MY UNCLE ROBERT

There are many sad stories that often go untold and as the decades pass, lives that were lived fade away. This was my uncle Robert. 

MUSEUM EXHIBITS

 from THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY

“I’ll Have What She’s Having”: The Jewish Deli

TITANIC THE EXHIBITION 526 6th Avenue, New York, NY 

 (Southeast Corner of W. 14th Street at 6th Avenue)

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF ART

EDWARD HOPPER'S NEW YORK

SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL 718 Broadway, New York, NY 

WONDERLAND DREAMS 529 5th Ave, New York, NY 

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

Virginia Woolf: A Modern Mind

THE JEWISH MUSEUM

Through the Saga of the Sassoon Family

Attributed to William Melville. Portrait of David Sassoon. Oil on canvas; 41 ½ × 33 in.

 

LINCOLN CENTER

Historical Landmarks of San Juan Hill

LEGO Friends Pop-Up 210 10th Ave

THE MET

Berenice Abbott’s New York Album, 1929

Photograph: By Berenice Abbott | West Street, 1936 / 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Jane and Mark Ciabattari

MoMA 

"Georgia O'Keeffe: To See Takes Time"

Photograph: The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Straus Fund, 1958. © 2022 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New YorkEvening Star No.III, 191

THE MET

"Wheat Field with Cypresses" and "The Starry Night"—will be on display together in a new exhibition at The Met starting this spring. The show, titled "Van Gogh's Cypresses," will be the first to focus on the artist's fascination with the flamelike trees.

The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh. Saint Rémy, June 1889

THE RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART

Death is Not the End

The Last Judgment; Follower of Hieronymus Bosch, Netherlandish, ca. 1450–1516; late 16th century / Philadelphia Museum of Art

THE YEARLY VISUAL

For decades, every year at Christmas time 

I tried to create a sublime rhyme.

I would exit my building and see a sight to behold

And with excitement, so many thoughts would unfold.

The Santa so silver and huge and and it lit up the street

And all those people walking when I heard their feet

Going here and there, this way and that, in front of me 

After cars passed, I really had nothing else to see.

The tree in my lobby was part of that picture so pretty

I finally took pen in hand to write this little ditty.

But you see, I want you to read between the lines.

I want you to be able to see through my eyes to the signs:

I am old now and grey and getting older every day

So I ponder: will this be the last time I get to see it and say

Happy holidays to you and those passing along the highway?

--- Marjorie J. Levine © 2022

IN SEPIA

Then in sepia

Fading old in full soft light 

A strange new vision

HOLIDAY CHEER

UNCANNY RESEMBLANCES

Some of the pictures I own display an uncanny resemblance to photos taken by famous photographers and the art of famous painters. This is a piece created so the viewer can ponder the coincidences within an educational point of view. In some cases, the pictures were taken years before the famous photos. 

This is posted under "fair use" for the purpose of commentary and criticism.

Credit is given to the celebrated photographers and artists of the images in the comparisons. 

I realize some of the old photos are blurry. But I do not want them to be evaluated in terms of how clear the images are, but rather to be viewed as hazy photos in the way time itself fades away and becomes dim. Hence, a"blurry aesthetic."

There is a photo that shows a "joker" who saw remains in 1939 on the side of the road and created an almost offensive and shocking photo around the object because that was who she was. 

And that is what makes the curated collection of photos in this blog piece unique and I hope remarkable. I included my authentic pictures because I wanted to go with truth...