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The Frick’s Angel

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[Special thanks to Kevin Manion for his generous assistance with this post.] Since you are reading what is generally referred to as “Guy’s personal blog,” it makes a certain kind of sense to say, once again, how we New Yorkers seem to have a special appreciation for what is available to us. Why? Because we …

Opera: “Akhnaten” Revival at The Met

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Although we had Akhnaten at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in November, 2019, I didn’t get to share my thoughts about it when it came to us then. So here is some of what Guy has been thinking about Akhnaten, which opened last Thursday and runs through Friday, June 10 (the final performance of Akhnaten for this season and …

Current: The Russia-Ukraine War – What Do Young People Think?

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It’s probably never easy to figure out how to react to what we hear and learn in wartime, in any war. The Russia-Ukraine war is no exception. Many of us – along with many other citizens throughout the world – found some level of comfort with what we thought were the effects of our famous …

Current: Russia-Ukraine War – A Change in Guy’s Posts

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These posts recently moved – we might say – to a different point of view from the usual topics I write about here. Those will continue, of course (there are still two more posts to be published about my beloved Vienna, for example). But now I find myself moving into what we used to refer to as …

Vienna: Otto Wagner’s Österreichische Postsparkasse

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After a long break, I am very pleased to continue this series of posts focusing on Vienna and Art Nouveau (or to be more precise, “Secessionsstil,” as Art Nouveau is called when we speak of the movement as it was taken up in Vienna, or even “der Wiener Jugendstil,” in some circles). Within this context, …