by Jeffrey M Levine | Aug 28, 2012
I’ve spent a lot of time studying physicians who were also successful artists, poets, and writers. Examining their work and lives, I try to decipher how they succeeded in two challenging careers during the same lifetime. With this in mind, on a trip to Moscow to...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Aug 1, 2012
There are moments in travel when the mundane turns magical. This happens a lot in India, a country rich with ritual, mysticism and prayer where I was searching for new images of aging in the Fall of 2011. Unexpectedly at dawn I stumbled into a Hindu festival known as...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Jul 23, 2012
Last week I was caught in a summer downpour in lower Manhattan after I left the office late in the afternoon. I was wet and uncomfortable, and fatigued after attending to patients for most of the day. Like other New Yorkers trying to get home, I was rushing to the...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Jul 3, 2012
Since I started blogging about art and medicine, I’ve been going back into my files to find projects that were started years ago and forgotten. Some were never completed and others were discarded. Many were shelved, never to see the light of day. The internet has...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Jun 23, 2012
I received so many kind and encouraging comments about the post featuring my medical school sketchbooks that I went back to my flat files for more material to exhibit on-line. It seems my sketches surprised friends and colleagues because they didn’t know I did this...