Every Monday I start my work-week with a series of new goals and tasks as if I am playing a new game each week. Lets face it, no matter how much we want to change our lives, creating better outcomes requires creating new strategies to deal with the matters at…

I love when this happens. Saturday morning I opened the NY Times and there it was, another article about how important it is for us to raise creative kids.  For someone who has spent the last ten years in creative education this is music to my ears. As we hurl…

Yesterday Peyton Manning became the oldest starting quarterback to lead his team to the Super Bowl. He will be 40 in March…wouldn’t it be amazing if Peyton Manning wins it! Lets face it, we love to see our matinee stars ride off into the sunset and there could be no…

David Bowie was an artist. It is that simple. Like most amazing artists, he was ahead of his time and not always well understood. He pushed the boundaries in all aspects: musically, visually, socially and of course through performance.  When I was growing up, I remember Rebel Rebel and Suffragette…

Talk to any songwriter and they can’t always tell you why one of their songs is better than the others. The same thing goes for painting or visual arts. You make a lot of objects and once in awhile you have a breakthrough.  Andrea Williams has been taking our adult…

There seems to be more and more interest in art collecting today and I am thrilled about it. For one, we are embarking on our most ambitious year of exhibitions beginning next week with our first opening of the year featuring work from Ryan Schneider. Ryan is one of a…

Life works in very mysterious ways. I have always been a fanatic for Frank Zappa. Never the most popular music, I often ruined many college parties by switching the music from Springsteen to Zappa…lets just say all the girls left the room instantaneously! The other day someone asked what inspired…

One of the coolest things we have done at One River is program world-class exhibitions in Englewood, NJ. It’s a central part of our mission to close the culture gap that exists between the city and suburbia.  Now we are announcing a brand new program for 2016 that will bring…

Last summer I finally made it to Paris and the city was beautiful beyond compare.  Everyone had told me how amazing the place was but I could never feel what it was like until I had a chance to roam the streets and truly experience it first hand.  Over the…