Reading and Roaming
STUNNING ART EXHIBIT—People Come First I feel as if I should have heard about the American artist Alice Neel long before this. She lived from 1900 to 1984 and was active on the political scene in Manhattan. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a retrospective of her work on display until August 1, and it’s stunning. Her paintings are largely …
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Happy Egg Day! Happy Easter! Couldn’t resist including this basket of dyed eggs as the header photo, courtesy of pennlive.com OSCAR NOMINEES, A WANNABE, AND A CLASSIC LOVE UNDER STRESS Supernova (Amazon Prime $) I feel like I’ve been living with Stanley Tucci the past two weeks, what with watching his entire Searching for Italy series and now …
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HAPPY SPRING! For me, the appearance of daffodils, even in the supermarket, heralds the arrival of spring. Today, March 20, is the first day of spring, the spring equinox. This equinox can occur on March 19, 20, or 21. Interestingly, according to the Farmer’s Almanac, the next time spring arrives on March 21 in the United States …
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RECENT FILMS POISON GLOW Radium Girls (Netflix) Based on history, this is the heart-tugging story of several young women who work in a New Jersey factory painting luminous numbers on clock faces. It’s 1925, and the “girls” are told the brush point is finer if they dip the brush in the paint, lick it, and then paint. Paid …
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