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The Portal: Eugène Delacroix’s “The Women of Algiers in their Apartment” (1834)

The Portal: Eugène Delacroix’s “The Women of Algiers in their Apartment” (1834)

January 7th, 2019 | Education, Europe, General, Memory, Travel, United States, visual arts

The painting on that wall in the Tisch Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art would not let me move on. Only a couple of years ago, My Dear One and I had wandered the maze of discontinuous hallways and Escher-like stairs that constitute today’s Louvre Museum to...
Christmas Letter 2018

Christmas Letter 2018

December 5th, 2018 | Canada, Europe, Family, Friends, Genealogy, General, Holidays, Memory, Travel

We flew off to Montreal in October for some poutine, some art museum and a ride on the Grande Roue Ferris wheel, and came back to strange goings-on in the climate controls of the car. The Scion’s fan hadn’t been working well, clacking on low, squawking on high. Then...

Book # 23 in 2018: “Mad Enchantment” by Ross King

June 25th, 2018 | Architecture and Design, Europe, Gardens and Gardening, General, literature and poetry, the world and Mother Nature, Travel, visual arts

Every time I pick up a Ross King book, it’s longer and weightier. Brunelleschi’s Dome was a little bit of a thing, perfect for reading on a transcontinental flight. Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling was longer but then the Sistine Chapel ceiling is a better...
Book # 20 in 2018: “Twilight of the Belle Epoque” by Mary McAuliffe

Book # 20 in 2018: “Twilight of the Belle Epoque” by Mary McAuliffe

May 29th, 2018 | Europe, General, literature and poetry, Memory, music, Politics, Popular Culture, Time Passes, transportation, Travel

According to the introduction, Mary McAuliffe produced “Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso,Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends through the Great War” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) as a sort of conclusion to...
Hyggelig 6: A Copenhagen Miscellany

Hyggelig 6: A Copenhagen Miscellany

May 26th, 2018 | Architecture and Design, Cooking, Kitchen and Table, Europe, General, literature and poetry, Popular Culture, Travel

Note to self: if there is the chance to drop off luggage before the room has been prepared, drop off everything except for telephone, wallet, camera and guidebook. As we waved hej-hej (that’s “bye-bye”) to Lars the landlord and strolled into town, I realized that my...
Hyggelig 5: Rick Steves Writes a Crappy Guidebook

Hyggelig 5: Rick Steves Writes a Crappy Guidebook

May 19th, 2018 | Europe, General, Popular Culture, Travel

I don’t like Rick Steves’ television persona. I find him sanctimonious, arrogant and supercilious, veneered with faux naiveté and faked authority. I don’t like his insistence that the primary and dominant function of travel is “getting to know” the locals—whether or...
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