Chicago Botanic Garden
A few more
Shelved because my TBR pile is already booked.
More books
Already shelved because I already have too many with active bookmarks right now.
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.
Birthday month
I’m particularly looking forward to Daniel Mendelsohn’s translation of The Odyssey. Related article here.
A few new books
Shelved for now.
“A phrase began to beat in my ears…
… with a sort of heady excitement: ‘There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.’”
One of my favorite books has reached its centennial: “100 years later, ‘The Great Gatsby’ still speaks to the troubled dream of America.”
“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.
Nerdishly 