Words on how to experience attachment to all are not a burden. They lighten our load.… Read More

Lorraine Hansberry is best known for her play “A Raisin in the Sun,” which debuted on Broadway in 1959. The title is based on lines from the poem “Harlem” by Langston Hushes: “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” The play has achieved the status of a classic in American theater.… Read More

The adult world is one of complexity and imperfection. It is where we are called upon not to be perfect but to be responsible.… Read More

The spirituality of imperfection opens us up to viewing others, and ourselves, with a measure of divine grace. … Read More

Torah uses images of weight to paint a picture of the Israelites in exile in Egypt. They are “pressed down upon,” taskmasters are “put on them,” they are “compelled to serve.” Bent over, they trample straw into the mud to make bricks.… Read More

We experience the world in three dimensions. How can artists replicate such experience on a two-dimensional medium such as the flat surface of a canvass?… Read More

Arshile Gorky traveled between worlds. Some of his journeys were open and revealed. Others were hidden and obscure. He bridged European Surrealism and American Abstraction.… Read More