As Marilyn Monroe A masquerade ball: life for women as gothic Dear friends and readers, There is a wonderful exhibit, a full retrospective of Cindy Sherman’s career as a photographer on right now at the Museum of Modern Art. It takes you through all the phases of her career, from the 1950s/60s imitations, to the [...]
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Siegfried: the HD version with Jay Hunter Morris as eager boy who knows no fear
Posted in 20th century culture, Film adaptations, Met HDOperas, modern art, Movies, Music, Musical, opera, political novels/films, politics, Theater, tagged Bryn Terfel, Deborah Voigt, HD opera, Jay Hunter, Siegfried, the Met, Wagner on May 17, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Jay Hunter Morris as Siegfried against the paper-mache dragon Dear friends and readers, We saw the re-play last night. We enjoyed it: I only feel asleep briefly during one of the interminable conversations setting forth what happened before the opera opened (why then have two previous? because, Jim told me, this was written before the [...]
Museum of Modern Art: another way to house ourselves & get to one another
Posted in 20th century culture, Autobiographical, modern art, museums, politics, Travel Writing, tagged 21st century lifestyle, cars, travel, vacation on April 3, 2012 | 5 Comments »
March daffodils to the side of my house (close up) Dear friends and readers, Yesterday I had to expend a goodly sum to a group of workers (acting with alacrity to obey their boss), the man who owns Residential Lawn Management, to cut my grass, ground down the hedge in front of my house, hand-cut [...]
A summer’s day in March: at the Women’s Museum
Posted in modern art, museums, opera, painting, Seasonal, visual art, women's art, tagged arts, NationalMuseumofWomeninArts, vacation, West End cinema on March 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Gabriele Munter, Breakfast of the Birds (1934). For more images (her work continues the tradition described by Deborah Cherry) Dear friends and readers, Soon winter will become a mythic time and pictures of snow and frost will have to be explained: today our temperatures in the DC area reached 80 fahrenheit and we are in [...]
Lorca’s Blood Wedding at Source Theater
Posted in 20th century culture, modern art, mystery-suspense, political novels/films, politics, tagged blood wedding, Federico Garcia Lorca, mark halperin, red rose, reinsel, theatrical experience on February 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Mother (Deidre LaWan Starnes) Dear friends and readers, Jim and I saw a well done moving production of Federico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding tonight at the Source Theater and I write to urge all those within driving distance of DC to come and see it. As translated by Tanya Ronder and directed by Shirley Serotsky, [...]
Boxing Day at the National Gallery : Wiseman & Warhol & Callahan
Posted in modern art, Movies, museums, Seasonal, visual art, tagged Andy Warhol, Frederick Wiseman, The Store on December 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Neiman Marcus, 2nd floor by escalators at Xmas time Dear Friends and readers, This year we had two minor disappointments. I really thought we’d get to see the new Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. As in the last few years, surely a star studded movie based on a super-famous good book was made to get academy [...]
