On Saturday, we spent a beautiful morning at the Chicago Botanic Garden.
Garden
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Field trip
My older daughter and I visited the Lincoln Park Conservatory and the Lincoln Park Zoo on Friday. The conservatory has always been one of my favorite spots in the city, an under-appreciated treasure.
Seen
Milwaukee Public Museum
My daughter and I enjoyed a few adventures last weekend, including brunch in Milwaukee and a wander through the Public Museum.
A day in the city
Yesterday we visited the Art Institute for “Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds” (where I captured the images above) and the Driehaus for “Materialities.” In the evening, we saw Henry Johnson at Victory Gardens Theater.
“And I have known the eyes already, known them all —”
My photo of Desert Forms (Hughie Lee-Smith; 1957).
In March, during a visit to the Art Institute, I saw this painting in a way I think of as “again for the first time.” The plaque indicates that the artist “often situated enigmatic people in bleak landscapes,” a reflection of Lee-Smith’s experience as an African American. Earlier that month, I had reread “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (T.S. Eliot; 1915), and the painting evoked in me the same sense of depthless anxiety and loss the poem did:
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
For I have known them all already, known them all….
Playing favorites
A few more of my images of “Art in Bloom” at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Confidence
Visited the Milwaukee Art Museum for Art in Bloom.
The Torlonia Collection
Myth and Marble
My image of the Statue of Cupid and Psyche,
second half of second century, Roman Imperial Period.
Part of the Torlonia Collection, now on exhibit at the Art Institute.
Nerdishly 