that saturday feeling

$777,920/3 br/2090 sq ft

Brooklyn, NY

When the doctor cut off my son’s cast the high scream of the saw filled the room and the boy’s lap was covered with fluff like the chaff of a new thing emerging, the down in the hen-yard. Down the seam that runs along the outside of the arm and up the seam along the inside — that line where the colour of a white boy’s arm changes like a fish from belly-white to prismatic, the saw ranged freely — the saw that does not cut flesh, the doctor told us, smiling. Then the horrible shriek ran down in a moment to nothing and he took a sharp silver wedge like a can-opener and jimmied at the cracks until with a creak the glossy white false arm cracked and there lay the kid’s sweet dirty forearm, thin as a darkened twig. He lifted it in astonishment, like a gift, It’s so light! he cried, a lot of light coming out of his eyes, he fingered it and grinned, he picked up the halves and put them together and gripped it and carried it out through the waiting room and everyone smiled the way you smile at a wedding, so deep in us the desire to be healed and joined.

$399,000/3 br

Warwick, NY

Heads up for a chance to see 80 of the magnificent drawings made by Santiago Ramón y Cajal at the dawn of neuroscience.

It’s the first major exhibition in the U.S. of Cajal’s illustration work. The 19th Century neuroscientist had, by 1891, figured out the basic functional organization of neurons. The artistry of his drawings is icing on the cake.

The exhibit started out last year at the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota and just finished a run in Vancouver, B.C. Here’s the remaining schedule:

January 9-March 31, 2018:  NYU’s Grey Art Gallery, New York City

May 2, 2018-January 1, 2019: MIT Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts

January 27-Apr 7, 2019: Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Images:

1. Pyramidal neuron of the cerebral cortex, 1904.

2. Glial cells of the cerebral cortex of a child, 1904.

3. Injured Purkinje neurons of the cerebellum, 1914.

http://www.cavinmorris.com

it’s me, i’m cathy, i’ve come home

i’m so co-o-o-o-old