Updates to the Forgotten Delights Site

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7/17/08 Added note about upcoming articles in The Objective Standard, and noted that all Forgotten Delights walking tours are postponed indefinitely.

7/6/08 revised dates for Forgotten Delights sculpture tours

6/13/08 added history of sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art tour for 7/3/08, 9:45 a.m.

5/20/08 Uploaded information on the Upward Glance Screensaver: A New Yorker's Look at New York. Noted that first Forgotten Delights / Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan walking tour postponed due to rain from 5/18 to 6/15.

5/3/08 Updated list of upcoming lectures and tours; uploaded press releases.

4/5/08 Added a note to the April Titanic salute re the Wireless Operators Monument.

4/2/08 Uploaded 6 essays written in 2005-2006 for Quent Cordair Fine Art: on the 2005 Turner Prize, on landscapes, on still lifes, and 3 on analyzing and evaluating films (part 1, part 2, part 3).

4/1/08 Transcription services for authors and researchers

3/15/08 Descriptions of upcoming tours and lectures: History of Western Painting and Sculpture (online), Battery Park Sculptures and the World Trade Center Memorial; series of tours of  sculptures from Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide (with out-takes and additional works).

2/25/08 Images added to description of History of Sculpture Tour at the Metropolitan Museum.

2/16/08 Page listing live tours offered in New York City by Dianne Durante: currently the History of Sculpture using examples in the Metropolitan Museum.

1/20/08 Fearless Foreign Food articles on the Cayman Islands, Jamaica and the Yucatan, Mexico (Cozumel, Cancun, etc.)

12/18/07 Digital Photography School post on photographing outdoor sculpture appeared; for the photos, click here.

11/30/08 Uploaded thumbnail of a Forgotten Delights Christmas card to the end of the Notecards page. To see a large image and to purchase, click here.

8/29/07 Added link to Joseph Kellard's review of Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan, on his American Individualist blog. For this and other reviews and mentions of OMOM, click here.

8/10/07 Added references in New York Sculpture index to works at St. Mark's in the Bowery and Tompkins Square Park: Inspiration, Aspiration, Lady of the Dew, Peter Stuyvesant, Hebe / Temperance, General Slocum Memorial, and Samuel Cox. Began to add thumbnail photos to the NY Sculpture index.

8/9/07 Tips for photographing New York's outdoor sculptures, a modified and condensed version of an earlier essay on photographing sculpture

7/21/07 The Washington Irving bust at Irving Place is mentioned in a blog entry, with a good photo.

7/21/07 Added links on New York Sculpture index to works recently mentioned on the Forgotten Delights blog: Abingdon Memorial, Jagiello, Greenpoint War Memorial.

7/17/07 Added excerpt from New York Times City Room blog, 7/12/07: "Christopher Columbus Gets a Facelift," by Sewell Chan, with a reference to Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan (read it online)

6/16/07 Uploaded greatly expanded list of outdoor representational sculptures in Manhattan and part of Brooklyn.

5/19/07 Selection of note cards with images of New York sculpture, including Father's Day, 4th of July, Thinking of you, To thine own self be true, Damn the torpedoes, Don't give up, Greetings from Manhattan, Greetings from Brooklyn, and (with numbers rather than a photo) Happy Anniversary

5/15/07 Bibliography & out-takes for Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan Essay 7: Horace Greeley

5/10/07 Graduation card with Alma Mater and quote from Owen Young on education and integration

5/4/07 Bibliography & out-takes for Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan Essay 6: Washington at Wall St.

4/20/07 Added excerpts from the review of Outdoor Monuments in the New York Sun (4/20/07)

4/19/07 Added to the Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan page: Why you need to read Outdoor Monuments if you're an avid and insatiably curious reader - tourist - New Yorker - historian or history buff - art lover, art historian or art critic - gallery owner or museum staff member - librarian - Objectivist

4/15/07 Added some reviews, mentions & comments on Outdoor Monuments to the OMOM page. Add a URL for a Google map page showing locations of the 54 sculptures in Outdoor Monuments.

4/10/07 FAQ #5: Why do you use Ayn Rand's esthetics as the basis for your writing?

4/5/07 Bibliography and out-takes for Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan, Essay 5: Charging Bull

3/29/07 Trophies, or What do the Worth Monument and Melania Trump have in common?

3/16/07 Bibliography and discussion questions for Outdoor Monuments, Essay 4: the Continents

3/8/07 Manhattan sculpture quiz: 18 questions to test your knowledge of Manhattan's sculptures and the people they represent

3/2/07 Essay: "Reflecting on Reflecting Absence" (the winning entry for the World Trade Center memorial)

3/1/07 Bibliography and discussion questions for Outdoor Monuments, Essay 3: Giovanni da Verrazzano

2/24/07 Bibliography and out-takes for Outdoor Monuments, Essay 2: John Ericsson

2/20/07 Bibliography and out-takes for Outdoor Monuments, Essay 1: Statue of Liberty, plus the index page for future bibliography uploads.

2/1/07 Added reviews of Outdoor Monuments from the New York Times, Sculpture magazine, etc.

1/15/07 Added a page of links to the site.

12/23/06 Started an author's blog for Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan. Each day I'll post a paragraph or two on one of the 54 essays: why I chose particular topics for "About the Sculpture" and "About the Subject," what I found most surprising when doing the research, and/or what I most regretted deleting during the editing process. Read the blog at http://forgottendelights.blogspot.com/ . You can sign up to be notified when I post to the blog by clicking on the "Subscribe to Posts (Atom)" link at the bottom of the page. Once a week I plan to send a compilation of all the blog posts to the Forgotten Delights mailing list. (Until I've finished posting on the 54 essays in late February, there will probably be few additions to the Forgotten Delights website.)

12/14/06 The Case of the Ponderously Peripatetic Sculptures: Manship's Reliefs from the New York Coliseum

12/02/06 Uploaded podcast on Battery Park war memorials and the World Trade Center memorial.

11/22/06 Uploaded the finalized cover design of Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide (see image at right).

11/14/06 FAQs 3 & 4: How did you get interested in outdoor representational sculptures in New York, and What happened to the rest of the Forgotten Delights series?

11/03/06 Francis Morrone mentioned Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan in his New York Sun review of an exhibition at the Gerald Peters Gallery. See “An Icon of the City Gets an Opening." If you don't subscribe to the Sun, the relevant text is: "After the Statue of Liberty, perhaps the most famous public sculpture in New York is Rockefeller Center's Prometheus, who adorns the Lower Plaza. Prometheus, bearer of fire from gods to man, fell afoul of Zeus and was condemned to an eternity of having his liver plucked at by birds. The sculpture has also received some plucks. As Dianne Durante wisely notes in her new book, "Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan," it's really, really hard to do a statue of a man flying — especially when he doesn't have wings. Consequently, Prometheus looks rather as though he is doing the sidestroke."

10/26/06 First 2 questions in a series of FAQs: Why should you care about sculptures of dead white guys, and Why should you care about New York City sculpture if you don't live here and never plan to visit?

9/27/06 Forgotten Delights calendar, October 2006 through December 2007, in PDF format. Photographs of 15 of the 54 sculptures that will appear in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide, with thought-provoking quotations. FREE!

8/2/06 Salute: Four Periods of Publicity.

6/16/06  Landscapes: History and Significance, a 2400-word article

5/28/06 Catalogue description for Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan, slated to appear in February 2007 from New York University Press

5/11/06 Puck and Puck

3/29/06 Still Lifes: History and Significance, a 1300-word article (scroll to the bottom of the list)

3/11/06: Balto and the Iditarod Race (and other sculptures by George Richard Roth)

2/16/06 Speaking of blizzards ... (Roscoe Conkling and the Blizzard of 1888)

1/31/06 Best Picture - Says Who? A look at the nomination process for Best Picture Oscar.

12/15/05 Review of The Narnia Chronicles: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (on the website of Quent Cordair Fine Art). The review is followed by a lengthy essay (2,500+ words) on how to write a movie review.

11/27/05 The Turner Prize 2005: English Art in Plain American (appears on the website of Quent Cordair Fine Art)

10/31/05 Theodore Roosevelt's Review of the 1913 Armory Show

9/25/05 Mystery sculptures at Rockefeller Plaza

9/9/05 "Sound and fury" (Metronome)

8/12/05 City Beautiful Movement, part 3 (Manhattan's First Bolivar)

7/8/2005 City Beautiful Movement, part 2 (Surrogate's Court)

6/16/05 City Beautiful Movement, part 1 (Pulitzer Memorial Fountain)

5/13/05 Completely Unprofessional Notes on Photographing Outdoor Sculpture

5/3/05 Salute to the Great God Pan.

4/20/05 P.G. Wodehouse on the income tax (1919).

4/17/05 Salute to the New York Stock Exchange pediment: Integrity Protecting the Works of Man.

4/10/05 Musician Photos: Duke Ellington, Victor Herbert, Richard Tucker, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber.

3/25/05 Salute to Lincoln. Essay on nuclear power.

3/7/05 Salute to Daniel Webster. Musician photos: Dvorak and Grieg.

3/3/05 Information on Annotated Art Essay 4: Looking at Drawings

3/1/05 Information on Annotated Art Essay 3: Detailed Analysis of Holbein's Sir Thomas More (Frick Collection).

2/26/05 Annotated Art Essay 2: Why Do Detailed Analysis of Paintings or Sculpture?

2/22/05 Salute to Jose de San Martin. Addendum to Christo essay.

2/12/05 Valentine's Day greeting, Annotated Art essay page, Annotated Art Essay #1: Subject vs. Theme (paintings of Oedipus and the Sphinx by Ingres and Moreau)

2/8/05: Salute to General Winfield Scott Hancock, plus 7 photos of the Verdi monument.

1/28/05 Added a page of photos of the Beethoven busts in Central Park and Prospect Park.

1/15/05 Salute: On studying history.

1/6/05 Salutes to Richard Tucker and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.

12/30/04 Salute to Alfred E. Smith. New Year's Greetings 2005.

12/16/04 Salute to Alexander Hamilton.

12/09/04 Salute to Fiorello LaGuardia.

12/01/2004 Updated Dream Tour list of museum exhibitions.

11/17/04 Salutes to Chester A. Arthur and Fitz-Greene Halleck.

10/24/04 Added links to photos of the Rogers Lincoln in Philadelphia to the Seward salute.

10/22/04 Salute to Seward and comments on the 107th Infantry Monument.

10/19/04 Added information on transcript of Hamilton walking tour, with a substantial excerpt.

10/15/04 Updated Dream Tour list of museum exhibitions.

10/11/04 Columbus Day greeting.

9/20/04 Salute to Sherman (re the evacuation of Atlanta). Added photo of Nathan Hale to the September 22, 1776 salute.

9/16/04 Salute to Dante Alighieri.

9/11/04 op-ed on 9/11 memorial at Shanksville, PA.

9/8/04 Salute to Antonin Dvorak.

9/2/04 Updated the Dream Tour, which will henceforth replace the full list of museum exhibitions of representational art. Added a searchable page of museum URLs and telephone numbers for institutions that have had exhibitions of representational art 2001-2004. Added Labor Day Greeting.

8/27/04 Salute to Peter Stuyvesant.

8/19/04 Walking tour of Alexander Hamilton sculptures in Manhattan. For more on my upcoming lecture on Hamilton sculptures, click here or visit http://www.nyheroes.org

8/15/04 Salute to Sir Walter Scott.

8/5/04 Salute to Farragut's capture of Mobile Bay. New page listing walking tours.

8/3/04 Updates to Museum Exhibitions page.

7/30/04 Walking tour of animal sculptures in Manhattan: letter size (3 pp.) or legal size (2 pp.).

715/04 Salute to King Jagiello of Poland. Revamped home page.

7/3/04 Updates to Museum Exhibitions page, including the Dream Tour. Salutes to Garibaldi and Independence Day.

6/24/04 Salute to Bolivar and the Battle of Carabobo.

6/17/04 Salute to Ethel Barrymore.

6/5/04 Salute to Edwin Booth.

6/3/04 Updates to Museum Exhibitions page, including the Dream Tour.

5/29/04 Salute to Mary Pickford.

5/24/04 Salute to Samuel F.B. Morse.

5/19/04 Salute to Jose Marti.

4/29/04 Updates to Museum Exhibitions page, including the Dream Tour.

4/28/04 Salutes to the inauguration of George Washington and the Louisiana Purchase by Thomas Jefferson.

4/21/04 Salute to the Flanders Field Memorial (Second Battle of Ypres, April-May 1915).

4/14/04 Salutes to the Titanic (the Stead and Straus Memorials and the Titanic Memorial Lighthouse) and Verrazzano.

4/1/04 Updates to Museum Exhibitions. Salute to Spring (Untermeyer and Burnett Fountains).

3/27/04 Salute to Ludwig van Beethoven.

3/23/04 Salutes to Goethe and Thorvaldsen. Walking Tour flyer: Figures from American History to 1800.

3/13/04 Salute to Justice, on top of City Hall.

3/10/04 Added Salute to Giuseppe Mazzini, also information on 3/28/04 walking tour in Battery Park (sponsored by the New York Heroes Society) and "How to Look at and Evaluate Sculpture: An Objective Method" (sponsored by the New York Objectivist Club).

3/6/04 First edition of Forgotten Delights: The Producers on sale for $10 (2/$15), while quantities last.

3/2/04 Added Salute to the current Bull Market.

2/26/04 Updated museum exhibitions and Dream Tour for March.

2/25/04 Added Salutes to Thomas Moore and Jackie Gleason (with contest to win a copy of Forgotten Delights: The Producers).

2/2/04 Added page with articles on World Trade Center memorial.

2/1/04 Added Salutes to Horace Greeley, the explosion of the Maine, and Lafayette's non-invasion of Canada.

1/24/04 Updated museum exhibitions for February and Salutes for Robert Burns (b. 1/25/1759) and Giuseppe Verdi (d. 1/25/1901).

1/19/04 Link to Francis Morrone's "Abroad in New York" article mentioning this site and Forgotten Delights: The Producers: http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/ml.asp?Issue=NYS/2004/01/19&ID=Ar01802&Mode=HTML. Link to Dianne Durante's op-ed, "WTC Memorial Should Celebrate America's Producers," released by the Ayn Rand Institute 1/15/04 (http://www.aynrand.org/medialink/911memorial2004.shtml).

1/16/04 Added an index of all New York City sculptures mentioned so far on this site. Added Salutes to Joan of Arc and Benjamin Franklin. A few changes to About This Site and Lectures, including news of upcoming lecture on sculpture at the New York Objectivist Club, Spring 2004. Added another option for purchase of Forgotten Delights: The Producers, via search on www.FetchBook.info, plus news on the ebook version.

1/11/04 Revised information / order page for Forgotten Delights: The Producers, with new reduced price and option of ordering via Amazon.com or purchasing at New York bookstores, as well as from this site.

12/27/03 January 2004 Museum Exhibitions uploaded. Dream Tour updated. Recommended readings added to Notes on Self-Publishing. This page of Updates to Site added.

12/24/03 December 2003 Museum Exhibitions. Notes on Self-Publishing (or, "Why the December 2003 Exhibition list appeared on Dec. 23rd rather than Dec. 1"). Salute on Arthur Brisbane (see if he reminds you of Gail Wynand).

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