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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Seasonal’ Category
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 »
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 [...]
A serene day to all
Posted in 19th century poetry, Seasonal, women's poetry, tagged RJoyce Heon, Tennyson InMemoriam on December 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Camille Pissaro, Louvenciennes in Snow (1770s) Dear year-long friends and readers, From the 19th century: Tennyson’s In Memoriam: Again at Christmas did we weave The holly round the Christmas hearth; The silent snow possessed the earth, And calmly fell our Christmas-eve: The yule-clog sparkled keen with frost, No wing of wind the region swept, But [...]
Two new blogs — or old blogs moved and re-conceived
Posted in About this blog, Andrew Davies, Austen, autism, Seasonal, tagged Aspergers, Helen McNicholl, John Atkinson Grimshaw on August 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Helen McNicholl (1879-1915), In the Shade of the Tent (1914) Dear friends and readers, I’ve been meaning to tell people who come here that I’ve moved and changed my other blog and invented a third. First, I moved my Reveries under the Sign of Austen to wordpress. This is a more appropriate space, as many [...]
Capital Fringe Festival: Pandora, a continually slightly wacky Tragical-Comical Greek Romp
Posted in 20th century culture, Autobiographical, museums, Music, Plays, Seasonal, tagged Capitol Fringe, folk-like festivals, Impressionable players, Pandora on July 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Pandora (Madeline Whiting) — one of the Impressionable Players Dear friends and readers, The Capital Fringe Festival — 3 weeks of plays, concerts, events of all cultural sorts — has begun, and we went to the first of six events we’ve chosen for ourselves. It was truly delightful and I recommend even hurrying out to [...]
Two day New York interlude: windows & walks
Posted in 20th century culture, Autobiographical, Seasonal, Travel Writing, visual art, tagged Central Park, Frederick Wisemen on May 30, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Leon Cogniet (1794-1880), The Artist in His Room at the Villa Medici, Rome (1817) Dear friends and readers, The Admiral (aka Jim) and I returned this afternoon from a two day interlude in NYC of nearly non-stop delightful (really) visits and talk with friends, a birthday party, walking in Manhattan and Central Park (whenever it [...]
Spring break: Seasonal Moment
Posted in Austen, Autobiographical, Poldark, Seasonal, women's poetry, tagged Ingeborg Bachmann, Randall Jarrell on March 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Demelza goes fishing to provide food (1975-76 Poldark, Episode 11) Dear Friends and Fellow Readers, GMU’s spring break is upon us, so I’ve decided to write a blog about where I am in my life just now. Seasonal taking-stock. A while back the Admiral and I decided we would not go to the 18th century [...]
She had seated herself again … for life, as it were
Posted in Autobiographical, Seasonal, teaching on January 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Frank Currituck Benson 186201951), Currituck Marshes, North Carolina (1926) Dear friends and readers, A brief seasonal blog: tonight in Alexandria we are experiencing the kind of cold that threatens the life of anyone who has to spend the night out in it. I did finish and sent off my paper on the film adaptations of [...]
The King’s Speech: powerfully absorbing, compassionate, but doesn’t bear too much thinking about
Posted in 20th century culture, Costume drama, Movies, political novels/films, Seasonal, tagged Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Jennifer Ehle, King's Speech on December 25, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Colin Firth during press conference promoting The King’s Speech I’ll begin with The King’s Speech, directed by Tom Hooper (he also directed Daniel Deronda), screenplay David Seidler and numerous producers. The microphone is a central image repeated from the opening sequence to the close: it’s what demanded of this man with a stammer, that he [...]
Doing Christmas & Snow Reveries
Posted in Autobiographical, cats, Seasonal, tagged fiber optic penguin on December 10, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Colin, my fiber optic penguin Dear friends and readers, Some people my age have grandchildren, others have great-nieces and nephews: I have two cats and a fiber optic penguin which lights up in a glittery way when I plug him in. I gave him the name I would have given a son had I had [...]
