Paul Angiolillo Sculptures & Carvings at 3 Art Shows in MA
See these three art shows for wonderful work by Paul Angiolillo this fall and winter:
"Sculptures and Carvings" by Paul Angiolillo
Brookline Public Library
361 Washington St.
Brookline MA
Oct. 18 - Dec. 1, 2013
Holiday Shop
Fuller Craft Museum
Brockton MA (off Route 24)
Nov. 10, 2013 - Jan. 12, 2014
Arts & Crafts Show
Mount Auburn Club
57 Coolidge Ave., Watertown MA (near Cambridge line)
Sat., December 7, 2013
Paul notes: "I'll be at this all-day exhibit....Great food, too."
For more see Paul's website: www.paulangiolillo.com
Examples of his work:
Jim Rothman Shares Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Congratulations!! to Jim Rothman---how cool is this?
From nobelprize.org: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013 was awarded jointly to James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof "for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells".
YouTube video of recent press conference at Yale School of Medicine (Jim starts speaking at about 9:10): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OSCImRewe0
Website for Jim's lab at YSM: http://medicine.yale.edu/cellbio/rothman/index.aspx
Here are slides from Jim's engaging and enlightening presentation at our 40th Reunion health care panel: Jim Rothman (Slides)
Martin Mugar Painting in '100 Boston Artists'
Martin Mugar writes that one of his paintings has been included in a book titled 100 Boston Artists by Chawky Frenn, to be published July 28, 2013 by Schiffer Press. The Amazon listing is:
http://www.amazon.com/100-Boston-Artists-Chawky-Frenn/dp/076434403X
For more on Martin's work, see his website at http://martinmugar.com/Martin_Mugar/Welcome.html
Jim Kaplan's July 4 Tour
Jim Kaplan writes:
To My Walking Tour Fans and Participants.
I. I am pleased to report that my lunchtime pre July 4 nighttime walking tour lecture at Fraunces Tavern on June 18 was a great success.
2. As we move closer to my July 4 all nighttime tour (3 to 7 a.m.) I thought this article in the Downtown Express might be of interest:
www.downtownexpress.com/2013/06/19/a-wee-hour-tour-to-celebrate-the-u-s-a/
There are still tickets available for the tour, although it usually sells out. I urge you to attend, as for the first time this year there will be a joint ceremony by the Daughters and Sons of the Revolution ceremony in Trinity Church immediately following the Tour laying wreaths on the graves of the Revolutionary War heroes. .
Please contact the Fraunces Tavern Museum website or me* for tickets.
*Phone: 212-471-8546 or email JKaplan [at] herzfeld-rubin [dot] com
Catherine Ross Invitation: Book Talks by Jon Rieder
Catherine Ross writes:
My husband Jon Rieder has a new book -- Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle that Changed a Nation. . . . Jon was on Tavis Smiley two days ago, but it's not too late to hear him in person. There will be readings and discussions in several cities in the next few weeks. I hope that you can make it to one or more... If you are so inclined, please add them to your facebook page, "like" or twitter!
Briefly,
In NY: Thursday April 18 7 p.m. Barnes and Noble 82nd and Broadway
Thursday May 2 at 7 p.m. Canaan Baptist Church of Christ in Harlem, honoring the Rev. Wyatt T. Walker
Atlanta: Wednesday April 10, 7 p.m. The Carter Center
Birmingham: Tuesday April 9 at 6 p.m. Birmingham Public Library
Philadelphia PA: Wednesday April 24 6 p.m. Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania
Washington D.C.: Sunday April 28 at 5 p.m. Politics and Prose
Jim Kaplan History Tours Update
Jim Kaplan writes:
I am pleased to report the historical walking tours and lectures that I expect to undertake this spring and summer.
1. HELL'S KITCHEN: A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK IRISH
Sunday, March 17, 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm--Leaves from St. Patrick¹s Cathedral
On Saint Patrick¹s Day (this year a Sunday), I will for the third year be giving my annual tour on the political history of the New York Irish. It is now 41 years since I was assigned by the political operative Dick Morris to work for George McGovern at the McManus Midtown Democratic Club, whose leader James R. McManus has been the Democratic District leader in the Hell¹s Kitchen area for 50 years. In this unique tour I provide an inside view of the political history of Hell¹s Kitchen, from its settlement by the immigrant Irish in the 1850s to its recent rise as a trendy New York neighborhood. I also discuss the rise of
the theater district, the fight against blight and pornography in the 1970s, and most interestingly, based on original research, how Frances Perkins, FDR¹s Labor secretary and the creator of the New Deal social
welfare policies, got her start with Thomas J. McManus in 1910. In fact, Frances Perkins' grandson Tomlin Coggeshall of the Frances Perkins Memorial Foundation has agreed to come on the tour.
The tour is sponsored by Culture Now, and you can sign up on their website, culturenow.org. If you want more information about what I cover on the tour, you can run a Google search on "Tammany's Last Stand" to access my 10,000-word companion article, which covers most but not all of the tour. Also find the article my daughter Olivia and I wrote on Frances Perkins in Financial History magazine by doing a Google search on our names and Frances Perkins.
2. PHILADELPHIA AND INDEPENDENCE HALL--June 29, 2:00 pm.
This year, in conjunction with the summer meeting of the New York State Bar Association Tax Section, I will be leading a group to view Philadelphia¹s Independence Hall, and possibly Congress Hall as well. This will be the fourth year that I have given a historical tour in connection with the summer meeting of the New York State Bar Association Tax Section, and I anticipate that this tour will be even better than the previous highly acclaimed tours.
Independence Hall is the site where two of the most important legal documents in American history, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, were written. As in prior Bar tours, the participants
will hear a lecture on the building by a highly trained National Park Service guide. I will supplement this presentation with my own introduction describing the founding of Pennsylvania with the treaty in
1682 between William Penn and Chief Tammany of the Delaware Indians; how a young printer from Boston named Benjamin Franklin became one of the leading figures in the colony and its representative to the English in London; and how Franklin encouraged a failed and fired English excise tax collector named Thomas Paine to come to America, where in his pamphlet "Common Sense" he convinced the colonists that they should declare independence from England.
3. JULY 4 ALL NIGHT TOUR OF LOWER MANHATTAN--July 4th, 3 am to 7 am.
For the 17th consecutive year, I will be giving my highly acclaimed all-night walking tour of Lower Manhattan sponsored by the Fraunces Tavern Museum (the audio of which for 2012 can also be heard on the Culture Now website). On the tour, as in prior years, we will visit Thomas Paine Park, where I will discuss Paine's historic contributions to American liberty, and City Hall Park, where I will recount the July 4th history of the City of New York and my daughter Olivia will give a short talk on the historical significance of Nathan Hale. I will also discuss the role of General Horatio Gates in the critically important Battle of Saratoga. As you may know, as a result of this tour, the New York State Daughters of the American Revolution last October placed a marker in Trinity Church graveyard rescuing General Gates from 150 years of obscurity in an unmarked grave.
To honor General Gates's role in the history of the City of New York, I have moved the time of the tour up one hour to 3 a.m. to 7 a.m. in the hopes that the tour might be followed by a wreath-laying ceremony on the graves of Gates, Alexander Hamilton and Marinus Willett. Col. Willett is a new addition to my tour, who I now believe is as historically important as General Gates.
As in the previous four years, this year I will be giving a pre-tour lecture at the Fraunces Tavern Museum. This year the lecture will be a lunchtime lecture at 12:30 on June 18, and I will be speaking on important Revolutionary War Generals buried in Lower Manhattan: Montgomery, Hamilton, Gates and Willet. I intend particularly to discuss Marinus Willet, who in many ways is as important as Gates and probably more obscure.
For tickets, check with Fraunces Tavern Museum closer to the date: call 212-425-1778 or visit the museum’s website at www.frauncestavernmuseum.org.
Memoir of a Poet and Physician---Martin Rubin Review
Dannie Abse, “Goodbye, Twentieth Century: An Autobiography.” Chicago: Library of Wales/IPG Books. 578pp. $12.95pbk. Illustrated.
The Washington Times, August 24, 2012
By Martin Rubin
He’s not much known in this country, but across the Atlantic, Dannie Abse is a recognized and highly regarded poet, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and honored by Queen Elizabeth with the prestigious CBE. This decoration, just below knight in rank, is often an indication that a knighthood awaits down the road. Since Dr. Abse will turn 90 next year, let us hope that Her Majesty does not wait too long before bestowing this title. After reading this enormously engaging account of a long, active and creative life, not only as a poet but a physician who practiced full time for 30 years, I feel he deserves honoring.
Read Martin's full review here or visit washingtontimes.com.
Gordon Bowker's Biography of James Joyce Reviewed by Martin Rubin
Gordon Bowker, “James Joyce: A New Biography.”
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 608pp. $35. Illustrated.
San Francisco Chronicle, July 15, 2012
By Martin Rubin
In many ways, James Joyce is a literary biographer’s dream: a rich, complex oeuvre; a complicated and peripatetic life, much of it in exile; a multi-faceted character made for skilled excavation. Yet he also presents problems for those attempting such an enterprise . . . . But no matter how good Ellmann’s “James Joyce” was – and it still stands in many ways as a model – the world and with it literary biography and criticism have moved on since 1959. So it is a great boon that British biographer Gordon Bowker, who has written lives of Malcolm Lowry, George Orwell and Lawrence Durrell, should have taken on this task and better yet that he has produced such a fine portrait of the artist and the man who was James Joyce.
For Martin's full review, click here or visit sfgate.com.
Review of Hilary Mantel's "Bring Up the Bodies" by Martin Rubin
Book review: 'Bring Up the Bodies' is a compelling re-creation
Hilary Mantel returns to the vicious world of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell's maneuverings.
May 20, 2012 - Los Angeles Times - By Martin Rubin
Hilary Mantel's novel about the Tudor political puppet-master supremo Thomas Cromwell, "Wolf Hall," winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize for fiction, was so richly packed with character and action that it was bound to burst its banks. Originally intended to take Cromwell through the four years that it took him to fall from the pinnacle of power (where we left him at the end of "Wolf Hall") to his own appointment with the executioner's ax, "Bring Up the Bodies" forms the middle volume of what is to be a trilogy. . . . Mantel is so adept at referring here to his past, from the crucible of his childhood with an abusive father to the travels and travails that educated his mind and fired his ambition, that "Bring Up the Bodies" stands magnificently on its own.
For Martin's full review, click here or visit latimes.com.
'David Hockney,' Review by Martin Rubin
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
JUNE 10, 2012
“David Hockney: A Bigger Picture.” With essays by Marco Livingstone, Margaret Drabble and others. New York: Abrams. $95.00 304pp. Illustrated.
Christopher Simon Sykes, “David Hockney: A Rake’s Progress. The Biography 1937-75.” New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. $35.00 363pp. Illustrated.
By Martin Rubin
In the section on Christopher Simon Sykes' biography, the first of two planned volumes, Martin refers to an "amazing series of landscapes" Hockney has painted since his return home to Britain:
What a contrast they are to those bright canvases of the swimming pools and palm trees of Los Angeles, with their garish colors and bold presentation, which seemed to draw inspiration from the shock to his system of encountering such a climate and a light so strikingly different from the English gloom. As Christopher Simon Sykes makes clear in his thorough, graceful account of Hockney’s first four decades, the artist found a great deal in America, but more than anything else what he fell in love with was Southern California . . . .
Read Martin's full review here or visit washingtontimes.com.