Estelle Kurzen, the sister of my friend Aaron Kurzen, died shortly after her brother in 2021. Aaron lived to 103 and Estelle three years younger. While Aaron was well known in his circle of friends and students as an artist and art teacher, Estelle was little known and had no circle of friends. She gifted […]

Once upon a time, Whirlwind Creative was located in the heart of the fashion district. In the busy-ness of our daily design endeavors, we forgot that we were in the heartland of extravagant costuming in the making. The recent discovery of an “International Fashion Magazine Store” on 37th Street between Broadway and 7th Avenue prompted […]

A recent visit to an installation by the South African artist, William Kentridge, at the Marian Goodman Gallery in New York City left me silenced in its presence. A faceted, panoramic landscape with projections of human silhouettes, mostly African, moved in a ritualized procession against a bleak monochromatic, flickering background. Stylized cut-outs of large heads […]