by Witold | Aug 1, 2020 | Modern life
I am a latecomer to the Jordan Peterson phenomenon. I haven’t read any of his books but I have listened to numerous lectures and interviews. A 2018 interview with NYU professor Jonathan Hardt, founder of the Heterodox Academy, about the causes for the unravelling of...
by Witold | Jul 16, 2020 | Architecture
The current exhibition at the Farnsworth House gets rid of all the Mies furniture, which was never a part of the original decor, and recreates the interior as it was when when Dr. Farnsworth actually lived in the house. There are Moroccan rugs on the travertine...
by Witold | Jul 4, 2020 | Architecture, Modern life
Last week, the University of Pennsylvania announced plans to remove its statue of George Whitefield, a famous eighteenth-century British preacher, due to his condoning slavery. What was the statue, made by R. Tait McKenzie in 1919, doing at Penn? Whitefield was a...
by Witold | Jun 13, 2020 | Modern life
It was the great Cole Porter’s birthday on June 9. In 1934 he wrote the musical Anything Goes. The world has gone mad today And good’s bad today And black’s white today And day’s night today . . . And though I’m not a great romancer I know...
by Witold | Jun 8, 2020 | Modern life
I note that Christo Javacheff passed away recently. I was not a fan of his work. On the occasion of his and Jeanne-Claude’s Gates project in Central Park I wrote in 2005 in Slate: “Jeanne-Claude has been quoted as saying that she thinks that Olmsted would be “very...
