Mary Cassatt: After Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Three of these were inspired by this piece, heard while driving to Michigan last week.
At the Art Institute again
We arrived in time to take advantage of member hour, entering before the rains began. My photos show “Public Park” by Ker-Xavier Roussel, “Mother and Child” by Julius Gabri Melchers, “Untitled (Fumage)” by Wolfgang Paalen, “Portrait of Joaneta Obrador” by Joan Miró, “Casaguba” by Ben Nicholson, “New York” by Hedda Sterne, and “Woman on a Forest Path” by Ben Enwonwu.
A hot ticket
At the Obama Presidential Center earlier this week.
New books
These have already been shelved because I will continue rereading Ulysses into August, and I’m also working on The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and some Wendell Berry (poetry, essays, and Remembering) for Roundtable courses.
Wildflowers
Backyard scenes.
New books
A reading friend sent me the Brooks and the Quashie; an article in The Atlantic led me to the Rosenberg biography; and because I owned only a tattered mass paperback of Frank’s diary, I picked up the definitive edition. (If you’re considering Anne Frank: The Exhibition, I would say, Go. It’s moving and important if a bit basic.) Late last week we visited the Kenosha Public Museum for fossils and the watercolor exhibition. (I cast my “people’s choice” vote for “A World of Design” by Thomas Schaller. See below.) On the way home, we stopped at a delightful independent bookstore, where I picked up The Stone Catchers.
At the Art Institute
Detail of images I took on Saturday.
Monarchs
The pollinator pockets now extend from one side of the yard to the other, and many visitors flip, flop, flee among the tangle of wildflowers, annuals, milkweed, and more. While photographing the monarch butterfly on the left, the one on the right entered the picture. Delight!
Serenity
At the Anderson Japanese Gardens.
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