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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…

2 years ago

Water and Light

A wander crosstown to the Met with a destination. Or rather three. The first - Water Memories - explores water’s significance…

2 years ago

Reasons To Be Cheerful

So much gloom, doom, and disaster that it's important to find counterbalances. Here are a few recent bright spots. Glasgow…

2 years ago

The View From Here: Signs of the Times and Chickens

I've been thinking about how we need to stop using the word "gender" to refer to people and why we…

2 years ago

New York City and Free Speech Not Welcome

Yesterday I took my stickybeaking self downtown to City Hall Park where Standing for Women was holding an event. You…

2 years ago

The Shadows

Gloomy drizzly start for today so time to remember some recent sunshine and shadows. Covid-19 testing tents are all up…

2 years ago

Summer in the City: Parks, Pocket Parks and Patches

Summer in the City Hot town, summer in the city Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty Been down,…

2 years ago

A Cabinet of Curiosities

Raw, cold, and damp but it's still good to get out. Thanks to the ongoing lurgy there are no social…

3 years ago

The Sun Like a Force-Ripe Orange

The sun shining ... just there in the sky like a force-ripe orange That striking image is from Samuel Selvon's…

3 years ago

The School is Dead, Long Live the School

This is actually a story about books but somehow the schools took over. It does start with the books -…

5 years ago

Decomposition

Decomposition I have a picture I took in Bombay of a beggar asleep on the pavement: grey-haired, wearing shorts and…

5 years ago

Save Your Neighborhood

Buy local. If you live in a city, town or village you probably appreciate the local amenities. These include the…

5 years ago

Posing Modernity

Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today is moving to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris but you…

6 years ago

A Few November Snowflakes

A few November snowflakes and the hits on my all-time most-read post start climbing the "Most Read This Week" list.…

6 years ago

A Catalpa Tree On West Twelfth Street

Here again - for the summer solstice - are those Wittenham Clumps. By the early 1940s Nash’s was in declining…

7 years ago