Archive - Oops! All Darlings

Brief Note on the Satanic Portal on 23rd Street

For some reason Madison Square Park always gets satanic pieces of public art that serves as taunts at or challenges to that very public, to which I…

May 14, 2024 •

March 2024

Review of P. F. Chang’s in Union Square

My brother and I saw the imperial horse wrapped in its plastic and styrofoam, in the summer of 2021.

Mar 29, 2024 •

January 2024

Oops! All Darlings

Dynamite stylist and American gem Ernest Hemingway apparently said somewhere, “Kill your darlings” as a piece of writing advice, and ever since its been…

Jan 28, 2024 •

April 2023

Wheatfield with crows (July 1890)

I am writing again about Vincent Van Gogh’s Wheatfield with crows (July 1890) because it popped up (I was looking through an art book and then I saw it…

Apr 14, 2023 •

March 2023

On Spinoza’s Concept of Love

For three months three Octobers ago I had decided I wanted to be a Spinoza guy.

Mar 24, 2023 •

Sci-fi: The Pearl

A wide flank of Manhattan schist in Washington Heights rose exposed, an evisceration of the island petrified as a backdrop for parkways and picnics, to…

Mar 10, 2023 •

On the Role of Anticipation in the Experience a Work of Art

Richard Strauss wrote Eine Alpensinfonie over four years, a triumph of realism that depicts 11 hours trudging a wide flank of the Alps in just above an…

Mar 4, 2023 •

February 2023

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