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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 hand. Back in 1991,…
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 through another political cycle and…
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 greater ending than watching Peyton…
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 City hitting the radio and…
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 art classes since we opened here…
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 series of eight artists that…
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 me to open One River…
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 national awareness and exposure to…
At 89 years old, Frank Stella may be the most important living American artist. His prolific output from the mid-1950s to the present is unparalleled for its boldness in form and color. It is really hard to create iconic artwork. Think about it…can you name a few artists who comes to mind? Warhol? Basquiat? Older…
