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…

Now that I have spent the last ten years trying to improve creative education around the world, I find myself constantly thinking about what makes our brains tick? I never had the science skills to become a doctor but somehow I wound up earning a doctorate in human observation. And,…

Todays Mets are cool! How did this happen??? Young, free spirited and built with the real conviction that comes with being fearless, this newfangled form is an amazingly better, millennial version of this franchise. Talk about brand reinvention…The Mets are cool…how in the world could this be???  I am not…

In the past few years, I have become a collector and friend of the artist Alexander Tovborg. This past Saturday Alexander taught a master class for our Advanced Teen Artists @ One River School. Watching Alexander work with our teens took me back to the very premise I had four…