Ruben Safir: CEO of Brooklyn
Brooklyn Fishing
Description: The hypothesis is that if we can save a single life by a radical action, then we are justified and have a moral obligation to do so. This is fundamentally wrong. It is lovely sounding rhetoric, but it is impossible.
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Brooklyn Living is the website for Brooklynites and visitors to discover the rich cultural roots of our city and to understand how it is changing into the middle of the 21st century.
The pandemic is slowly receding and life is returning. The cultural landscape of the Borough and the City looks like the scraped granite and arêtes that are left behind retreating glaciers. I've been to the Metropolitan Museum of Art 4 times, trying to cover as much of it as possible. There is an odd and dysfunctional attempt to make the museum more "Woke". The effort usually results in the replacement of one kind of persistent racism with another. It doesn't result in an improved museum and the customer ba
On the second trip I went to see the Greek and Roman section, and the statues. The Met has an interesting exhibit on the painting of Greek statues in ancient times, which is mostly in the Mezzanine marked as the Etruscan Arts area. I did not hit this spot on this trip, but did see it later. I did hit the Tudor's exhibit, which was very popular but which I found to be largely drab. We then also viewed an exhibit on the relationship between Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition, which was eh. More exciting w
Ruben Safir: CEO of Brooklyn
Brooklyn Fishing