A UNIQUE NEW INVENTION RELIEVES SKIN DISCOMFORT FOR WOMEN RECEIVING RADIATION TREATMENTS FOR BREAST CANCER

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 A UNIQUE NEW INVENTION RELIEVES SKIN DISCOMFORT

 

FOR WOMEN RECEIVING RADIATION TREATMENTS

 

FOR BREAST CANCER

 

New York, NY — Since the use of radiation became a tool for treating breast cancer tumors, millions of women have experienced significant discomfort from the treatment. The skin, where the breast meets the chest, often becomes inflamed and irritable. That discomfort not only exists during treatments, but continues for weeks after the treatment has been completed.

 

In the case of Elizabeth Silver, artist and cancer survivor, desperation as well as necessity was the mother of her invention: a breast sling that keeps a large breast from chafing against the chest wall.

 

She said: “While facing the daunting prospect of radiation treatment following my lumpectomy, I determined to minimize the side effects as best I could. I didn’t want to suffer through unnecessary irritations and inflammations. I decided to create a device that would prevent such problems. I wanted something that would have a soft cushion to soothe and protect my skin, so I devised a sling to wear around my neck with a cushion to tuck under my breast.

 

“Once I had created my sling, I put it on following my first treatment, before any side effects would occur. My routine was to remove my bra as soon as I came home and to wear the sling at every possible moment, even while sleeping. The result was surprisingly effective. By the end of my radiation therapy, I was neither raw nor sore. My radiologist and my oncologist were amazed, suggesting that I develop the slings so that more women could benefit from their protection. They described patients having tried various but unsuccessful home solutions to ease their discomfort; they did everything from tying fabric beneath their breasts and around their mid-section to wearing their husbands’ underwear under their breasts and over their shoulders. Nothing they tried worked.”

 

Prior to developing the sling, Silver spent considerable time researching various kinds of fabrics. She wanted one that was soft with wicking and antimicrobial qualities; in addition, the sling had to have straps that are soft yet firm. The slings had to stay in place and yet be loose enough to avoid pressure and constriction across the neck and under the breast. When a prototype was developed, Silver introduced the slings to several women. Each of them found the sling to be an ideal component for creating comfort during and after radiation treatments.

 

Here’s how it works: The ComfortSling^® Single Sling allows the breast to rest on a soft cushion giving free air circulation beneath the breast while wicking away perspiration to keep the sore areas dry. The cushion prevents excessive chafing of adjacent areas of skin beneath the breast; antimicrobial properties discourage bacteria growth. The non-stretch straps can be adjusted for comfort so there is no pressure to the sore areas beneath the breast or on the neck and shoulder.

 

Juliette Kent, a radiation oncology nurse, said the following about ComfortSling^® Single Sling: “Unlike a halter or backless bra, this device is not intended for aesthetics or visual enhancement but rather to buffer the harmful effects of constriction on radiation damaged skin and allow the area in question to breathe. A bra, which is intended to support and apply pressure, is damaging to radiated tissues. The ComfortSling® is created to buffer that pressure and allow circulatory enhancement, not pressure, thus allowing the damaged tissues a chance to heal. With the unique structure of the ComfortSling®, the skin can breathe as it is lifted off of the ribcage and there is no “support” device applying pressure.  I have seen nothing like it ever on the market. In the past, all I could suggest to my patients was to fold a wash cloth and hold it beneath the affected area which is not feasible unless at times of rest. The ComfortSling^® is a  unique and medically necessary device.,

 

For further information, please visit www.comfortslings.com or write to Elizabeth Silver at  elizabeth@comfortslings.com

 

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The Leiber Collection Invites Visitors to its Sculpture Garden

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THE LEIBER COLLECTION

 

INVITES VISITORS TO ITS SCULPTURE GARDEN

While the Leiber Collection is well-known to lovers of art and fashion, fewer people are familiar with the Collection’s sculpture garden. Placed with an artist’s sense of composition in a verdant landscape of trees, shrubs, and flowering plants are sculptures by the following artists: William King, Hans Van de Bovenkamp, Constantino Nivola, Ronnie Chalif, Calvin Albert, Jun Kaneko, and Gerson Leiber.

William King’s sculptures span countless media and are generally devoted to figurative portrayals of the human figure. Hans Van de Bovenkamp is renowned for his large sculptures created primarily for open-air public locales. Constantino Nivola’s sand- casted sculptures have been described as bas-relief sculptures in concrete, combining sculpture with architecture. Ronnie Chalif’s abstract sculptures have been inspired by the power and beauty of rocks and rock formations from many mountainous regions. Calvin Albert’s work combines abstraction and representation in figures that have a muscular form, and are noted for their spirit of serenity and tension. Jun Kaneko’s ceramic sculptures are a synthesis of painting and sculpture, displaying qualities that are enigmatic and elusive, restrained and powerful, eastern and western. Gerson Leiber is well known as a modernist painter and sculptor; he is represented in the sculpture garden by a large bronze, figurative piece on a concrete base; it is entitled The Human Condition. Modernism is the theme exemplified by his impressive body of paintings, prints, and sculptures.

Every Saturday, Sunday, and Wednesday, from 1 PM to 4 PM, visitors are invited, free of charge, to tour the Collection and the sculpture garden as well as other beautifully designed gardens on the property, and to enjoy one of East Hampton’s most prized aesthetic treasures.

The Leiber Collection is located at 446 Old Stone Highway, East Hampton, NY. Its web address is www.leibercollection.org, and the phone number is 631-329-3288.

DOMAIN NAME ARBITRATION, AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE, TO BE PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 1

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DOMAIN NAME ARBITRATION:

 AN ESSENTIAL NEW GUIDE TO

 OWNERSHIP OF DISPUTED DOMAIN NAMES

 FOR

 TRADEMARK OWNERS AND DOMAIN NAME REGISTRANTS

 New York, NY — An essential new book will be published on August 1, and it already has received  plaudits from the legal and business communities. It is a must for all attorneys, law school students, trademark owners and domain name registrants.  Domain Name Arbitration: A Practical Guide to Asserting and Defending Claims of Cybersquatting Under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy by Gerald M. Levine, Esq. with a Foreword by Hon. Neil A. Brown QC (Legal Corner Press, New York, 565 pages) is now available in print and e-book formats.  The e-book features internal and external hyperlinks. Domain Name Arbitration will be invaluable for attorneys and others in the domain name ownership and investing fields.

The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) was implemented by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in 1999. Between 2000 when the first domain name case was decided and 2015 there have been over 45,000 decided cases. That’s approximately 3,500 to 4,000 decisions annually. Parties never confront each other in person as they do in a court of law. The entire procedure takes place online. The UDRP is a quick, efficient and relatively inexpensive regime for determining rights to domain names. Trademark owners can challenge domain name registrants for infringement of their rights to the exclusive use of their marks on the Internet. Decisions are then posted online within 45 days of the submission of the complaint. Decisions are publicly available on databases maintained by the ICANN certified arbitration service providers. From these decisions has emerged a unique body of domain name law.

One of the several truths gained from the collective wisdom of panelists who decide UDRP cases is that parties often fail to understand the evidentiary demands they must satisfy to succeed. Domain Name Arbitration is the most comprehensive and in-depth work on the jurisprudence of domain names. It fully describes and illustrates, with case law, the procedural process and proof elements required of the parties. In addition, it thoroughly explores the law governing registration and use of domain names that are identical or confusingly similar to trademarks. The book provides an analytical description of the process and a step-by-step examination of the evidentiary elements that parties must satisfy to establish the merits of a claim or defense of infringement.

As the Honorable Neil A. Brown, Queens Counsel in Melbourne, Australia writes in the book’s Foreword, “Domain Name Arbitration puts flesh on the bones by illustrating how jurisprudence crafted by panelists makes UDRP a living and working dispute resolution regime. It is an essential reference work for everyone involved in a domain name adjudication. It should certainly be on the desk, or on the computer, of every activist in the domain name world, every practitioner and everyone else that works in the field…It promises to be the Grey’s Anatomy of domain name arbitration.”

Author Gerald M. Levine is an attorney practicing in New York City. He began his career with a major New York law firm before founding his own firm in 1992. He has a litigation and counseling practice and represents clients on a diverse range of legal and business matters from real property and commercial disputes to protection of intellectual property rights. He is on the panel of neutral arbitrators for the American Arbitration Association and a mediator for the Commercial Division of the New York Supreme Court, New York County; and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He has published numerous articles on real estate, arbitration, trademark and cybersquatting. Mr. Levine earned a Ph.D. from New York University and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School.

Domain Name Arbitration will be available from Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com and LegalCornerPress.com and other online book distributors.

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The Magic of Judith Leiber

THE MAGICAL WORLD OF THE LEIBER COLLECTION

By Jeffrey Sussman

In a Palladian edifice, on Old Stone Highway, is the acclaimed Leiber Collection, the creation of painter and gardener Gerson Leiber. He built it as a tribute to the creative genius of his wife, Judith, who created the first handbags considered works of art by numerous museum curators. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, for one, has 80 Judith Leiber handbags in its collection, and its curator, Harold Koda, wrote in the introduction to the Leibers’ biography, No Mere Bagatelles, “Her memorable works… are poised between fine jewelry and sculpture and are examples of her artistry.” Other museums around the country also have substantial Judith Leiber collections, including the Smithsonian and the Taubman Museum of Art. For East Hampton, the Leiber Collection is a cultural gift, one that draws, like a magnet, thousands of visitors every summer. It is also a destination for students and historians of fashion, for Judith Leiber was a trailblazer whose creations are as fresh and delightful and astonishing as they were when first created. She is entirely sui generis, and Gerson Leiber wants to make sure that the world never forgets her important contributions that revolutionized the world of fashion accessories. Hence, the Leiber Collection.

The Collection encompasses more than a glittering display of artful handbags. Its second gallery is devoted to the modernist paintings of Gerson Leiber. Hilton Kramer, a former art critic at The New York Times, praised Gerson for his mastery of color and composition. His large canvases are awash with brilliant colors, a synthesis of styles and inspirations: German Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Neo-Expressionism, and Post Expressionism.  In addition to the paintings on display as part of the Collection, Gerson’s work has recently been exhibited at two one-man shows in galleries in New York City.

A third smaller gallery of the Collection contains an historically significant display of antique Chinese porcelains. They date back centuries and are representative of numerous Chinese dynasties. Each porcelain in the Collection is of such fine delicacy and beauty that one marvels at how they have survived in such pristine condition.

Every Saturday, Sunday, and Wednesday, visitors are invited, free of charge, to tour the Collection and perambulate the gardens, to sit in a sylvan setting that was aesthetically designed for their pleasure.

The galleries of the Leiber Collection and the surrounding gardens are a gift to eyes that focus on beauty in manifold forms; it is not only a destination for today’s art lovers, but it will likely prove to be a destination for future generations of aesthetically  minded  individuals grateful for timeless creations.

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How to Market & Promote Your Law Practice

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HOW TO MARKET AND PROMOTE YOUR LAW PRACTICE

By Jeffrey Sussman

Every lawyer wants to attract new clients and increase revenues. They may try a variety of tactics, but the results often fall short of expectations. What to do?

To attract new clients, one must be positioned as a leading expert. No one wants to retain the services of mediocrities. One begins to be perceived as an expert by publishing bylined articles, being the subject of press releases and of direct mail solicitations, and by putting on seminars and webinars. One’s years of accomplishment, skills at achieving results, and creativity in overcoming obstacles can all be highlighted and, where possible, made the subject of valuable media stories.

Here’s a concrete example of what I did for one of my clients, a nationally well known labor relations lawyer. When he originally contacted me, he represented numerous small businesses such as auto dealers, restaurants, and nursing homes. He wanted to represent Fortune 1000 companies. I was able to get him a major story in The Wall Street Journal. We obtained reprints of that story, and I wrote a covering letter. Both pieces were mailed to presidents, CEOs, and senior HR executives at the 20,000 largest companies in the United States.  The covering letter invited the recipients to contact my client with any questions they might have. As a result, he had numerous conversations with several companies and eventually got three of those companies as clients, and each paid a substantial retainer. As new labor issues popped up, I continued to get him coverage in major media, such as national television news programs and major business and trade magazines. In addition, I regularly wrote articles that appeared under his byline on important labor relations topics. All articles and news stories were reprinted and regularly mailed to prospective clients. In addition, we put on a series on seminars in the spring and fall. I wrote ads and brochure copy for those seminars, and he attracted many new clients from those who attended. Not only did he conduct his own seminars, but I put together seminars for him that were sponsored by major trade magazines in a wide variety of industries. As a result of my efforts, he not only enlisted a large number of major corporate clients, but he also became well known as one of the foremost labor relations lawyers in the United States.

Here’s another example.  A small boutique law firm of litigators had won a couple of major legal actions. The awards were substantial, and the firm wanted to attract more clients based upon its recent successes.  We discussed their bringing a class action law suit on behalf of victims of corporate negligence. The subject was timely and provocative. After they were appointed attorneys for the class, I went to an editor at The New York Times and explained who the victims were and why the story was important. He assigned two reporters to cover it, and their story appeared on page one of The Metro Section. As a result, various interested parties contacted my client and asked that they be represented by the firm. The principals of the law firm had become leading authorities on a particular kind of negligence and so were frequently called upon by the media for commentary.

I have also represented numerous litigators for whom I have been able to generate media publicity to help them reach favorable settlements with their adversaries. No company, after all, wants to be held up to ridicule in the media, especially if the likelihood is that they will lose their case in a court of law. The court of public opinion can bring in implicit guilty verdicts that require years of good will to erase.

In today’s hot real estate market, many lawyers want to make a name for themselves and carve out a niche of specialization so that landlords, building management companies, and buyers and sellers of real property will turn to them to handle all of their legal work. One way to focus the attention of potential clients is to write series of articles for prominent real estate publications. I have written or helped write countless articles for lawyers, under their bylines, which have been published in various real estate publications. Upon publication, I obtained reprints and mailed them, with covering letters, to targets of opportunity. Many such endeavors have resulted in increased business.

Whether one uses a public relations – marketing professional, or takes advantage of one’s own creativity, one should develop a strategic PR/marketing plan that will be effective in producing results. Not to do so means that one will be an “also ran.” And if you’re not a triple-crown contender, you will run with the pack, not ahead of it.

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Jeffrey Sussman is president of Jeffrey Sussman, Inc. a marketing public relations firm in New York City. He is the author of the best-selling book, POWER PROMOTING: How To Market Your Business to the Top! His website is www.powerpublicity.com, his e-mail is marketingpro@aol.com and his telephone is 212-421-4475.

Major Modernist Artist, Gerson Leiber, Exhibits at Leonard Tourne Gallery

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MAJOR MODERNIST ARTIST,

 GERSON LEIBER,

 EXHIBITS AT LEONARD TOURNÉ GALLERY

New York, NY — Gerson Leiber, a 93-year-old modernist painter, who has been producing acclaimed works of art since 1946, is being celebrated with a one-man show of colorful abstract paintings at the Leonard Tourné Gallery.

Gerson Leiber’s reputation ranks high in artistic circles, and it is no surprise that his work has been praised by such eminent art critics, curators, and artists as Will Barnet, Hilton Kramer, Ruth Appelhof, Gail Levin, Avis Berman, Phyllis Braff, and Bernice Steinbaum, among various others.

Will Barnet wrote: “Gerson Leiber is a painter with full control over his vocabulary of means.” And Ruth Appelhof, the director of Guild Hall in East Hampton, wrote: “Gerson Leiber [is] one of a pantheon of outstanding 20^th Century artists…has explored styles, even movements, with dexterity of a gifted, extremely self-confident person always expressing his own aesthetic at the core of his work.”

In addition to being honored with numerous one-man exhibitions, Gerson Leiber has received more than a dozen awards and honors for his work which is in such prestigious collections as The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, The Boston Museum of Fine Art, The Philadelphia Museum of Fine Art, Seattle Museum of Art, and The Yale University Art Gallery as well as many other museums.

The exhibition premiers on May 6 and will be open to the public throughout May. The Leonard Tourné Gallery is located at 46 East 65 Street in Manhattan. For further information, please contact info@leonard-tourne.com

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Gerson Leiber at the Leonard Tourne Gallery

NEW YORK, NY – May 2015 –Leonard Tourné Gallery is pleased to present “The Implications Are Clear,” an exhibition of oil paintings by American modernist painter Gerson Leiber. The exhibition opens May 6 and will run through May 31. Born in Brooklyn in 1921, Leiber began his artistic career during World War II while stationed in Budapest, Hungary. He studied at the Royal Academy of Art in Budapest and, after the war, took up printmaking and painting at the Art Students League of New York. He later studied engraving with Gabor Peterdi at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. Leiber’s influences, rooted in abstract expressionism, include Picasso, Braque, Matisse and Bonnard. In the words of Ruth Appelhof, director of Guild Hall in East Hampton, Gerson Leiber is “one of a pantheon of outstanding 20th Century artists who has explored styles, even movements, with the dexterity of a gifted, extremely self-confident person always expressing his own aesthetic at the core of his work.” Art critic and curator Phyllis Braff wrote: “An artist who understands the art of his era, Leiber builds on the optical velocities and gestural immediacies of abstract expressionism.” Leiber has had dozens of solo exhibitions in the United States and Israel and his work is included in collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, National Gallery of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Art  and the Yale University Art Gallery, among many others. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the National Academy of Design’s Benjamin Altman Prize for the Figure, The Ralph Fabri Medal of Merit, the Museum of Fine Arts Purchase Award and the President’s Award. For additional information or to schedule a viewing, please contact Leonard Tourné Gallery, located at 46 East 65th Street between Madison and Park avenues, atinfo@leonard-tourne.com or by phone at (212) 219-2656.

Domain Name Arbitration: An Essential New Guide to Ownership of Disputed Domain Names

From: Jeffrey Sussman, Inc.

Marketing Public Relations

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New York, NY 10017

For:  Legal Corner Press, LLC

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DOMAIN NAME ARBITRATION:

 AN ESSENTIAL NEW GUIDE TO

 OWNERSHIP OF DISPUTED DOMAIN NAMES

 FOR

 TRADEMARK OWNERS AND DOMAIN NAME REGISTRANTS

 New York, NY — An essential new book will be published on June 1 and already it has received plaudits from the legal and business communities. It is a must for all trademark owners and domain name registrants.  Domain Name Arbitration: A Practical Guide to Asserting and Defending Claims of Cybersquatting Under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy by Gerald M. Levine, Esq. with a Foreword by Hon. Neil A. Brown QC (Legal Corner Press, New York, 565 pages) is now available in print and e-book formats.  The e-book features internal and external hyperlinks. Domain Name Arbitration will be invaluable for attorneys and others in the domain name ownership and investing fields.

The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) was implemented by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in 1999. Between 2000 when the first domain name case was decided and 2015 there have been over 45,000 decided cases. That’s approximately 3,500 to 4,000 decisions annually. Parties never confront each other in person as they do in a court of law. The entire procedure takes place online. The UDRP is a quick, efficient and relatively inexpensive regime for determining rights to domain names. Trademark owners can challenge domain name registrants for infringement of their rights to the exclusive use of their marks on the Internet. Decisions are then posted online within 45 days of the submission of the complaint. Decisions are publicly available on databases maintained by the ICANN certified arbitration service providers. From these decisions has emerged a unique body of domain name law.

One of the several truths gained from the collective wisdom of panelists who decide UDRP cases is that parties often fail to understand the evidentiary demands they must satisfy to succeed. Domain Name Arbitration is the most comprehensive and in-depth work on the jurisprudence of domain names. It fully describes and illustrates, with case law, the procedural process and proof elements required of the parties. In addition, it thoroughly explores the law governing registration and use of domain names that are identical or confusingly similar to trademarks. The book provides an analytical description of the process and a step-by-step examination of the evidentiary elements that parties must satisfy to establish the merits of a claim or defense of infringement.

As the Honorable Neil A. Brown, Queens Counsel in Melbourne, Australia writes in the book’s Foreword, “Domain Name Arbitration puts flesh on the bones by illustrating how jurisprudence crafted by panelists makes UDRP a living and working dispute resolution regime. It is an essential reference work for everyone involved in a domain name adjudication. It should certainly be on the desk, or on the computer, of every activist in the domain name world, every practitioner and everyone else that works in the field…It promises to be the Grey’s Anatomy of domain name arbitration.”

Author Gerald M. Levine is an attorney practicing in New York City. He began his career with a major New York law firm before founding his own firm in 1992. He has a litigation and counseling practice and represents clients on a diverse range of legal and business matters from real property and commercial disputes to protection of intellectual property rights. He is on the panel of neutral arbitrators for the American Arbitration Association and a mediator for the Commercial Division of the New York Supreme Court, New York County; and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He has published numerous articles on real estate, arbitration, trademark and cybersquatting. Mr. Levine earned a Ph.D. from New York University and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School.

Domain Name Arbitration is available from Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com and LegalCornerPress.com and other online book distributors.

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THE HIGHLAND FALLS SCULPTURE WALK TO EXHIBIT SCULPTURE BY STRONG-CUEVAS

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THE HIGHLAND FALLS SCULPTURE WALK

TO EXHIBIT SCULPTURE BY STRONG-CUEVAS

Highland Falls, NY —The Eisenhower Leadership Center, in association with Collaborative Concepts and Highland Falls, has selected an important work by Strong-Cuevas as part of its first annual Highland Falls Sculpture Walk to take place on May 16, 2015. It will run until November 7, 2015. Collaborative Concepts, along with the Eisenhower Leadership Center, and the Village of Highland Falls are creating a sculpture walk. This new initiative is part of a revitalization effort on the part of the Village of Highland Falls and the Eisenhower Leadership Center. The walk shows how art can benefit leadership and learning. In addition to Strong-Cuevas’ large, dramatic sculpture, there will be seventeen large sculptures by other well-known artists.  Strong-Cuevas is a critically acclaimed sculptor whose work can be seen in museums, private collections, and in  galleries in the United States, and in Europe.. Her smaller works and drawings are on exhibit at the Leonard Tournè Gallery in New York City.  Phyllis Braff wrote in The New York Times on Strong-Cuevas “One is impressed with the ambitious program of seeking a sculpture that blends architecture and perfectly keyed abstraction with the potent emotionalism resulting from human-face themes…. Creative use of negative space has been one of the artist’s favorite devices. It is particularly striking, for it adds intensity, and often a strange force as well…. Strong-Cuevas’ bronze sculptures contain a great deal of psychic energy. Isolated facial features removed from context, enclosed mysterious spaces, meticulously polished surfaces and a certain ritualistic quality all help to generate this spiritual feeling.”

And the art critic Donald Kuspit wrote: “Strong-Cuevas’s sculptures, cosmically open and epic in scale or hermetically enclosed and intimate in scale, whether constructions or cast in bronze, whether involving single or multiple heads, fuse the modernist traditions of primitivist expression and pure abstraction, confirming their originality by reconciling the opposites. They are, indeed, imaginative brainwaves of the archetypes.”

About her own work, Strong-Cuevas wrote in an essay in Art Times Journal that “Creation begins with a wish, a desire to do something, to make something, to see beyond the immediate reality. If we are lucky, it will open a door to a stream of thought that is inspiration. We inspire, we breathe in ideas.”

Curators for the Highland Falls Sculpture walk are Nicole Shea of Eisenhower Leadership Center, the Collaborative Concepts steering committee, and Robert Van Winkle of RVW Sculpture Arrangement. For more information, call 845-528-1797 or email collabconcepts@optonline.net

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Great music from Search: Paul Clayton

If you like the song, “Don’t Think Twice,” you’ll enjoy hearing Peter Oyloe, who brilliantly plays the part of legendary folk singer Paul Clayton, perform “Who Will Buy Your Ribbons When I’m Gone.” It is one of several seminal folk songs that get your hands clapping, your toes tapping, and your heart thumping in the exciting new play, “Search: Paul Clayton,” about the relationship of Bob Dylan and Paul Clayton during the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early 1960s. Go to the Facebook page for “Search: Paul Clayton” and be sure to get your tickets from Brown Paper Tickets. You’ll leave the theater, like so many others, singing your favorites songs of the 1960s.