Ann Mintz
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From Midtown &Uncategorized about Disguises, in the office, Money, Music, musicians, Old New YorkPublished on: 12/01/2011
Ann Mintz has written radio scripts, text for museum exhibits, professional articles, and countless speeches and grant proposals. She has had seven careers-- recording engineer, archaeologist, public radio producer, archivist to Bucky Fuller, of all people, museum professional, community and economic development. She now curates the performing arts at the Reading Terminal Market. She has lived in seven cities, if you count Phladelphia twice, was born in the Bronx and lived in Manhattan until her mid-20s.
Insects The following is a contemporary take on the medieval bestiary, featuring descriptions and characterizations of the actual and apocryphal creatures that share our constricted urban space. This second installment is devoted to insects. Stomped, smoked out, asphyxiated, and trampled underfoot, they elicit a degree of fear and disgust disproportionate to their size. Quietly going […]
Around two years ago, I’m walking down Broadway and once again I encounter Mickey Mouse. (Not the actual Mickey—he’s either passed on to the rodent afterlife or is living in a fancy retirement resort on a golf course in Nevada). This version of Mickey I’m talking about (which disappeared during Covid) was a very large […]
A little boy sits on the wood floor. In a small room with a rocking horse in the corner. A stuffed teddy bear is on his pillow. There is a small soft blanket, the one he holds at night, in a chair. The smell of the room is comforting. Twenty years later, standing in the […]
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