Reading and Roaming
Camp: Notes on Fashion This year’s Fashion Institute exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is all about camp from the early days of dandyish gay men to its adoption by women in outlandish and outrageous gowns and shoes. There’s low camp and high camp and camp that is somewhat subtle and that that is …
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Snippets of Art MoMA will be closing in June for about 4 months for a slight re-do. We opted to take advantage of our membership and walked the 20+ blocks from our apartment. Since we like their café on level 2, we had an early lunch of paninis—an Italian one and the chicken with cheese one. With …
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GRAND GIRLS We left 85 degree plus temperatures and bright sun in Florida for the cool gray of Manhattan. We’ve had several days of cool weather with one bright warm bit of sun on Friday. After settling in and purchasing supplies, we spent the next two afternoons with our granddaughters. At their ages (3 and almost 7) …
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RECENT READING Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton I purchased this novel since I had recently visited Cuba and figured I would like the setting. Cleeton has written several contemporary romances, but this book and her newest, When We Left Cuba, take place in Havana and were inspired by stories of her own family. Adopting the popular trend …
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