The Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation: AMNH

We visited the newest wing of the American Museum of Natural History, The Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation on Friday after my husband shared photos of the atrium’s signature biomorphic shapes. A sucker for organic shapes, in any art form, the pull to check it out felt strong. Disappoint it did not. […]

Repetition: Severance and Bell Labs

Last Fall I binged, Severance, Created by Dan Erickson, Red Hour Productions and Fifth Episode, 2022 (Apple TV+). It was unlike anything I had ever seen. I always try to deliberately know as little as possible about a show, a film, or a book so as to be surprised by what unfolds. It took me […]

‘Up Up and Away!’ TWA Hotel at JFK

Perhaps it’s my childhood of 1970’s suburban Washington, D.C., as well as my fondness for organic forms in art and architecture. Or maybe it’s my love of traveling to new places. But there’s something about the recently transformed, Saarinen-designed Landmark TWA Flight Center, the TWA Hotel, that makes my heart soar. Growing up in Reston, […]