In the Barn Museum at the Mohonk Mountain House (digital)© Brian Rose Without comment.

Kykuit, the Rockefeller estate in Sleepy Hollow, New York (digital)© Brian Rose Without comment.

Invasion 68 Prague, Photographs by Josef Koudelka at Aperture Gallery (digital)© Brian Rose A few posts back I wrote about 1968 and Paul Fusco’s photographs of the Robert Kennedy funeral train. Currently, at Aperture Gallery in Chelsea, is another exhibition dealing with 1968–Josef Koudelka’s photographs of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, which brought to a […]

Brendan, my son, on Bedford Avenue (digital) I’m back from a week upstate, and will resume lengthier posts shortly. Update: Jenny did the poster.

Mohonk Mountain House (digital) A few days away from the city, we are at the Mohonk Mountain House near New Paltz, New York, up the Hudson River. This is the classic view of the historic lake and hotel, a Catskill retreat that dates back more than a hundred years. It was cool and foggy this […]

Astor Place (digital)© Brian Rose Without comment.

Paul Fusco, RFK funeral train, 1968 I was 14 years old in 1968, undoubtedly the most tumultuous year since World War II–at least in the western world. Although I was too young to be seriously engaged in what was going on, I was acutely aware of the epic events occurring–Vietnam, civil rights, the assassinations of […]

East 14th Street Without comment. I’ve been busy lately, but have several posts coming up. Saturday I visited three exhibits in Chelsea: Joel Sternfeld, Josef Koudelka, and Paul Fusco. The latter two deal with tragic and tumultuous events in 1968. Sternfeld’s work is new and majestic. I’ll write soon about all of these.