Shail and Wamble
@shailandwamble.bsky.social
Get a library card. Go to a museum. Watch a movie older than you.
COFFEE, RUN, BIKE I’m an early riser, around 6 a.m. or earlier. I’ll drink a gallon of coffee — French press with regular milk — before I even get started… so no breakfast, but maybe a piece of biscotto.
How a Floral Design Master Spends His Day With Roses and Rosé
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July 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
COFFEE, RUN, BIKE I’m an early riser, around 6 a.m. or earlier. I’ll drink a gallon of coffee — French press with regular milk — before I even get started… so no breakfast, but maybe a piece of biscotto.
Curator/historian Joshua Stoff said: “The wartime contribution on Long Island is just amazing — for aircraft, especially -Long Island really was a focal point of American production during World War II. What happened here affected the front lines everywhere.”
(www.newsday.com/long-island/...)
(www.newsday.com/long-island/...)
July 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Curator/historian Joshua Stoff said: “The wartime contribution on Long Island is just amazing — for aircraft, especially -Long Island really was a focal point of American production during World War II. What happened here affected the front lines everywhere.”
(www.newsday.com/long-island/...)
(www.newsday.com/long-island/...)
Above all he hated seeing his plays performed with an audience.
“I find the experience very difficult. I love the moment when you have just the dress rehearsal, when no one’s there; that’s kind of the peak to me. When people start filing in, I like to file out.”
“I find the experience very difficult. I love the moment when you have just the dress rehearsal, when no one’s there; that’s kind of the peak to me. When people start filing in, I like to file out.”
Richard Greenberg, Playwright Whose ‘Take Me Out’ Won a Tony, Dies at 67
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July 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Above all he hated seeing his plays performed with an audience.
“I find the experience very difficult. I love the moment when you have just the dress rehearsal, when no one’s there; that’s kind of the peak to me. When people start filing in, I like to file out.”
“I find the experience very difficult. I love the moment when you have just the dress rehearsal, when no one’s there; that’s kind of the peak to me. When people start filing in, I like to file out.”
What makes Vermeer special is his ability to impart a nearly religious inwardness to everyday scenes. In a way, the glowing envelope in “Mistress and Maid” is a metaphor for his entire endeavor. Each of his paintings is an enclosed and sealed-off container of light.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/a...
Secret Love Letters Remain Sealed in Vermeer Show
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July 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
What makes Vermeer special is his ability to impart a nearly religious inwardness to everyday scenes. In a way, the glowing envelope in “Mistress and Maid” is a metaphor for his entire endeavor. Each of his paintings is an enclosed and sealed-off container of light.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/a...
“It’s an origin story that speaks to what I already felt impelled to do, to bring together past and present, and share that with others”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/a...
The ‘Accidental Archivist’ of the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
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July 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“It’s an origin story that speaks to what I already felt impelled to do, to bring together past and present, and share that with others”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/a...
March 17, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I love the public library. I love going to the library for my son, for myself. I love the smell of a library. I love that when you go to the children’s section, it’s not quiet. And I love reading those children’s books because when I was younger, my parents did not read children’s books to me.
Lucy Liu Thinks It’s Important to Make a Mess Sometimes
“That’s how creative things happen,” said the actress, one of the stars of the holiday film “Red One.”
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December 1, 2024 at 2:23 PM
I love the public library. I love going to the library for my son, for myself. I love the smell of a library. I love that when you go to the children’s section, it’s not quiet. And I love reading those children’s books because when I was younger, my parents did not read children’s books to me.
Belle da Costa Greene
A Librarian's Legacy
Morgan Library and Museum
“I knew definitely by the time I was twelve years old that I wanted to work with rare books. I loved them even then, the sight of them, the wonderful feel of them, the romance and the thrill of them.”
-BELLE DA COSTA GREENE
A Librarian's Legacy
Morgan Library and Museum
“I knew definitely by the time I was twelve years old that I wanted to work with rare books. I loved them even then, the sight of them, the wonderful feel of them, the romance and the thrill of them.”
-BELLE DA COSTA GREENE
November 17, 2024 at 12:18 AM
Belle da Costa Greene
A Librarian's Legacy
Morgan Library and Museum
“I knew definitely by the time I was twelve years old that I wanted to work with rare books. I loved them even then, the sight of them, the wonderful feel of them, the romance and the thrill of them.”
-BELLE DA COSTA GREENE
A Librarian's Legacy
Morgan Library and Museum
“I knew definitely by the time I was twelve years old that I wanted to work with rare books. I loved them even then, the sight of them, the wonderful feel of them, the romance and the thrill of them.”
-BELLE DA COSTA GREENE
Tacita Dean on Cy Twombly and her new survey
“I can’t draw in front of people,” Dean added. “It’s a very solitary thing.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/a...
“I can’t draw in front of people,” Dean added. “It’s a very solitary thing.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/a...
Tacita Dean Draws Her Way Into the Menil
In the artist’s first major U.S. museum survey, she bonds with Cy Twombly through works on paper, films and photographs.
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October 6, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Tacita Dean on Cy Twombly and her new survey
“I can’t draw in front of people,” Dean added. “It’s a very solitary thing.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/a...
“I can’t draw in front of people,” Dean added. “It’s a very solitary thing.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/a...
Some just look like period buildings from the outside, but then you go into the lobbies, and they have this magnificent stonework and metalwork and gratings and railings. And the aesthetic continues into the elevator…
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/18/t...
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/18/t...
Bebe Neuwirth on the Part of a Stage That Feels Like Home
“I love older theaters in particular,” said the actress, who is up for her third Tony for “Cabaret.” “The new ones don’t have as many ghosts.”
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May 26, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Some just look like period buildings from the outside, but then you go into the lobbies, and they have this magnificent stonework and metalwork and gratings and railings. And the aesthetic continues into the elevator…
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/18/t...
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/18/t...