I enjoy Diane Tucker’s exquisite art blog, "The Shy Museumgoer". She has a new article up discussing the Belgian painter, René Magritte, (1898 - 1967) and you should just go read it.https://theshymuseumgoer.com/2025/07/15/magritte-surrealist-paintings-analysis/ Tucker does fascinating, carefully researched stories, and uses lots of images to make her points. Included in her discussion are some of Magritte’s [...]
Category: national gallery of art
Saint Peter and Saint Paul
Suburban Banshee wrote a lovely column here https://suburbanbanshee.wordpress.com/?wref=bif about the reading for Sunday, June 29th, celebrating the Solemnity of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. Her discussion is both hilarious and informative. The reading from Acts 12:5-17 is about the rescue of Saint Peter from the dungeons of Herod, after Herod had executed Saint James the [...]
Feast of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist with pictures from the National Gallery of Art
Today, June 24, is the Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist. He is so important that he actually gets two feast days, the other being his death, celebrated on August 29. As a solemnity there are extra readings at Mass and we say the Gloria and recite the creed. The first reading was [...]
Ordination
Saturday I’m going to the ordination of Catholic priests for the Arlington, VA, Diocese. I happen to know that Harrisburg and Allentown up in Pennsylvania are also doing ordinations that day. Philadelphia is done. Lincoln, Nebraska is done. Washington, DC ordinations will take place on June 21. That seems very late to me. I would [...]
Eye candy from the National Gallery
I wanted an image of a particular event, and couldn't find a good one but having arrived at the National Gallery of Art in DC (pixelated version) I saw that they have an exhibition entitled, Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World. The picture illustrating the (online) brochure is lovely. Study of Butterfly and [...]
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