I went to an old-fashioned Power Show last week. I spent four days in the car and four days not in the car with seven other people. We stayed in an apartment above a diner on Main Street, in a town of about 5,000 people. The apartment was very long and narrow, with skylights to [...]
I have an old post that says, February! How did that happen? So I didn’t call this post, August! How did that happen? But it’s how I feel. The Shy Museum Goer has a new post about a Mexican artist, a woman who is not Frida Kahlo. Maria Izquierdo has a fascinating story of struggle, [...]
When I was maybe five years old my family used to go to the National Gallery of Art on Sundays. ~Occasional Sundays.~ I probably don't really remember how often... When I look back I realize that the museum was very new at the time. The building was opened in 1941. I wonder how much traffic [...]
In 1926, on July 5th, President Calvin Coolidge gave a speech discussing the roots of the Declaration of Independence in the preaching and teaching within the American colonise, as well as the philosophical underpinnings. He talked about what American exceptionalism meant. You can find the whole discourse here. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-the-celebration-the-150th-anniversary-the-declaration-independence-philadelphia To me the money paragraph is [...]
A friend sent me a YouTube video for an art exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, devoted to the artist Raphael. It is one of the largest exhibitions of his work ever put on. It is exquisite. Watch the video. https://youtu.be/y5vnCnB4JcE?si=M3snocb7Aeo2wJY5 Lots of paintings are on view but also, lots of drawings and [...]
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