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ON THE FRONT LINE OF TESTING

CORONAVIRUS

Christopher Mason of Weill Cornell Medicine is developing a COVID test now awaiting FDA approval City Council Member Mark Levine. Photo courtesy of Council Member Mark Levine.

SHOULD THE BEACHES OPEN?

PUBLIC HEALTH

City Council health chair calls for a safe option, but other elected ofﬁcials aren’t on the same page BY JASON COHEN

As temperatures begin to rise and summer is around the corner, the question remains will NYC open its beaches amid COVID-19? While parks and playgrounds are closed, one elected official feels people should be able to relax in the sand and swim in the ocean. New York City Council Health Chair Mark Levine told the Westside Spirit that New Yorkers can’t be

BY EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM

A Weill Cornell Medicine professor is working to develop a coronavirus test that he thinks could be the most sensitive test on the market,

and one that would ultimately expand the city’s testing capacity exponentially. In addition to his duties at Weill Cornell, Christopher Mason is the co-founder of Biotia, a health tech startup that was launched out of Cornell Tech. Biotia uses DNA sequencing and artificial intelligence to rapidly and accurately identify global pathogens in order to guide patient treatment and improve patients’ health out-

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We basically get to help expand capacity for COVID testing in New York City, which is very critical for getting the country back to work.” Christopher Mason of Weill Cornell and Biotia comes. Since 2015, Mason has been using this technology to swab New York’s subway system for microbes in order to build a genetic profile of the city. As the coronavirus outbreak began, Mason started swabbing the subways in New

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ABC: NOT AS EASY AS 1-2-3 The Association to Benefit Children has moved to the front lines in the pandemic. p. 5

PANDORA’S BOX

Ben Kallos’s cat appeared in the first-ever remote meeting of the City Council. p. 6

cooked up inside all summer, so finding a way to safely keep the beaches open should be a priority. “The alternative you give is no safety valve to the city and going to the beach with no lifeguard protection,” Levine said. “With summer coming, we are going to see less support of social distancing.” He feels with coordination from the Parks Department and other government officials it can be done. Levine said the hours will likely be limited and there would need to be strict security measures that would enforce social distancing. “We should start devel-

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‘THE EMOTIONAL JOURNEY IS ALWAYS VERY SIMILAR’

Amy Klein’s sincere guide to getting pregnant provides women a roadmap to infertility and obstacles. p. 9

Christopher Mason of Weill Cornell Medicine. Photo: Patricia Kuharic

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Important information about precautions) attributed to a fake expert, “Penelope Marchetti with WHO or Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità (OMS).” Clicking on that one also allowed malware into the computer.

COVID-19 scams coming your way BY CAROL ANN RINZLER

COVID-19 doesn’t just mess with your body. It may invade your wallet as well. In the 105 days between January 1 and April 15, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Bureau of Consumer Protection’s toted up more than 18,000 reports of COVID19 scams costing Americans more than $13,000,000 for fake cures, “secret” info about the virus and heart-rending requests for donations to non-existent charities. Given the international nature of the pandemic, the problem isn’t limited to the United States. CheckPoint, a multinational IT (information technology) security firm, has

Targeting Medicare Recipients

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identified a whole universe of malicious websites with products such as “’the best and fastest test for Coronavirus detection at the fantastic price of 19,000 Russian rubles (about US$300)” that, once accessed, infect a computer. In March, Italy was flooded with emails headed coronavirus: informazioni importanti su precauzioni (Coronavirus:

As you might expect, in America the states with the most people are where the most scams show up. On the FTC website, by mid-April California clocked in first with 2,399 complaints, Florida was second with 1476, and New York, third with 1,300. By comparison, Alaska had 19, Wyoming 25 and Montana 37. Medicare recipients are an especially rich target and not just in New York. As former New Jersey State Assemblywoman Amy Handlin has written, the MetLife Mature Market Institute and the nonprofit Investor Protection

Trust estimate that one out of every five Americans over 65 is a victim caught by calls that sound like one FTC has posted to its website: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2019/03/p rotect-yourself-against-medicare-scams Along with the virus itself, the introduction of “stimulus” checks is another rich field of profit for scammers. For example, if a paper check arrives before about mid-May or you get a check when you’re expecting a direct deposit, it’s a fake. No, the IRS will not send you a gift card, money transfer or, alas, more than you deserve and the ask you to cough up the “overage.” And friendly as the tax people may be, they are definitely not going to call, text, email or send a postcard with a super secret password you can use on a super special phone number or website to

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Covid-19 scam overview: https://www.fcc.gov/covidscams Consumer scam alerts: https://www.consumer.ftc.go v/features/scam-alerts COVID-19 scam statistics: https://www.ftc.gov/system/ verify your bank account What to do if someone targets you? The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) says, ignore it. No personal information by phone, email or text. No cash payment in advance for some “COVD kit” or remedy. No clicking on links that look like they come from a friend but really don’t. And never ever hit that tempting Unsubscribe button. Doing that tells the scammer your email is address is real, which means more spam. Worse yet, it might link to a website that downloads malware onto

Sample Medicare scam call: https://www.consumer.ftc.go v/blog/2019/03/protectyourself-against-medicarescams To report a scam complaint: https://www.ftccomplaintass istant.gov/#crnt&panel1-1 your device. Once upon a time, back in the good old mid-20th century days, comedian Jack Benny, who made being a tightwad the center of his professional personality, would do a bit in which he was confronted by a thug demanding, “Your money or your life!” Benny would pause for a loooong moment of silence and then reply: “I’m thinking it over!” That’s still very good advice. Carol Ann Rinzler is the author of more than 20 books on health including Nutrition for Dummies

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 oping a plan now,” he said. He hopes the confirmed COVID numbers decrease during the next couple months, but if not there should be a viable safe option to keep the beaches open, he reiterated.

Towing the Line with Cuomo However, other pols aren’t on the same page. Council Member Helen Rosenthal believes nothing should be opened unless city’s public health officials approve it. “Safely opening the beaches depend on several variables, which are all tied to our general ability to manage the pandemic - among them are the status of treatment options for COVID-19, our ability to contact trace and isolate confirmed cases and even the availability of a vaccine,” Rosenthal said. Councilman Ben Kallos is towing the line with Governor Andrew Cuomo. “We should stand with Governor Cuomo and the governors of six other states in the northeast in a coordinated re-opening as part of a unified plan,” Kallos said. “I will continue to work responsibly towards

I would love for the beaches to be opened on schedule. It’s just not realistic.” Mayor Bill de Blasio re-opening in a way that is safe and doesn’t make things worse with overcrowding.” Earlier in the month, Mayor Bill de Blasio said beaches might be closed for the summer, although no verdict has been reached. Appearing on the Brian Lehrer Show on April 17, the mayor stressed the number one priority is defeating the coronavirus and getting the numbers down. According to the mayor, if people start gathering in large numbers in a place like the beach, then the virus will spread again and the city is back to square one. “I don’t see any time soon being able to have large numbers of people on the beaches like normal, but I have not said that that’s ruled out for the whole summer,” the mayor said. “I’ve simply said we’re not in a position to open them on schedule. I would love for the beaches to be opened on schedule. It’s just not realistic.”

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Amy Phillips Rotter huge quantities from suppliers. Adds Buchenholz, “we are, for the most part, now delivering directly to the families in their homes or at shelters and in one case, to a local fire house in the Bronx.” ABC’s mobile crisis team is hardly immobile at this crucial time. When calls come in asking for help (1-888-NYC Well), “we respond within two hours,” says Leny Bolivar, director of the unit. “About 50% of our work is still in person, though the patterns change every week. These are generally families in very small spaces, who have no access to computers or even phones, and who may have experienced some previous

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traumas or vulnerabilities.” Like so many other frontliners, ABC is counting on the generosity of the community. “There has been such an outpouring to support our essential work,” says Buchenholz. Amy Phillips Rotter, an UES resident who is a private school mom but a longtime ABC fan, says she is more committed than ever at this moment. “ABC means com-

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If this were a normal week, in a normal year, the dedicated staff of The Association To Benefit Children (known as ABC) would be teaching Early Education classes to children of lesser financial means, playing sports with the students during afterschool and weekend hours, and offering at-home visits to families in particular need. That was then. Now? In fact, ABC is still making a difference. Even though social distancing has closed its educational facilities as children are being home-schooled, ABC has moved to the front lines. “Our work has obviously become more urgent,” says George Edwards, the non-profit’s Senior Development Manager. ABC’s Fast Break Mental Health Services’ mobile unit continues to send consultants, therapists, and advocates to families at particular risk. At East Harlem’s Echo Park, it has established an emergency childcare center for first responders and emergency workers. Grab-and-go meals are being delivered to public school students. “The truth is, ABC has always been poised to respond to any new threat to children and their families, especially those who are most vulnerable,” says Gretchen Buchenholz, the dynamic woman who founded the organization in the mid ‘80s. When the virus struck, ABC was one of the first groups to ensure that public school students would not be meal-free, raiding its own pantries and ordering

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This just in - No presidential primary this June so says the NY Board of Elections, meaning that Bernie Sanders gets no NY delegates at the this summer’s Democratic Convention. “When Bernie suspended his campaign and then endorsed Biden, he said that he was staying on the ballot,“ opined Brian Mangan, a local attorney and Bernie Sanders delegate candidate. “Even Biden was okay with Bernie on the ballot.” “And were Bernie supporters going to be on board with Biden?” I queried. Fresh from feeling the burn, Brian was pragmatic. “I’ll be voting for him.” He said he was getting feedback that other supporters would be also be on board for

Biden. But it wasn’t improbable, he thought, that some will want to challenge Bernie’s removal from the NY ballot. Too early for kumbaya? Maybe not.

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You’ll run into another headache at at least one local grocery/bodega/market if you’re looking for Tylenol which appears to be the headache tablet of choice. CVS and King Pharmacy, both on Third Ave. near 90th St., keep it off the shelves and stockpile it behind the counter. CVS has at least three versions, including PM and Extra Strength. Third Avenue Garden Market sells the two-tablet packet Extra Strength. Since the onset of COVID, the price has gone from $1.25 to $1.60 in the course of a single

day. Guess they’ve figured out that headaches aren’t for sale and have joined the ranks of the greedy. And just a little while ago they were giving away hand sanitizer. Live and learn. Tempus fugit. The pandemic will be over. And back to everyday high/low pricing. Who knew - Ben Kallos has been representing the UES in the City Council for the last 8 years. He’s hardworking and always camera- ready. Still, I was surprised to see a pic of him - as I scrolled through Patch.com - nose to nose in an “Eskimo kiss” with Pandora, his nearly 20-year old cat. Pandora appeared as herself, sitting on a shelf at a firstever remote meeting of the City Council, as Kallos introduced a COVID-related bill that would prevent essential workers such as health care

HISTORY OF A FINE GUITAR

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She came to life in the workshop of C. F. Martin & Co in the year 1886. The shop was at 196 Hudson Street in lower Manhattan. Opened in 1833 it was only blocks away from the mouth of the newly constructed Holland Tunnel. Proof of her age is interesting. It was during those years that Martin thought New York was too dirty and crowded and moved his factory to the serene countryside of Nazareth, Pa., completing that move in 1898. Guitars made

between 1865 and 1898 were stamped “C.F. Martin & Co., New York” and that stamp appears several times within her body. Martin did not begin giving his instruments serial numbers until 1898 but there is a penciled inscription inside her sound box that reads “CK 1886.” It is thought that during those years Martin made upwards of two hundred instruments a year. I wonder how many are still singing their song today. Imagine: in 1886, Grover Cleveland was President of the United States. Transportation was by horse and wagon and the availability of electric-

ity was still a long way off. A loaf of bread sold for six cents and coffee was twenty-two cents a pound. And for the next sixty-five years her whereabouts remain unknown. Where was she? Did she travel the world? Who coaxed her into beautiful sound? What kind of music came forth? Only she knows what transpired during those years until 1951 when my Uncle Calmen, an accomplished violinist and viola player for the New York Philharmonic, found her in the shop of the luthier Noah Wolfe. The shop was upstairs on 48th Street in New York. Given that the

Council Member Ben Kallos with his cat Pandora, on a City Council Zoom meeting. Photo via Ben Kallos Twitter feed.

workers, delivery workers and first responders from being laid off without “just cause” during the pandemic. The bill also protects whistleblowers who disclose unsafe work environments. If Pandora, who made her debut on Earth Day, has any clout, she may want to purr up for a cat cause as Kallos heads for the Manhattan borough president election. Just saying. Gifting back to the giver - A shopper, wanting to find out how workers were being

compensated in these tough days, checked in with Bill Sloan of family-owned Morton Williams supermarkets. (And, yes, there is a Morton and there is a William. They are brothers and sons of the founder.) The shopper contacted Bill Sloan and to find out if workers were being fairly compensated for long hours under stressful conditions. She advocated for giving bonuses for working more than 40 hours a week and pointed out that, because of

block was home to many stores and shops catering to mostly professional musicians, it was at the time referred to as “Music Row.” And she was then what she is now - a Martin Model 1-26, made by a now unknown craftsman identified only as “CK” in the year 1886. Her top is of Adirondack Spruce and her “V” shaped neck of cedar. Her back and sides of Brazilian Rosewood - luxurious still and hardly looking their one hundred and thirty four years. Brazilian Rosewood, long thought to be the finest tonewood for guitars, is on the endangered list and currently remains difficult to obtain. Ivory bindings frame the woods of her front and back and her finger board of ebony remains deep and dark and

unscathed to this day. Her original bridge with a triangulation on each side, is also of ebony, and the bridge pins are the original ivory and mother of pearl. She has been with me all this time, almost seventy years since I first eked out some basic tunes not then realizing what a treasure I held in my hands. She had then and continues to have - her own unique voice: deep, resonant, pure and mellow. She has seen the decades of my life. She has seen me move from boy to man … to husband, father and grandfather. And all through the years providing me with a source of comfort as I would coax her beautiful voice into song. And as I age that comfort seems to be even more soothing, her mellow tones so welcome to

the pandemic, shoppers were spending more money than ever on groceries. Sloan responded that Morton Williams was “deeply grateful” to their associates and that their employees received higher wages and union benefits than competing stores. He expressed appreciation for the community’s increasing tips on home deliveries. Sloan also said that, during this time, workers were getting an additional “$80.00/$60.00 extra per week gift as way of our expressing appreciation.” A little checking on that $80/$60 gift found that workers were given a Morton Williams gift card for use at their supermarkets. Look, a gift’s a gift, but not one that redounds to the benefit of the giver. Most, if not all, employees can’t afford to shop at a Morton Williams. I’d guess that, even in COVID times, $60/80 in cash would buy more at a worker’s local market. C’mon, Mr. Sloan. Do the right thing. Cash, no card.

this old man’s ears. Unlike we mortals her future seems more or less secure. If treated with appropriate care, there’s no reason why she shouldn’t continue to sing her beautiful song. And to that end, when I become unable to do so, I have entrusted her ongoing care to my grandson. A young man who has shown a love and an affinity for the pleasure that music can bring into one’s life. So I will pick her up once again and relish the time as we both fall into the ease of a familiar tune. Harmon Rangell, has been married to the same good woman for 57 years. He is a father, grandfather, retired businessman, writer, part time musician, collector of Bonsai trees, and self-described “Pool Room Junkie”. His novel “Jake’s Tale” is available at Amazon.com.

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TESTING CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 York, and in cities around the world, to see if the coronavirus was present there. He thought he could use the same types of methodologies on samples from people to not only provide a diagnosis, but analyze the sample to determine the likelihood of the spread of infection and where the sickest patients are located. Mason and a team at Weill Cornell put out a study on this new testing, which is being refined and waiting approval by the Food and Drug Administration. “I’ve been very excited because we basically get to help expand capacity for COVID testing in New York City, which is very critical for getting the country back to work,” Mason said in an interview with Our Town.

Smallest Presence of COVID-19 The Biotia lab, which is run out of Brooklyn, is the first commercial lab to be certified to test for the coronavirus in the borough, according to Mason. They are offering the standard test that Mason said patients typically receive to test for a virus, and will begin using the new test upon approval from the FDA. To test a sample, Biotia takes a swab, dips it into a chemical, the chemical heated to 65 degrees, and then if it is positive, it turns red. And if it isn’t positive it turns yellow. The process takes only 30 minutes. At the moment, Mason and

Our Town|Eastsider ourtownny.com his team are working on refining the test in order to make it more sensitive so that the test can detect even the smallest presence of COVID-19 in a sample, which he said involves “playing with the chemistry.” “We know we can get down to 10 copies of the virus, but we think the technology looks good enough that we can get down to even if you have a single copy of the virus present that we can we can grab it and see it actually,” said Mason. “We’re testing all these samples with a variety of methods and seeing if we can get down to that be the most sensitive test that’s on the market, which is down to a single molecule.” Mason said Biotia and a network of partnering labs could be able to test thousands of samples per day, and soon ramp up their operation to test tens of thousands of people per week. “We have a vision of getting up to 100,000 [tests] by the time we get to June or July,” said Mason. “So if anyone anywhere wants to get tested, we want to make that possible.”

Connecting to Health Care Providers In making that possible, Mason has been working with Council Member Ben Kallos to identify ways to distribute the test throughout the city. Kallos said he’s been connecting Mason to health care service providers throughout the New York, including City Med. “They have something like 200 locations all over the city of New York as well as the

metropolitan area,” said Kallos. “So we were working with them on having a situation where City Med could be a place to go and get rapid testing while [patients] waited, and that we could take one of the exam rooms and turn it into a lab processing room where we could be testing several hundred people an hour.” Kallos said he’s been disappointed by how much time the United States lost by not having testing ready by the time the outbreak was declared a pandemic. “I think the key thing here is when the President was saying we don’t need testing, when my colleagues in this government were saying we don’t need testing, I knew that the only way we were gonna get out of this crisis is with access to testing to everyone,” said Kallos, who is running to replace the termlimited Gale Brewer as Manhattan Borough President in 2021. Notably, Kallos’ opponent in the race, fellow Council Member Mark Levine, who chairs the health committee, had been calling on New Yorkers who were not extremely ill to stay home and not get tested for the virus to avoid overwhelming the city’s health care resources. “But that being said, we have the brightest minds on the planet here in my district, and in the city, and I’m certain that between Dr. Mason and others in our city and in our country that will be able to shore up the kind of testing that you need to get back to work and back to normal as soon as possible.”

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‘THE EMOTIONAL JOURNEY IS ALWAYS VERY SIMILAR’

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Amy Klein is a journalist and essayist. Her New York Times column, “Fertility Diary,” followed her four-year journey to have a baby, with ten doctors, four miscarriages in three countries. Her new book, “The Trying Game: Get Through Fertility Treatment and Get Pregnant Without Losing Your Mind” (Penguin/Random House) is an honest and helpful guide to getting pregnant that she wished was around when she was trying. She lives in South Harlem with her husband and daughter.

Can you tell me a little bit about your infertility story, and how you knew you wanted to write a book about it?

I started infertility sometimes a little diﬀerent than other people because I got pregnant right away after my wedding, and then I lost

that pregnancy. And then I got pregnant again, and I lost it again. That’s when I went to a fertility clinic. And you know over the next three years, I had a total of four miscarriages, something like 10 doctors in three diﬀerent countries. I ﬁnally had a baby four and a half years ago, a daughter. So, I just started writing about it, and I sent in some of my essays to the New York Times, and then they called me. They said do you want to write a column about this, and I said sure.

How did you think the book or your own story would resonate with other women trying to get pregnant who are probably having complications, or think that I’m in my thirties or midthirties, am I waiting too long to try and get pregnant?

I don’t necessarily buy this myth of waiting; you do it when you’re ready. And it’s not necessarily that you’re waiting, you don’t have all this time to ﬁnd out that you can. I was deﬁnitely much later in life to the picture and so sometimes my story’s relevant. My miscarriages are relevant to a lot of women. But sometimes it’s not. I didn’t freeze my eggs, and I didn’t have endometriosis. I’m not LGBTQ. So, there are some parts where it’s not only my story, I interviewed a lot of doctors. Because sometimes my story is not relevant. I may not be having a child on my own or have had your exact diagnosis, but I know what it feels like. The emotional journey is always very similar.

I know that you got pregnant using a donor egg, and I was wondering what you think are the different options out there for someone who maybe doesn’t have the ﬁnances to do in vitro or donor eggs?

Author Amy Klein. Photo: Charlotte Crawford

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First of all, I traveled out of the country for donor eggs. Everything was a fraction of the price. I’m not wealthy; I’m a writer. I don’t have a lot of money, and we did go to Israel for IVF treatment because it was free. I’m not saying that

everyone can travel or can pick up and go, but my husband’s family lived there. My book is called “get through fertility treatment and get pregnant,“ but the first five chapters of the book doesn’t start with any fertility treatment, it’s about what you can do to try and get pregnant. It talks about things that you can check for you and your partner … things that you can check to make sure that everything’s in order because there are a lot of people that don’t find out until halfway through the process that maybe there are things that a gynecologist could’ve found: that maybe you’re not ovulating; maybe you’re not even getting your period; maybe you don’t get your period regularly; maybe you have a fibroid or blood clotting disorder. We women are so empowered in many ways but we don’t always know that much about our health. I don’t have a die-hard position on whether or not you should freeze your eggs. Everything is okay in my book, but I want us women to make the decision from a knowledgeable state. I want every woman in their early thirties to go to their gynecologist and know their hormone levels; know if they have fibroids.

Can you please talk about second infertility that you mention in your book?

Secondary fertility is where you have a kid or kids and you want more. I’m not saying which one is harder, which one is easier, but secondary infertility is also very painful for a lot of women whether they already have two kids and they want another. It’s painful because they don’t have as many kids as they want to, and they also struggle with the same feelings like I thought this was going to be easier. [They] didn’t plan on this ﬁnancially or emotionally. It can be very hard, especially if the ﬁrst time around it was easy. This interview has been edited and condensed.

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INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE BOX EXHIBITIONS

Experience MoMA’s brilliant survey of Donald Judd’s signature works online. Thank you, Internet! BY VAL CASTRONOVO

As the shelter-in-place orders continue and New York City’s museums and cultural spaces remained closed indefinitely, art in the time of COVID-19 has shifted online, with a wealth of resources to engage the eye, the mind and the spirit. The Museum of Modern Art’s many offerings include a new weekly series, Virtual Views, featuring exhibits and objects from the collection that can be experienced from the comfort of your home—say, in between the 20-second hand wash-

Donald Judd, Marfa, Texas, 1993. Photo: © Laura Wilson

I get a lot of pleasure looking at Donald Judd’s work. It makes me happy. It changes my mood. How many people can do that?” Poet and art critic John Yau ings or the daily virus briefings from the Mayor and the Governor. The data got you down? Click on links to video stories, audio playlists, magazine articles and YouTube that are uploaded each Thursday, and let art’s healing powers take over and change the conversation. In short, if you missed the opening of “Judd” in early March, MoMA has you covered. The virtual career survey of this seminal 20th century artist who defined Minimalism, but rejected the term, presents the works in tandem with a video introduction by MoMA curator Ann Temkin, a Q&A with Flavin Judd (Judd’s son), an interview with artist Roni Horn, a webinar devoted to Judd’s critical writings, audio commentary by contemporary artists and writers, and lots more. Donald Judd (1928-1994) was born in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, and moved to New York City in the 1950s. He was primarily a sculptor, though he thought of his works as “specific objects,” not sculptures per se, which were weighty and stood on pedestals. He was doing something completely different and original — something that was arguably not even art. He is known for his sharp-edged floor boxes, wall reliefs, “stacks,” “channels” and “progressions,” which he designed on paper in his studio and were fabricated off-site by skilled industrial workers, using ordinary materials like plywood,

Donald Judd. Untitled. 1991. Enameled aluminum, 59 × 24 7 1/4 × 65 (150 × 750 × 165 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Bequest of Richard S. Zeisler and gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (both by exchange) and gift of Kathy Fuld, Agnes Gund, Patricia Cisneros, Doris Fisher, Mimi Haas, Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis, and Emily Spiegel. © 2019 Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: John Wronn

stainless steel and Plexiglas. “I spent a lot of time looking around,” he once said. “I’d see a nice piece of aluminum tubing or a strip of plastic on Canal Street, and I’d buy it.”

Air and Space Artist Jamie Dearing, who began working as a studio assistant for Judd in 1967, summarized the artist’s three main concerns on the MoMA audio guide—“color, materials, and space.” For Judd, the space within, outside and between his objects was as important — actually more important — than the objects themselves. As the organizers state, “the works challenge prior assumptions regarding sculpture’s solidity and weight.” Mass was of less concern than the air and space that enveloped it. “Judd’s work is organized in terms of hollow volumes and negative spaces … The air can be completely enclosed, as for example inside a box on the floor or the wall, or can pass through the elements of a work, as in the intervals within the works known as ‘stacks’ and ‘progressions,’” Temkin, the museum’s chief curator of painting and sculpture, writes in the catalog. The artist began his career as an abstract painter and pivoted to three-dimensionality in 1962 in

order to explore “real space.” The show, which opened on the 6th floor and occupied four expansive galleries, included 70 works — paintings, drawings, prints and an abundance of Judd’s signature boxes and rightangled constructions that you could walk around, peer into and quietly take the measure of. All but two of the works are untitled, hence the descriptive terms “progressions,” “bullnoses” and so forth. His best-known form, the “stack,” is a column—not a solid column, but a column of shallow boxes, like pizza boxes, separated by airy spaces.

Objective Facts Says sculptor Charles Ray on the audio guide about the brilliantly green “Untitled” (1967), probably Judd’s most famous piece: “The presence of a column of air as well that went through the stack is as strong as the fabricated boxes. You can’t move the column off the wall, not because of the screws that obviously hold it onto the wall, but because … that column of air in that specific place is locking the sculpture.” Judd experimented with the format endlessly, producing different iterations — using different colors, materials and dimensions — throughout his 30-year career. His 3-

D works are all purposely devoid of narrative content, reference to the human body or subjective expression of any kind. He presented his pieces as objective facts. Make of it what you will. The poet and art critic John Yau finds joy in this stripped down aesthetic, especially in the sculptor’s exuberant use of color. He had a special fondness for cadmium red light. “It’s funny, he’s called Minimalist, but I think he thought expansively … when he does get into the work, there’s a kind of feeling. In a way, it’s kind of celebratory. It celebrates color just for being what it is, that color,” he says on the guide. “I think as a society, we’re always driven to be productive — meaningful in some way that we can use. And he’s saying, ‘It might be meaningful in a way that you can’t just use. Maybe you should just enjoy it. Right?’” Yau adds: “Wallace Stevens said, ‘A poem must give pleasure.’ I get a lot of pleasure looking at Donald Judd’s work. It makes me happy. It changes my mood. How many people can do that?” The world needs Judd, now more than ever. See “Virtual Views: Judd” on The Museum of Modern Art’s website: mo.ma/judd

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PLAYING THE BAD GUY ENTERTAINMENT

Myles Clohessy of “Last Ferry” on ﬁnding connections through acting Myles Clohessy is one of television’s biggest bad guys. The up-and-coming 26 yearold actor is making a name for himself in the entertainment industry by playing murderers and criminals on major TV shows such as “Quantico,“ “The Blacklist,“ “Blue Bloods” and “Bull.” In his latest film, “Last Ferry” (currently streaming on Netflix), Clohessy plays Rafael, a gay exMarine who murders his fiancé while they are at Fire Island for the weekend. Clohessy’s chilling and visceral performance jumps right off the screen. We sat down with

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I have to admit: I am a little afraid of you after watching this movie.

(Laughs) That’s what some of my friends have said. I’m like, “it’s okay, it’s okay. I won’t kill you. Trust me.”

This character you play is so different from your own personality. How did you step into the shoes of such an unlikable, evil character while playing this role?

I think with every character you kind of just have to ﬁnd your personal connections. And obviously, I haven’t murdered anyone. I think everyone has gone through traumatic events, or events that have been depressing or sad. You try to ﬁnd personal

Actors Myles Clohessy and Sheldon Best in “Last Ferry.” Photo courtesy of Mike Karp, Principal of Emblematic Pictures, producer of “Last Ferry” connections where you can connect with the character. And obviously it’s hard to connect with someone that kills their boyfriend on their honeymoon. And other than that, with that sort of character, it’s just playing oﬀ the other actors. The rest of the cast was just so good in it that it was just kind of easy to play oﬀ everyone else.

How do you play a character like Rafael without judging him?

Especially with “bad guys” or villains, you can never judge them. You always have to find justification for what they’re doing. Every bad guy or killer, in their own head, has an extreme justification that they think is right for killing someone. Or doing something bad. It’s hard though— it’s definitely hard. Because as a normal person, you’re like, “I wouldn’t kill someone.” But there are people out there who do crazy things like that. And they think it’s justified. So you kind of have to find that “in” with the character.

In “Last Ferry, you played a gay character.” How did you approach the role differently with the character’s sexuality in mind?

Myles Clohessy. Photo: Antony A. Ware

I didn’t prepare for it in any diﬀerent way than I would have a straight character. I think everything’s the same: I love my best friend Cameron, I love my boyfriend. One thing I was able to play with a little bit was throwing a little sexual energy in there with my scenes with Ramon [actor

Ramon O. Torres]. Other than that, I approached it the same way as I would any other character, really.

“Last Ferry is an LGBT ﬁlm.” What did you learn about the gay community while doing this ﬁlm?

I think what was important about the film was [how it] represented the wide array of personalities in the gay community, and representing everyone. I think sometimes in film and TV, the gay community is represented in one kind of way, as like, “the feminine man,“ or “the guy that’s a queen,“ whereas I think there’s a wide array of people in the gay community that’s not represented in film and T.V.

What is the hardest thing about being an actor?

I think any actor would say the rejection’s always the hardest part. Everyone from an A-list celebrity to people on the bottom of the totem pole says the same thing: Rejection’s always the hardest part, because it’s ninety-nine percent of your life. Imagine anyone else going into a job interview every day of their life, and they get rejected ninety-nine percent of the time. It’s like a staggering amount.

So you have to have a really thick skin, I think. It’s definitely tough. But it’s always worth it in the end, if you persevere and stick to the craft.

What makes a great performance?

That’s such a hard question.

At least for a known actor, it’s so transformative that you don’t see that known actor; you just see whatever character they’re playing. And I think in a broad sense of any actor, I think just someone that truly moves you. The performances where you make someone tear up, or you cry, or laugh, like really laugh. I think those performance are the best you can get, because you make someone else feel something else. The best performances I’ve seen, they’ve transformed me in a way while I’ve watched them. They’ve made me cry, they made me laugh, they’ve made me talk about it, think about it for days, weeks, years after. I think those are the types of performances that stick with me.

In college, you were a Division 1 soccer player. What did you learn about acting from playing soccer?

My friends all make fun of me, because there’s this thing in soccer called “diving,“ where you fake getting hurt [while playing]. I would do a lot of that, so I think I was always acting on the soccer field. I think learning to work with a team in soccer went right over to acting: learning to work with all the different personalities you’re going to find on a set. Or in theater, where people are totally bonkers, and [you have to] work with all these personalities. I think it’s the same thing with soccer: you gotta work with all these different personalities as a team to achieve the same end goal.

And then the hard work and the training aspect of it: you have to wake up every day at five thirty a.m. to go train for two hours in the weight room, and then you go to the field to train for two hours. So it’s the same thing with acting: you gotta wake up, you gotta study your lines, you gotta study your script, you gotta memorize your lines. It’s all the same hard work and perseverance that you put into the field that you put on the stage or on the set.

Your father, Robert Clohessy, is an actor. What are some of the most important lessons he has taught you about acting? He always just instilled in me to always have fun with it. Because like I said, you have to have a tough skin to be in the business, there’s a lot of rejection, there’s so much competition. His biggest tip is just have fun with it, do your work, keep your head down, do the craft, and not worry about everyone else and all the other things going on. Because you can’t control anything else — you can only control what you’re doing. This interview has been edited and condensed.

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