Victor, Franz and Me

Recently Victor Juhasz, one of my very favorite artists and people, and I caught the show of the 21 heads by Franz Xavier Messerschmidt at the Neue Galerie.  These are mysterious heads.  They are all of faces in extreme discomfort or anguish of some kind. Messerschmidt was a German sculptor who was rising in prominence, … Read more

Opposite Day

In politics every day is Opposite Day.  My latest for Need to Know.  My first as writer/director.  Thanks the Refinery studio for making this transition much easier than I imagined. Watch the full episode. See more Need To Know.

Now Williams Knows

NPR finally leveled with Juan Williams about the reasons for his firing. “Juan”, they said in a closed door meeting, “we’re so sorry, when you came in the door the other day, a bunch of us thought you looked just like Yasir Arafat.  ‘Joe’, one the guys said, ‘Arafat’s dead’.  I said, ‘okay, but this … Read more