Lloyd & Ruth | portraits in NYC

 

Photos of Lloyd Wolf by Ruth Stromberg

Tine's party in NYC

Ruth and I went to New York last weekend to help celebrate our friend Tine Kindermann's 60th birthday. Lots of klezmer folks were around: Pete Rushevsky, Zalman Mlotek, Sarah Gordon, Lorin Sklamberg, Lisa Gutkin, Steve Weintraub, Joanne Borts, Jeff Toretsky, and probably a bunch of others I missed in the swirl of the festivities. Of course, her husband Frank London was vibing big time. It was great to see their kids, Louis and Anna (and to encounter some of her massive doll head pieces (Tine's a terrific artist). A freylikhe time was had by all.

Enjoy.

Times Square NYC

Quite a town.

Train 82 to New York City: A continued conversation with Albrecht Dürer.

In the early 1970's, I regularly took the train between Washington, DC and Trinity College, the school I attended in Hartford, Connecticut. To relieve the tedium and to amuse myself, I often conducted extended imaginary conversations with the great German artist of the late Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer. I would point out the things that had changed in the world, and we would observe the rough and tumble industrial landscape of the mid-Atlantic route. I would imagine him talking about what he would sketch, and what he thought of things. I very much enjoyed these inner exchanges.
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On May 21, 2022, my partner Ruth and I took Amtrak train 82 from Washington DC to New York, covering much of the same route as I had years ago. We were headed to the sixtieth birthday party of our friend, the German-born artist, Tine Kindermann.
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I took up my conversation with Dürer again right where we had left off.
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These pictures are a record of sorts of what transpired.

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