Well, I'm not much of a football fan, but I couldn't resist the opportunity to employ a 'Friday Night Lights' headline.
Actually, the dance performance I attended at Madison Square Park tonight took place under mostly natural light, this being the time of long days and late sunsets in the northern hemisphere. Tonights performance featured dancers from David Dorfman Dance, the Francesca Harper Project, URBAN/TRIBE, and Earl Moseley's Institute for the Arts.
And on my walk home I took advantage of the Friday night free admission at the Morgan Library to take in their Walt Whitman exhibit. This year being the 200th anniversary of Whitman's birth, there have been a lot of Whitman events and exhibits happening. Unfortunately, I keep finding myself in the wrong place at the wrong time and so I miss the readings and tribute events. But the Morgan exhibit, while modest in scope, was a delight to see.
It complements another Whitman exhibit at the New York Public Library's main building right beside Bryant Park. (free all the time!) Both exhibits focus heavily on Leaves of Grass, and both include manuscripts and some handwritten letters and drafts by Whitman. Both also devote space to Whitman's influence on other writers and artists.
So now that I've whetted my appetite, I think I should commit myself to reading aloud the entire Leaves of Grass manuscript, something I don't think I've ever done.
