Thursday, January 27, 2011

Van Gogh's Paintings: Step a Little Closer

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When my son Mack was three months old, our family had the opportunity to travel to Europe with a school tour. While I was taking a group of ...
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

You see a Bicycle. I see Art.

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Kyle asked me to visit Duchamp’s Study for Chess Player in the Guggenheim. But much to my frustration, this painting was displayed in a clo...
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Cinderella, Cinderella

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Brian asked me to visit the Cinderella Table in the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA, to those on the in with the museum world). This table was ...
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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Looking through the Kaleidoscope: Fernand Léger and Cubism

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Adam asked me to view Fernand Léger’s painting The Smokers , which is on display at the Guggenheim. Sadly, the Guggenheim is in the process...
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What is Normal? A Musical Journey into Insanity

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Friday night I sat in a room with 760 strangers and cried. We had just seen the Broadway play Next to Normal . Making a musical about a woma...
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

When in Rome . . .

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Chris asked me to visit the Roman Mosaic (ca 300 A.D.), found in Lod Israel in 1996, and brought to the Metropolitan Museum in 2010. It was ...
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A Thousand Pieces of Lights

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Awe. Stillness. Peace. These were my first emotions to the leaded glass window Autumn Landscape--The River of Life. Olivia drew my attentio...
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