July 22, 2020 at 2:16 am (Books, Food and Drink, Places, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: COVID Reading, London, museum, novel, reading lists, summer
The Snakes (never mind the page, it’s somewhere near the end, that’s all self can give you).
Dan is clearly not a happy man. He even casts shade on what’s become of the old Battersea Power Station.
Battersea Power Station is, in self’s humble opinion, A GREAT RECYCLE OF INDUSTRIAL ARCHITECTURE. It’s now the Tate Modern. OK, maybe it’s a little grim. But that’s just the outside. The art inside is fabulous!
Of course it would go. Everything went. Like Battersea Power Station before it, a place like that was marked for destruction . . . He leaned against a wall and watched the people going by, and the girl cooking the curry in the wok . . . She’d been joined by a friend who had propped up a sign saying ‘vegan.’ She smiled at Dan. He didn’t like white girls with braids . . . He put his hands in his pockets and walked away, out into the noise of Rye Lane, towards the station . . . He was nearly crying when he got to the station, and he didn’t even know why.
Lighten up, Dan!
Self can’t WAIT to see how this novel ends. According to 80% of the people who left reviews on goodreads, it’s going to be terrible.
Self’s next read is an Elmore Leonard short story collection, and those stories will be as far from contemporary London as one can possibly imagine.
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
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December 1, 2019 at 3:48 pm (Artists and Writers, Sayings, Sundays, Surprises)
Tags: humor, London, museum, Twitter
next time you see a man three times your size riding a lion in the forest in the festive period do not doff your cap — call the police
— Royal Academy @royalacademy
BOOM!
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April 11, 2019 at 7:20 pm (Artists and Writers, The Economist)
Tags: art, inspiration, museum
An article on Artemisia Gentileschi is in the Books section.
Illustration: Gentileschi’s Judith Beheading Holofernes
“Gentileschi’s Self-Portrait as St. Catherine of Alexandria was acquired last year by the National Gallery in London, becoming only the 21st work by a woman in a 2,300-piece collection.”
Artemisia Gentileschi was the “first female artist to be admitted to the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence.” She was raped by Agostino Tassi, who her father had hired “to teach her perspective.” Her father “petitioned the pope for compensation. His daughter was considered damaged goods.” The case went to trial. Tassi, found guilty, “was exiled from Rome,” but continued to receive commissions from successive popes.
Gentileschi was “married off to a mediocre artist” but “nevertheless set up her own studio . . . She worked in Naples and London. She became the great artist she always wanted to be.”
“A play about Gentileschi’s travails that won awards at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year, transferred to London and will soon be staged elsewhere.”
“Roughly 60 paintings by Gentileschi survive . . . ”
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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June 20, 2018 at 4:09 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Places, Weather)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Events, exhibits, Garden, museum, Redwood City, San Francisco, Saturday, summer, weekends
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is: Horizontal Line(s). Self browsed through her photos and found these from Saturday, 16 June.
Went to the City to see the Rube Goldberg exhibit.
Lobby, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
Afterwards, self chilled in the backyard. It was a beautiful day!
Backyard, Redwood City
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March 14, 2018 at 7:06 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Filipino Writers, Links, Places, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: art, discoveries, exhibits, inspiration, museum, Paris, websites
A few weeks ago, self participated in The Daily Post’s Photo Challenge OUT OF THIS WORLD by posting pictures of the Islamic Art Collection at the Louvre, which she visited in May 2017.
Regular readers of this blog know that museums are self’s jam!
The Louvre’s Islamic Art Collection, which opened to the public in September 2012. Self visited in May 2017
The Louvre’s Islamic Art Collection is absolutely amazing.
Allan G. Smorra, whose blog self follows at Ohm Sweet Ohm left a comment. She didn’t have an answer for him (he asked who designed the space) and at the time she was too busy to look it up.
Today, freshly returned from AWP Tampa, and enjoying a few days’ rest before her next trip (to Long Beach, for a reading with other Pinay authors on Saturday, 17 March, at Philippine Expressions Bookshop in San Pedro), she decides to see if she can find out more about the Islamic Art Collection at the Louvre and found this link on the Louvre’s Official Home Page.
The space opened to the public in September 2012. The architects were Rudy Ricciotti and Mario Bellini. The videos explaining the choice are in French, so if you don’t speak French (like self), don’t get frustrated, you can see the accompanying text in English.
Browsing the page, self learns that the roof (which is the most amazing thing) “consists of a free-form lattice of steel tubes and glass” beneath “a gilded metal casing.”
Kudos, Messrs. Ricciotti and Bellini. Major kudos.
Stay tuned.
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March 13, 2018 at 7:23 pm (Artists and Writers, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: art, discoveries, exhibits, inspiration, museum, postaday, postaweek, praise, Wordpress
The baby of James Rouse, grandfather of actor Ed Norton, the Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore is dedicated to “outsider art” — people from all walks of life who feel an inner urge to create and just do, without the benefit of formal training. There’s art by diagnosed schizophrenics and insomniacs, nurses and postal workers — all kinds of people. It is a great museum.
Stan Wright’s sculpture is made out of telephone wire. It’s called First Dance. He gifted it to the Visionary Art Museum, and it is amazing.
- “It’s so hard to communicate with words, that’s why I do it with my hands . . . ” –Stan Wright
Stan Wright, First Dance (Material Used: Telephone Wire)
Stan Wright, First Dance: A Closer View
Another Close-Up: All Hail, Visionary Art Museum, Champion of ‘Outsider Art’
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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March 1, 2018 at 6:45 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: art, discoveries, exhibits, museum, Paris, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
SHARE A PICTURE THAT TAKES US ON A JOURNEY INTO THE UNKNOWN.
— Ben Huberman, The Daily Post
Three views of the Islamic Art Collection at the Louvre, which self visited for the first time on 1 June 2017:
The canvas roof of the Islamic Art Collection at the Louvre (viewed from the Galerie Donatello) looks like a desert-colored wave. Self thinks it is fabulous.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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February 28, 2018 at 3:54 pm (Artists and Writers, postaday)
Tags: art, exhibits, museum, postaday, postaweek, San Francisco, Wordpress
Last year, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art had an exhibit on Edvard Munch.
His portraits show faces erased of individual characteristics. THOSE PEOPLE ARE US.
Edvard Munch, The Dance of Life, 1925
Edvard Munch, Death Struggle, 1915
Edvard Munch, Night in Saint-Cloud, 1893
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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January 3, 2018 at 10:19 am (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Places, Traveling)
Tags: art, Cee Neuner, exhibits, London, memories, museum
So much fun to do Cee Neuner’s Fun Foto Challenges!
Self’s Letter T: The Tate Modern, in London’s former Bankside Power Station
On the last day of 2017, self was in London. She took a walk. It was okay until it started to rain. Luckily, she’d already crossed the Millenium Bridge by the time it started coming down hard. She was able to take shelter across the street from St. Paul’s Cathedral.
This was one of the pictures she took that day:
London’s Tate Modern, 31 December 2017: In a truly thrilling transformation, the former Bankside Power Station became a great world-class museum.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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December 30, 2017 at 8:56 pm (destinations, Links, Places, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: art, Cee Neuner, museum, Paris
Self’s color: SLATE
The sky, the ground, the glass pyramid: all slate colored.
This picture was taken outside the Louvre, a few days ago.
Outside the Louvre, a Few Days Before Christmas 2017
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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