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Books

DOG-EARED ON THE BOOKSHELF

A Book of Luminous Things, Czeslaw Milosz  •  The Abundance, Annie Dillard  •  American Primitive, Mary Oliver  •  Art is Work, Milton Glaser  •  The Art of Looking Sideways, Alan Fletcher  •  Blood, Bones, & Butter, Gabrielle Hamilton  • . The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, ed. Arnold Rampersad  • . The Creative Habit, Twyla Tharp  •  Delights & Shadows, Ted Kooser  •. Essential Writings, Thich Nhat Hanh  •  Felicity, Mary Oliver  •  The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand  •  From the New World, Jorie Graham  •  The Gift, Hafiz; trns. Daniel Ladinsky  •  Grit: The Power of Passion and Perserverance, Angela Duckworth  •  H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald  •  In The Company of Women, ed. Grace Bonney     Innocents & Others, Dana Spiotta  •  Just My Type: A Book About Fonts, Simon Garfield  •  Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke   •  A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara   •  M Train, Patti Smith   •  Many Moons, Modern Women   •  The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley   •  Mr. Vertigo, Paul Auster   Mrs. Dalloway,  Virginia Woolf      My Berlin Kitchen, Luisa Weiss   •   On Writing, Stephen King    Ooga-Booga, Frederick Seidel      Our Inner Ape: Why We Do What We Do, Franz de Waal   •  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard   •   The Rise, Sarah Lewis   •  Reclaiming Conversation, Sherry Turkle   •   Sculpting in Time, Andrey Tarkovsky      Small Victories, Julia Turshen   •   Shadow of Night, Deborah Harkness  •  This Boy's Life, Tobias Wolff  •  This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women, eds. Jay Allison & Dan Gediman    To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee  •   To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf  •  Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston  •  The Turner House, Angela Flournoy  •  The Writing Life, Annie Dillard    Viviane Maier, Street Photographer, ed. John Maloof  •  You Are a Badass, Jen Sincero  •  Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One with The Universe, Yumi Sakugawa  

Movies

FAVE FILMS FROM THE QUEUE: 2019

3 Women, dir. Robert Altman  •  Atonement, dir. Joe Wright  •  Au Revoir Les Enfants, dir. Louis Malle    Big Night, dirs. Stanley Tucci & Campbell Scott  •  Brideshead Revisited, dir. Jeremy Brock  •  To Catch a Thief, dir. Alfred Hitchcock  •  Cinema Paradiso, dir. Giuseppe Tornatore  •  Cold War, dir. Paweł Pawlikowski  •  Dogville, dir. Lars von Trier   Desk Set, dir. Walter Lang  •  The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, dir. Ned Benson  •  Elizabeth, dir. Shekhar Kapur  •  Everlasting Moments, dir. Jan Troell  •  The Fall, dir. Tarsem Singh   •  Fanny & Alexander, dir. Ingmar Bergman  •  Finding Viviane Maier, dirs.John Maloof, Charlie Siskel   •  The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, dir. David Fincher   Good Morning Vietnam, dir. Barry Levinson  •  I Am Love, dir. Luca Guardagnino  •  Ida, dir. Paweł Pawlikowski  •  Lazzaro Felice, dir. Alice Rohrwacher  •  The Lives of Others, dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck   •  The Lobster, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos  •  M. Hulot's Holiday, dir. Jacques Tatí  •  Magnolia, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson  •  The Master, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson  • . Minimalism, dir.  Matt D'Avella  •   Moonlight, dir. Barry Jenkins   •  Orlando, dir. Sally Potter  •  Pina, dir. Wim Wenders  •  Roma, dir. Alfonso Cuarón  •  A Room With A View, dir. James Ivory  •  The Red Shoes, dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger  •  Summer With Monika, Ingmar Bergman  •  The Square, dir. Ruben Östlund    Three Coins in the Fountain, dir. John Negulesco  •  Three Colors Trilogy, dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski  •  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, dir. Tomas Alfredson   Twelfth Night, dirs. Kenneth Branagh  •  The Two Faces of January, dir. Hossein Amini   •  Vanya on 42nd Street, dir. Louis Malle  • The Violin, dir. Francisco Vargas  • What's Up, Doc?, dir. Peter Bogdanovich    The White Ribbon, dir. Michael Haneke    Wise Blood, dir. John Huston

START TO FINISH: NINE ALBUMS FOR 2019

MUSIC

The Dharma At Big Sur, John Adams; Nonesuch Records, 2006.

Kind of Blue: Legacy Edition; Miles Davis; Sony BMG, 1959.

The Big Broadcast: 1920's Jazz Recordings; Rivermont, 2005.

Trouble; Ray LaMontagne; Stone Dwarf, 2004.

Rare & Unreleased: Aretha Franklin; Atlantic Recording Corp, 2007.

Reich: The Four Sections, Steve Reich; Nonesuch Records, 2014. 

Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works, Max Richter; Deutsche Grammophon, 2017.

History: America; Warner Brothers, 1975.

Zomba Prison Project: I Will Not Stop Singing; Six Degrees Records, 2016.

ONLINE GOODIE-BAGS: FAVORITE FREE RESOURCES

GOODIE BAGS

The New York Public Library Digital Archives

Explore the Planet: Google Earth's Showcase

MIT's Global Shakespeare Archive

Poetry Foundation's Online Collection

Stream Classic Films with your Library Card: Kanopy

Designspiration

NYPL's Jerome Robbins Digital Dance Archive

ZenHabits

Google's Arts & Culture

Ovrtur's Digital Musical Theater Archive

The Metropolitan Opera's Video Archive Database

Free & Open Yale Courses

Tour The Louvre

IDEO's Design View of the Universe

John Berger's Ways of Seeing 1972 BBC Special

DREAM BIG: RESOURCES FOR YOUNG ARTISTS

YA

Louisiana Channel's 8 Artists: Advice to Young Artists

National YoungArts Foundation

The Kennedy Center's ArtsEdge Archive and Access Website

Americans For The Arts: Young Artists Resources

WorldStudio Foundation

     

And... everything listed below 

HOPE CANDY: SPEECHES & AMMO FOR DARK DAYS

SPEECHES
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