Author: Nicolas Renier

  • A Joan Mitchell Painting in The Rockefeller University Collection

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    By Bernie Langs I hold the opinion that Abstract Expressionism was the last great movement in the history of painting. This school, or style, emerged in America (and centered in New York) after World War II, and its many master artists would include the likes of Jackson Pollack, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko,…

  • 1st Avenue

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  • Memorable Music at the Cloisters

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    By Susan Russo In Fort Tryon Park, overlooking the Hudson River in uptown Manhattan, through December 8th, an extraordinary sound installation is being presented at the Cloisters, a branch of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, which houses rare and beautiful medieval treasures. Recorded by the Canadian-born artist Janet Cardiff, The Salisbury Cathedral Choir in…

  • Crossword of the Month

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    By George Barany and Friends Fall Classic 2013  

  • WISeR (Women In Science at Rockefeller): A New Initiative

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    By Asma Hatoum, Mariko Kobayashi, and Alessia Deglincerti This summer, a small group of postdocs came together to launch a new initiative called wiser (Women In Science at Rockefeller) to begin to tackle a persistent problem: the underrepresentation of female leaders in academic and non-academic sectors of science. While women hold 60% of all bachelor’s…

  • De Gustibus: The Bird’s the Word

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    By Mark Rinaldi If you’ve never had occasion to enjoy the marvel that is Japanese yakitori, I’ll break it down for you: wooden sticks are stuck through bits of chicken, and then those bits are grilled over coals. Simple, right? Not so fast–there’s a bit more to authentic yakitori. The grilling medium absolutely must be…

  • Happy Halloween!

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    By Aileen Marshall Halloween is coming up at the end of this month on October 31st. It has become a very big holiday in this country, for children as well as adults, and it is growing in other countries. How did Halloween get started? The holiday we know today is actually a combination of a…

  • Culture Corner A Visit to the Musée national du Moyen Âge (Paris)

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    By Bernie Langs By roundabout way of introducing this museum review, there is a funny scene in Woody Allen’s film comedy Midnight in Paris when, after having visited the Rodin Museum accompanied by a know-it-all art history buff, Owen Wilson returns there alone and asks the docent (Carla Bruni) if she remembers him from the…

  • New York State of Mind

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    This Month Natural Selections interviews Carly Gelfond, Assistant Director of Development. Country of origin: United States. 1. How long have you been living in the New York area? I’ve been living here for seven years, since I graduated from college in central New York State. I’m originally from New Jersey. 2. Where do you live?…

  • For Your Consideration– Best Picture Check-In Edition

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    By Jim Keller I dare not take a stab at the ever-changing supporting actor categories when several of the films that could very well give us our nominees haven’t been seen, so stay-tuned to fyc next month when I’ll offer my thoughts on the Best Supporting Actor and Actress categories and conclude the four part…