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Who does not love the spring deserves no lovers
I take my title from the South African poet Roy Campbell (1901–1957), who knew a thing or two about lovers…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Shadows
Gloomy drizzly start for today so time to remember some recent sunshine and shadows. Covid-19 testing tents are all up…
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,…
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…
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…
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 -…
Decomposition
Decomposition I have a picture I took in Bombay of a beggar asleep on the pavement: grey-haired, wearing shorts and…
Save Your Neighborhood
Buy local. If you live in a city, town or village you probably appreciate the local amenities. These include the…
Posing Modernity
Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today is moving to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris but you…
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.…