A gentle madness.
Acquisitions
If you build it…
he will come; or, adventures with pollinator pockets.
Recently acquired
Stopped by Exile in Bookville while downtown this past weekend.
Art-full
My images of detail from the following works (seen at the Art Institute of Chicago):
✤ “Haunted House” by Morris Kantor (1930)
✤ “Untitled” by Jackson Pollock (about 1938-41)
✤ ”Desert Forms” by Hughie Lee-Smith (1957)
✤ “The Rock” by Peter Blume (1944-48)
✤ ”Movements” by Marsden Hartley (1913)
✤ “Portrait of Marevna” by Diego Rivera (about 1915)
✤ ”Herself” by Robert Henri (1913)
Weekend reading
The Cather bio sent me in search of a more thorough exploration her life and work; perhaps the Hermione Lee already on my shelves. My younger daughter and I are reading the Chiang together. The first two stories reminded me that I do, in fact, enjoy the form; but they must be excellent. And how apt to read Richard II this afternoon: “For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground / And tell sad stories of the death of kings….”
Art Institute of Chicago
Isabella Stewart Gardner
At the museum
Saturday at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
Packing
With that settled, I can choose a couple of outfits, toss in my slippers, and call it a carryon.
Pollinator pockets
That green expanse behind the pollinator pockets is an anomaly. Most years, by this time, the lawns are shades of orange and brown — dormant or nearly burnt. Elsewhere, people are experiencing dangerous and damaging weather, I know; but here? It has mostly been beautiful, and I’ve only needed to water twice since May.
