I never met Margot Irish. She was a teacher and volleyball coach in Sleepy Hollow. She lived in White Plains. She passed away in 2009. She may have graduated Horace Greeley High School. I am not certain of that, but according to a tribute on the school’s website, she loved the arts. I believe this […]
The ancient art of shadow puppetry is something most of us as kids have tried. With a white sheet on the wall, and a flashlight, it’s fun to conjure up wolves, dogs and ominous people. The folklore surrounding this 2,000-year-old practice tells of an Emperor who was able to cure his grief by viewing the […]
I am a dog person. I am not a cat person. The idea of spending an evening with a bunch of cats of all stripes and varieties never quite appealed to me. I state this to explain why, despite being the second longest running Broadway show, I never saw Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats”…that is until […]
Although 2012 is the year of the dragon in the Chinese calendar, for ArtsWestchester it is the year of the Fish. There are two reasons for this. The first is that the Chinese believe that the fish brings in wealth, and we at ArtsWestchester hope they are right. We need an infusion of arts funding […]
The paintings are scary, unreal and grotesque. There are the imaginary people who consume their own bodies or parts thereof such as the “Face Eater.” There is the “Gouged Girl,” in which a girl picnics nonchalantly on the beach. Her face and body are partly singed. You might for a moment react in disgust to […]
Perhaps I am dating myself…BUT…When I was just a kid growing up in the Rockaways, my mother and I would board the Long Island Railroad every Saturday for an hour trip into Manhattan for ballet classes and for Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s concerts at Carnegie Hall. The closest thing we had to culture was the […]
What is there about The Nutcracker that makes it such an endearing classic? For one thing, it’s a party. Beautiful people in elegant attire gather around a magnificently decorated tree, along with little boys in knickers, girls with starched white dresses, and magic in the air as toy soldiers and flowers come to life. But […]
Snow in October? I pooh-poohed the reports to myself and those around me. I even promised Leah Emery, Neuberger Museum Acting Director, that it would never happen. She seemed momentarily relieved since the museum’s big gala with the Performing Arts Center was much anticipated for that Saturday evening. Then the unthinkable happened. Yes. Snow in […]
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