Saul Slaying Nahash and the Ammonites; Samuel Anoints Saul and Sacrifices to the Lord.Old Testament miniatures with Latin, Persian, and Judeo-Persian inscriptions,France, Paris, Purchased by J. P. Morgan, Jr.,1916
J.P. Morgan Museum and Library
Published today in Scotland: Detroit trendy city, covering Renzo Piano’s opening of the new Whitney in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan, pain relief through radio waves, not outlandish walking again for the first time in 25 years through NYC technology
No fair. You can not read the entire article here because Isabelle Lomholt and Adrian Welch just published Joel’s Column in Scotland to an audience of nearly one million hits a day from architects and the building community. Go to Scotland. Read Detroit Trendy City in Scotland where it was meant to be read first […]
Saint George Slays a Dragon
My You Tube “sound” video on the Morgan Library for e-architect U.K.
Readers are aware that I have an obsession with Renzo Piano’s Morgan Museum and Library in New York. Consider, for example, the percentage of my published e-architect articles on the subject. This is how Adrian Welch, my editor at e-architect UK, described this You Tube, which I produced for him: “Giorgio Bianchi, one of the […]
Today I am 66 years old
I am 66 years old today. I was listening to a George Strait song at midnight Troubadour. Troubadour is a song in which an older and wiser George Strait sings: “I still feel 25 most of the time./ I still raise a little cain with the boys./ Honky Tonks and pretty women, But Lord I’m […]
My first YouTube on architecture two days before my operation
From the YouTube about section: Published on Aug 29, 2013 Here is Joel Solkoff’s video in which he visited the Gagosian Gallery. The Gallery’s Sarah Duzyk kindly arranged for him to visit the Renzo Piano exhibit after it had closed and indeed during de-installation. Each desk represents a different Piano site. The extensive array of desks […]
Driving to surgery
THE GOAL. Surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital where I probably will be cured of kidney cancer on Thursday, August 8th first thing in the morning. The Hospital is located at 125 York Avenue, New York, New York 10065. ++++ ++++ [Readers: Start at the bottom and work your way […]
Art as cancer therapy
I guess this all starts at the Morgan Museum and Library, Renzo Piano‘s 2006 major expansion, his first commissioned work in New York City. This is a good time to refer you to: http://www.e-architect.co.uk/ published daily from Scotland by Adrian Welch and Isabelle Lomholt (who is a beauty). The site receives 960,000 hits a day–a lot more hits […]