Veterans Day Celebration

Veterans Day congers up the memory of Japan's surrender in WWII and the reaction of Americans to the end of the war. Tomorrow in New York, 'the nurse' in Alfred Eisenstaedt's most famous photograph of WWII is the grand marshal of the NYC Veterans Day Parade. She will be dressed in her 'whites' as she says she was in Times Square that memorable day. Since Eisenstaedt did not know the sailor and the nurse in his photograph, will we ever know the true identities. Indeed, we certainly can collect this iconic photograph to keep this day alive from generations to generations.

Fall Edition of Art Quarterly is now online

Living a simple, elegant lifestyle is inclusive with the fine arts. The latest edition of The Art Quarterly is now available for download. Features include: "America in All Her Grandeur - The Solo Exhibit of Jay Wolf Schlossberg-Cohen"; Photographers Joshua Barash and Howard Schatz's exploration with emerging techniques; and holiday options and MARKET TWO opportunities.

Leaders and Their Followers

Today we experience a new America as Barack Obama is now President-elect of the United States. Watching Charlie Rose and his guests talk about the election, I was struck by the statement of Bernard Henri-Levy (philosopher, activist, journalist, filmmaker, author of "Who Killed Daniel Pearl") as he joined in with the discussion of the pundits, historians, and friends of Obama. He said that the uniqueness of Obama is that he stands on the shoulders of Martin Luther King, who stood on the shoulders of John F. Kennedy. The panel also discussed the historical significance that the 44th president will be an African American, but that this African American is the one who will assume this mantel of responsibility. How appropriate that his acceptance speach was in the footsteps of MLK -shown by Photographer Ted Williams, in his 1966 Chicago Rally.