizing Religion" today I projected this picture of my hand grasping the proffered bronze replica of the hand of Genesis P...

Overnight, the city's ginkgo trees lost all their leaves, even green ones.

In our New School history course today, we talked about the moment when Parsons joined the New School, 1970. What may have been the first r...