A dollar for every year…

It is hard to believe that it has really been five years since we held our first Studio 1482 meeting at 1482 York after a long day at the Metropolitan Museum of art. The intervening years have brought us a few cultural phenomena (Twitter and  Twilight , to name just two), yet we are still […]

Haiti fundraiser

“1791”, named for the year of the Haitian Revolution, which resulted in the abolishment of slavery. This is an ink painting on paper, done with pen and brush. Hand-signed prints of this piece are available for donations of $50 or more to CARE. Please visit our blog Onedrawingaday for more information on how to participate in this […]

The Shapeup

The Washington Heights barber wraps a young Latino in a cape emblazoned with day-glo palm trees, and nods into the mirror. They’re both silent and serious, the only sound is the boxing match on the wall-mounted television set. The young man is about to get a shape-up, a term referring to the removal of any […]

Zoo visit

The male Hammerhead bird of South Africa has figured out that his girlfriend gets amorous when he presents her with items to spruce up the 300 pound nest the couple share atop a knobby tree in the “open” style bird house at the Bronx Zoo. He goes out again and again to find suitable gifts […]

Summer is Baseball

Summer is now upon us, and that means the joys of iced coffee, kids shrieking in the spray of fire hydrant fountains, and of course the pied-piper melodies of the ice cream truck. Toward the evening, when the heat comes as much from the pavement as from the sky, the humid air vibrates with reggaeton […]

My America

America, woven of so many colors and cultures, with your Coca Cola, your philosophy of “yes”– America, my heart is yours. But as any profound thing, my love for you is complicated (traiterously Un-American, this ambiguity): While I enjoy my slice of apple pie in this Babel of Ever-Upward, I also worry about the self-destructive […]

Reportage

When I was a little girl growing up in Germany I remember staying up long past my bed time to join my mom to watch “the Reportage”, a weekly television program dedicated to stories from around the world. I loved the show because I never knew whom I was going to encounter next, yurt-dwelling nomads […]