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Don't just stand there! Eat it!
So, call it a midlife crisis, but I recently got out my old guitar, its case covered with political slogans and names of punk bands, and am trying my hand at a couple songs by Georges Brassens and Nic… more →
Museum!
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Summer 2009, by Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA
wrote 4 months ago: The Serpentine Gallery delivers another fascinating structure for the British public to contemplate … more →
Don't just stand there! Eat it!
wrote 7 months ago: So, call it a midlife crisis, but I recently got out my old guitar, its case covered with political … more →
"To Shoot or Not to Shoot" or "How I Learned to Stop Judging and Love the Camera"
wrote 8 months ago: Yesterday I returned to the Musée d’Orsay. The first thing I did was to take the five floors … more →
A great day at the Musée d'Orsay!
wrote 8 months ago: Tomorrow I’m going to the Louvre, so please indulge me the cheap rhyme in the title of this po … more →
Baudelaire, portraits, and crowds
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wrote 10 months ago: I recently finished a book by Michel Butor called Histoire Extraordinaire; an essay on a dream of Ba … more →
Can't touch this!
wrote 11 months ago: A few months ago, I interviewed a person who touched this painting. That’s right. He put his f … more →
Here's looking at you
wrote 11 months ago: There’s no question about it – I’m a “people person”. How else could I … more →
The best day ever
wrote 12 months ago: Okay, I’m going to do something I’ve never done before and would like your indulgence: I … more →
Emotion, or lack thereof
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wrote 1 year ago: …”arguably the least love-struck woman in all Western painting.” – Michael F … more →
Gabrielle, part one
wrote 1 year ago: One of my favorite paintings at the Art Institute is Rêverie (portrait de Gabrielle Borreau). (This … more →
Will the real Mona Lisa please stand up!
wrote 1 year ago: First, Erin of Los Angeles talked to me about her. The very next day, Isabel from Colombia. Then, Ge … more →
Bringing the war home
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wrote 1 year ago: This morning I heard a re-broadcast of an interview with Studs Terkel, Chicago icon, deceased Friday … more →
Don't touch! Don't look?
wrote 1 year ago: Lunch set the theme of the day. While waiting to order, someone from the restaurant staff came over … more →
Ew! Look at all his wrinkles!
wrote 1 year ago: I recently heard on a French radio program a quote from the Goncourt Brother’s Journals: … more →
Gentlemanly hang...
wrote 1 year ago: There’s a great cartoon in Matt Groening’s book School is Hell called A Teachers’ … more →
What would Mr. Tiepolo say?
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wrote 1 year ago: What would Mr. Tiepolo say? This is how Robert, an art student from Dresden, responded to my last in … more →
September 11, 2008
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wrote 1 year ago: Today I interviewed Lu-Hsiang Huang who is heading back to Taiwan today. Lu-Hsiang came here with a … more →
Nice...
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wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday was my first day at the Art Institute of Chicago. My plan is to go there three or four day … more →
Psycho Buildings, Artists take on Architecture, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, U.K
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wrote 1 year ago: The Hayward’s huge spaces will be filled with artist-designed architectural environments, which will … more →
