Wild Pigs Eat All Their Dinner: And here, a perfect description of my favorite, rambunctious animal from the equally rambunctious book I am currently reading: He was swollen with muscle and horny skin – sharp erect hairs swarmed over his hide-bushy bristles jutted from his spine-his foaming gnashing teeth clattered- his menacing, staring eyes flared …
This large topographic map of the NYC watershed areas created by the DEP in 1939 is now on display at the Queens Museum! It was originally commissioned for the 1939 Worlds Fair. But it never was displayed at the fair. Some say the reason was because it was too big for the space allotted for it …
“We constantly strive to give our life its form, but by copying,in spite of ourselves, like a drawing, the features of the person we are, not the person we should like to be.” The Guermantes Way Today I read in the NYTimes about a psychological study that made me reflect on that sentence from …
Off Center, December 2012 For the month of December Husk considered the new Barclays Center in Downtown Brooklyn. The project “Off Center” was part of 3-art.org‘s monthly online exhibit of work made by teams, duos and collaborators. Follow our conversation about this controversial new arena and the area surrounding it here.
I recently went through boxes of old photos. Sometimes a photograph, instead of being a mere snapshot of a past event, perfectly captures the memory of time past. Marina di Pietra Santa, 1980s.
I saw Carlos Reygadas’s Post Tenebras Lux new film on Friday night. With this one and Holy Motors I seem to have had the knack of picking unusual films to go see in the theater. There is nothing straightforward about this movie. But unlike Holy Motors, I was largely entranced by this very strange, hypnotic film. …
I used to say if I ever had a kid it would happen in the way it happened to Gloria Swenson, in the Cassevettes film Gloria. I’d acquire the kid by some twist of fate — like a mob hit. However, my partner is a woman so when we our son was born it wasn’t exactly …
Abandoned villa near Matisse Museum in Nice, France. Roaming around Nice for a weekend with Stephanie, who has a conference.
I saw the last screening of the day on Oct. 28th. Film Forum was going to be closing early, in advance of the city-wide transit shut down. Superstorm Sandy was bearing down on the city. During the film my pocket was buzzing. “Are you evacuating?” I left the theater a few times to check messages …
View from where I was sitting on the couch. Discovering Columbus, Columbus Circle