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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Whistleblower: the difference class makes; Rachel Weisz heir to Helen Mirren’s Prime Suspect
Posted in 20th century culture, actresses, mozart, mystery-murder book, mystery-suspense, political novels/films, politics, rape, sexual experience, Slavery, visual art, women's art, womens' films, tagged Helen Mirren, heroine's text, Prime Suspect, Rachel Weisz, wife abuse on April 12, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Kathryn Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz) finding one of the girls fleeing in a wood I watched this film for the first time last night. It’s an important film which I hope more people saw than I fear did (I suspect it was not a mass entertainment even if it played in mainstream cinemas). It’s a kind [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In which I tell of a disappointment and how I’m overcoming it: Radcliffe replaces Trollope
Posted in 18th century, 18th century novels, 19th century novels, Ann Radcliffe, book illustration, Conferences, Film adaptations, Italian culture, novels of sensibility, Trollope, visual art, tagged Battaglia, picturesque art on December 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“‘Is it the poorhouse, yer honor?’”, Rod Walter’s illustrations: Storytelling through Pictures for Castle Richmond or? Christian Wilhelm Dietrich (1712-74), Landscape with Bridge Gentle readers, good friends, I’m afraid I have another rejection from the Victorian &/or Trollope academic scholars to tell about. My proposal for a coming NVSA conference in spring 2001, a highly [...]
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 [...]
Picasso at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, & little of exclusionary cities goes a long way
Posted in 20th century culture, museums, painting, visual art, tagged Jane Jacobs, Randall Jerrell on March 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Picasso, Massacre in Korea, 1951 Dear friends and readers, The Admiral and I tried another day trip yesterday. We went to Richmond, Virginia, to see the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and its special traveling exhibit of Picasso, and walk about to see something of the city. It was more than a little disappointing. Not [...]
Canaletto’s world on a brisk sunny day; Or, the Venetian art marketplace
Posted in 18th century, painting, Travel Writing, visual art, tagged Guardi on March 14, 2011 | 19 Comments »
Canaletto, San Christoforo, San Michele and Marano from the Fuondamenta Nuove, about 1722 Dear friends and readers, Jim, Izzy and I set forth on the first of our planned day trips on a brisk sunny day — around 10 this morning. We went into DC, walked about, visited the National Gallery, two special exhibits and [...]
