Category Archives: Anthology

My collected writings and those of family members.

“Reach Out from Within”

Posted on August 31, 2019 by JMN

Karen Rosenberg writes that this exhibition of Helen Frankenthaler’s work at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY, “presents Provincetown [Massachusetts] as more of a psychic space, one of negotiation and self-discovery, with new family responsibilities but not too … Continue reading →

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“Ida, Not Georgia”

Posted on August 18, 2019 by JMN

Roberta Smith writes of an exhibition at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts entitled “Ida O’Keeffe: Escaping Georgia’s Shadow.” I don’t warm immediately to the work of Ida Ten Eyck O’Keefe (1889-1961), but I’m glad it has survived against … Continue reading →

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Song of the Ottoman: Original Poem

Posted on August 16, 2019 by JMN

Our past is our mystery. It is the tangle we have made of our hopes when we have come up to them. The future alone is clear. (Robert Henri) INTRO What it is not is an ottoman. What it is … Continue reading →

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Weaponized Food

Posted on August 4, 2019 by JMN

“Food is constantly implicated in economic and political processes, as well as in social and historical processes… Because of the recent events in the Middle East, even something as innocent looking as a ground chickpea ball can be used as … Continue reading →

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Bed Science

Posted on August 1, 2019 by JMN

The Bed Science Made Better Can your bed make you feel this good? (Ad in NYTimes online) Can my bed make me feel that good? Probably not. But the improved bed science created by an elided subordinating conjunction, and Henry … Continue reading →

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Flock of Ties

Posted on August 1, 2019 by JMN

(c) 2019 JMN

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Amazing Apology

Posted on July 8, 2019 by JMN

The man who wrote the words of “Amazing Grace” was a reformed English slave trader. He wrote the following: “I am bound in conscience to take shame to myself by a public confession which, however sincere, comes too late to … Continue reading →

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The Saving Grace of Dinghies

Posted on July 6, 2019 by JMN

I have had a soft spot in my heart for the humble dinghy since boyhood. At age 14 I ordered the plans for building a one-design sailing dinghy called the El Toro. Regrettably I never got the thing built, but … Continue reading →

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“Sagacious Show in a Handsome Shack”

Posted on July 3, 2019 by JMN

Brice Marden’s artistic and cultural crossing of boundaries is exciting. In the mid-1980s, the abstract painter Brice Marden veered from his early monochromes and grids to calligraphic circuits, inspired by his reading of the… poet Hanshan, or Cold Mountain… Black … Continue reading →

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Parting Looks — HJN (Last)

Posted on June 26, 2019 by JMN

Harold J. Nichols (1924 — 2013) (c) 2019 JMN

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