There is nothing like teaching and seeing someone “get it.” You put your heart and soul into sharing an experience or skill and when someone applies it well, it fills your bucket and reinforces why you do what you do. It’s also so cool when your student is young, willing, smart and adorable. Haruka Fujihara…

It is amazing how things change over time. Like fine wine, Howard and the perception of Howard have mellowed and at 62 years old, he is viewed as an elder statesman, revered by a generation of young comics, actors and broadcasters. I remember when he hit the air in NYC on WNBC and radio changed…

Like a lot of people these days, I find it much easier to wait for movies to be available on demand, but this year I jumped in and have seen a bunch of the major Oscar contenders. Which brings me to Whiplash. Dos Pulgares Arriba…Two Thumbs Up! The movie had a strong personal connection for…

Sometimes I think of football players as modern day gladiators and the Super Bowl is clearly the biggest event within that space. How does this event compare to the biggest gladiator event of Roman Times? Before Twitter, Instant Replay, Gatorade, Electricity…even before Deflategate…before almost everything!!! In A.D. 107, the Roman Emperor Trajan entertained the people…

Sometimes you meet people that just have “it.” Hard to put your finger on what that is, but to me “it” has to do with a few things: authenticity, character and talent. It helps when this person also makes people around them better and happier…this infectious combination is embodied in my friend Adrianne Rubenstein. Four…

One of the things I find amazing is the way we process things and often create dual messages out of concepts that really ought to have a singular meaning. This clearly applies to the holiday season and I thought it would be cool to share a Monday Thought about this. Quite often the holidays conjure…

It’s about people. What we do everyday is about getting inside people’s brains to scratch around a bit. You don’t just wake up one day and become a great artist…or writer…or musician. It takes time, patience and some god given talent. And if you reinforce the right things along the way, you will certainly demonstrate…

This past Saturday was a truly special day. In celebration of our new exhibition 12”, we had teens from the School of Rock in Tenafly play an acoustic set at the gallery. It happened to be during our Advanced Teen Art Class and it gave us a chance to have those students work on a…

Watching TV is a huge challenge for me no matter how innovative the show may seem. Last night I sat down to watch Homeland (episode 4…I’m behind) and found my thoughts drifting away every ten minutes. No matter how hard they tried to build drama, I just wasn’t going to buy in. This is my…

Part of my mission at One River is to close the cultural gap by sharing the stories of inspiring artists with our students and our community at large. Last year, I was walking through the Frieze Art Fair in NY and stumbled onto something that stopped me in my tracks. You know that feeling when…