Nearly two decades ago, I attended a gallery opening with my then-boyfriend Sabin Howard. Sabin introduced a slim, bright-eyed man with an elfin, perspicacious gleam. Sabin said, “John is a painter.” Sotto voce, to me alone, he added, “A good one.” Rare words of praise from my discerning husband. Sabin…

Eleven figures from Sabin Howard’s A Soldier’s Journey have set forth on their voyage to the foundry overseas. Everyone in the studio felt the absence of our loved and sculpted friends: the Daughter, Kneeling Dad, Standing Mom, Heroic Mom, Departing Dad, and the various sprightly doughboys.

Over there, over there, Send the word, send the word over there That the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming The drums rum — tumming everywhere. -“Over There” by George M. Cohan, 1917 Sculptor Sabin Howard is preparing to ship eight doughboys, a little girl, and two iterations of…

Two years ago, 23andMe informed me that I was fully, shockingly, 26.1% Ashkenazim Jewish. One-quarter. I had a Jewish grandparent. My personal story of discovering that I wasn’t who I thought I was, because my father wasn’t who he thought he was, and perhaps that was the reason he was…

I had the happy fortune to meet Budd Hopkins before he died. We shared a mutual friend, an elderly journalist, a skeptic, who had read the Project Blue Book materials with Budd. I met Budd again through the auspices of my husband sculptor Sabin Howard. Many people know Budd Hopkins…

In 2015, I watched a YouTube video of an unhinged Yale mob confronting a professor. One young woman in particular screamed wildly and then stormed away in tears. The young woman’s distress was palpable, heart-wrenching. So was the mob’s unreasoning rage toward a professor who was doing his best to…

Five months into principle sculpture on A Soldier’s Journey, the 58’ long figurative relief commemorating WWI, we have settled into a warm rhythm in the studio. Workday mornings start with coffee and conversation around the kitchen area. Then the models peel off to change into their uniforms while the sculptors…

Through the good auspices of two young actor friends, Luke Slattery and Paul-Emile Cendron, I attended a screening of 1917 at the Director’s Guild of America. 1917 tells the story of two soldiers on a near-suicide mission to prevent the slaughter of sixteen hundred of their brothers-in-arms. Their journey through…

The rather brilliant Milene Fernandez hosted an evocative panel Friday night at the Salmagundi Club in Manhattan. The topic concerned “The Responsibility of the Artist in the 21st Century.” Milene’s panelists were Judith Kudlow, a painter and founder of the atelier The Harlem Studio of Art; portrait artist and painter…