By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com This isn’t the time of year to discuss holiday or other occasion cards, but a recent email from an artist friend in Colorado prompts a memory. She writes, “My latest ‘adapting’ kick is reworking… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com Ride a bicycle and you never forget. Years, decades later, and you hop on as if you were still the eight year old though your  joints may creak more than the bicycle chain. Not that… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com A photo of a dress from a London shop, blue and black, made its viral way around the Internet last week because some people saw it as white and gold, or hues that approached… Continue reading

Completed bedroom. Note the window light. By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com      82 North Broadway, Nyack, N.Y. — When you paint in a great artist’s childhood bedroom, in space where the Hudson light seems a direct path from Heaven,… Continue reading

  By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Here’s a story. A very human story. One that might remind you of your mom. And a cold day. And simple soup. And a complex world. We have been having old-fashioned winter in… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Sometimes a person comes along as if the moment were a conversation with a plane passenger whom you’ve just met and who will soon move on to her own destination. Yet, however short the… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com Being bored is good, kids. Skip the video game, the phone, the computer and all the scheduled activity. Take a walk, sit under a tree, in a library corner. Climb a branch (safely), go down… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com NEW YORK STATE — As this being written, a “blizzard” is clipping its way toward my section of the nation. “Blizzard” is a big word here, quite unlike in some other states. The new… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com It’s all about the middle class, and it’s not a selfish thing. The people in the middle historically prove to be the rescuers of both the lower and upper classes, the lower because when… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com NYACK, N.Y. — Helen Hayes, once and for a long time the “First Lady of the American Theatre,” soon will no longer have her distinguished name on Broadway. The Helen Hayes Theatre on West… Continue reading