September 2008
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Book Review: Red Land, Black land – Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz
If one walks through the Egyptian collection at Met, he or she can easily get lost.…
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MTT at Carnegie Hall
On the third night that Michael Tilson Thomas and his San Francisco Symphony Orchestra took the…
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Has the Bottom Fallen Out of the Antiques Market?
A recent Wall Street Journal article suggests it has, and I’ve personally seen evidence of it.…
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Period Rooms Open Again at Brooklyn Museum
Some of the Period Rooms, which had been temporarily closed, are open again at the Brooklyn…
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Not Enough Dutch?
Luck had it the two Schenck houses were saved by Brooklyn Museum. The Schencks were not…
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The Unutterable
It is as hard to imagine music without late Beethoven as to understand why they were…
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Period Rooms at Teddy Roosevelt Birthplace
There are three types of historic homes. The first is a historic home without historic furnishings,…
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Living Sculptures Come to Brooklyn
With Judy Kim, curator in Exhibition Division of the Brooklyn Museum, I had the opportunity of…
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Music Thoughts — A digress into the world with sounds
The ther day, I put the new bought Glenn Gould CD into the player and was…