Steve

Today’s battle about the inane NY Post page Six toon comparing Obama to the dead chimp is joined. Justified calls of condemnation are pouring in.  The Post cartoonist, clearly a hack, either followed a bizarrely racist, brain dead, or both editorial line or came by this all by himself.  It is a piece of dreck … Read more

Stimu-lite? Does anybody “know” anything? Frank Rich on Sunday threw a parade for Obama and the package: “But we do know this much. Just as in the presidential campaign, Obama has once again outwitted the punditocracy and the opposition. The same crowd that said he was a wimpy hope-monger who could never beat Hillary or … Read more

Lincoln, now 200 and looking better than ever. This for the Goodwin “Team of Rivals” review in The New Yorker.  Here also are Chase, Bates, Stanton and Seward, all of whom had had designs on the White House but in a time of crisis came together to help.  It took a tough guy in the … Read more

Last week at the Whitney my daughter Terry (SVA class of ’12) and I dug the great, playful work of Calder from his Paris years in the late 20’s, early 30’s.  Afterward, over pizza at Serafina’s, we took the Calder spirit to the paper tablecloth: drawing heads without lifting the pen.  How great when art … Read more