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The Art Bombing World of the Cat
It's been a bit quiet on the R and R front this Fall but I've not been entirely idle. I…
Art and the Garden
If you are in New York City and looking for a outing here's a suggestion: Wave Hill Garden in the…
Literal Nazis and the Retro-transing of History
Researching Marienbad and the Savoy led me to Erika Mann and all the gossip, scandal, politics, and drama of her…
Water and Light Part Two: C19th Danish Art
The third destination of our Met Museum art extravaganza was Beyond the Light - Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish…
Water and Light
A wander crosstown to the Met with a destination. Or rather three. The first - Water Memories - explores water’s significance…
Four Little Girls
Carole Robertson (14), Carol Denise McNair (11), Addie Mae Collins (14), and Cynthia Wesley (14) died on September 15, 1963,…
Back-to-School: First Grade
First Grade by Ron Kortgee Until then, every forest had wolves in it, we thought it would be fun to…
Anna and Gertrude
“I am not interested in complicated things nor in the commonplace, I like to paint simple things that are a…
A Little Called Gertrude Stein
There, there, said the parent to the anguished child whose ice cream fell to the gutter. There! There! said the…
The Watchful Eye of Jeanne Mammen
From George Orwell at the Café Royal : The coming of the Hitler regime in 1933 had a chilling effect…
Clearing the Clutter
These days find me busy clearing and chucking, sorting and sifting, storing and saving. Three truck loads of stuff cleared…
The Games They Played
A recent visit to Montreal found us at the MAC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal Fortified with coffee and breakfast…
For No Good Reason
I love this poem by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. It's a commentary on the fact that - even in the darkest…
The Art Game
Friends in the UK who usually come to visit in August were prevented by an illness this year. Big disappointment,…