Reading and Roaming
FARNSWORTH AT 75 One of our favorite places to visit while in Maine is the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland. Aside from their extension collection of works by three generations of the Wyeth Family, they have wonderful special exhibitions. We hoped we’d see the Edward Hopper/Andrew Wyeth exhibit, but it was only up for a short time, and we …
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TREES IN ART Van Gogh’s Cypresses (Metropolitan Museum of Art) The last exhibit we visited in Manhattan this month was the small, but fascinating, collection of Van Gogh’s Cypresses. Probably Van Gogh’s most famous painting is The Starry Night. When we saw it here, we were made aware of the tall dark cypress trees on the left. Something I hadn’t paid …
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I recently completed several novels: historical fiction about a rich heiress, a contemporary novel about the power of books, and lastly, an unusual first novel set in nature. This week, the Chief Penguin and I also got to the Whitney Museum of American Art for one of their featured exhibits. LIVING WITH THE ONE PERCENT …
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FINE ART FOR AUCTION Christie’s Christie’s has its New York gallery and auction headquarters in Rockefeller Center. Thanks to a tip from our son, we went down to see a wonderful Rousseau and other marvelous works. We walked into a wide lobby space, a coat check and coffee bar tucked in on the left. No one spoke to …
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