December 31, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      With the new year – 2024! – upon us and the hope that humanism will again push aside the withering worldwide, nationwide, even at points local, we turn to… Continue reading

December 25, 2023 This is my son’s annual holiday story, which he has written in this space for many seasons. This year it is culled from favorites. By Arthur H. Gunther IV There was too much science.  Too much math.  There… Continue reading

(Gunther photo) December 17, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com       Early ice is relative in this part of the world – Harriman State Park, about 25 miles from the ever-hot glow of Times Square. Climate change… Continue reading

December 10, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Gunther photo There probably isn’t a unflattering photograph, sketch, watercolor, pastel or oil painting of the Nyack, N.Y., birthplace home of Edward Hopper, the American artist. Until at least… Continue reading

December 3, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      December 3, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Newspapers are – were – inimitable in our existence for my father and grandfather and seemingly the world,… Continue reading

November 26, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      I took a whiff of an apple, a simple thing, and it made all the difference.      Passing the kitchen counter, seeing a basket of fruit from a… Continue reading

‘ALEXANDRA’S ROOM AT THE HOPPER/gunther November 19, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III           For a time, the Edward Hopper House, a museum and study center in Nyack, N.Y., had a particular rescuer who came during… Continue reading

‘ILLUMINATION AT THE DOOR’/ gunther November 12, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      This is a “mad-as-hell” painting. Forget the style, the competence of the artist. Just – please – look at the doorway to what is… Continue reading

November 5, 2023 Gunther photo By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      There is the birth house of a famous American painter nestled in the Hudson River village of Nyack, N.Y., above Gotham but not of that city although… Continue reading

October 29, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      There is – can be – a moment lying in an old iron bed of the very early 1900s, mattress high off the wooden floor, fall morning after a… Continue reading