We have taken the marginally safer path and moved to the isolation of our Berkshire house. We have acted out of self-preservation.
Tag: Leonard Quart
CONNECTIONS: Modern witch trials
If you are under 50 and, during your life, rights were ever-expanding and you thought it would be ever so: Did you hear the door slam?
QUART: Journey into the past
My wife is a painter enamored with color, so we visited a number of London’s art museums.
LEONARD QUART: Marching with the young
My political anger towards those who hold power remains intact. But today on an NYC March I began to feel something has changed.
CITY SKETCHES: A walk on Orchard Street
I still can remember an Orchard Street of the ‘40s and ‘50s where my mother took me, a resentful 12 year old, shopping.
Leonard Quart: One morning in New York
Some of live out their despair publicly — intoxicated, drugged, and talking to themselves. Others survive more quietly.
LEONARD QUART: A rare pleasurable political moment
There is now a push to promote a bevy of first time candidates in local elections — many of them women.
LEONARD QUART: A city Sunday of walking and political reflection
There is nothing new here, since racism and racist “dog whistles” is a powerful basis for Trump’s support.
LEONARD QUART: A New York Sunday
It’s also a way of spending some hours not thinking or talking about the monstrous narcissist and sleaze who offers us a compulsive lie and vicious tweet almost every day.
QUART: Discovering the sublime
In “Manifesto” at the Park Avenue Armory Cate Blanchett, looking like a most conservative American mother, presides over Thanksgiving dinner with her family (really HER family).
LEONARD QUART: Sound and silence
New York is a dynamic, vibrant city, but one whose constant clamor allows, at least in Manhattan, few moments of serenity. Some people love the din.
Bits & Bytes: Year-round dance studio at Jacob’s Pillow; Kinderland Arts & Activism Festival; the Boom Room; Leonard Quart on small business
The Perles Family Studio will be the new home for the School at Jacob’s Pillow and its pre-professional training programs.
LEONARD QUART: A tale of two cities
Despite the newspaper articles depicting the gentrification of the South Bronx, life in the projects and much of the surrounding streets is of a much different order.
LEONARD QUART: Yellow Cab Blues
The drivers speak of leaving behind countries where political corruption and violence are rife.
LEONARD QUART: Spring comes to New York
One often stumbles on to perceptions about city life by accident, so as I set out one day to do some food shopping, a number of things strike my eye.
LEONARD QUART: Chance encounters in The Big City
I’m someone who likes to ask questions of some of the people I run into, and more often than not people are willing to talk either about themselves or the world they inhabit in evocative and informative ways.
LEONARD QUART: Christmas in New York
None of these over-the-top displays aim at subtlety but their spectacle attempts to envelop us all in holiday good feelings, and it succeeds with many. Still, the abattoir much of the world has turned into repels and frightens me.
FILM REVIEW: ‘The End of the Tour,’ smart, revelatory, worth seeing twice
Much of the talk is about celebrity and how it undermines the humanity of the writer, the gap between the writer’s persona and his reality, and the emptiness of pop culture, which Wallace also loves.
Film Review: ‘The Drop,’ too easy a final role for James Gandolfini
The artists and young professionals who inhabit large slices of contemporary, gentrifying Brooklyn don’t appear here. Rather what’s portrayed is an older version of that borough — one built on elements of the great On the Waterfront.