The Glorifier of the American Girl: Ziegfeld and his Follies
While walking my dog yesterday, I noticed a giant, limestone head sitting outside a brownstone on East 80th Street. I was struck by just how out of place it looked. With the Metropolitan Museum of Art only a few blocks away, it seemed particularly odd that such a beautiful statue was sitting outside in the slush of day-old snow. The jagged bottom also gave me pause. It looked like it may have once been a part of a larger statue, but it seemed impossible that a proportional b
