Reading and Roaming
The rainy gray weather of the past week kept us inside, and we focused on seeing newly released films, heavy ones with religion at the core, but also the somewhat frothy Book Club. We took the 6 line from 59th Street station down to Bleecker Street and the Angelika Film Center where we saw three …
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HUMAN BODY SCULPTED Like Life: Sculpture, Color and the Body. This exhibit at Met Breuer of people from about 1300 to the present takes up two floors of the museum. Classical sculpture of human figures was done in marble, almost always white. This exhibit explores examples of white sculpture, but also instances of tinted figures and …
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WARHOL IN THE GARDEN Continuing their annual tradition of presenting several of an artist’s works and interpreting them in the garden, Selby Gardens this year is focusing on Andy Warhol. Throughout the garden there are large white square planters filled with magenta and pink impatiens as well as a divided window display of plants …
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READING ROUND-UP JAN.-MARCH 2018 In the first quarter, I read all novels except for one memoir As it happens, the novels were all written by women with the exception of Wells’ 1909 novel. And that book is about a modern woman. To read my review of any of these titles, just key in the title …
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