Another Paris Postcard: Bad News/Good News
So, let’s start with the bad news, and get that out of the way. . . Yes, against our faint hopes, our train tomorrow has been cancelled due to the SNCF work action. Luckily, we’d…
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Five Things Friday, Palm Springs to Vancouver. . . .
1. Let me lead with the lizard, if you don’t mind. Worth clicking on that photo to enlarge — the colours are mesmerising, and I’m thinking they could be the inspiration for a future Fair…
View PostPortraits of an Artist’s Play Date. . . .
Mary Knowles (coincidentally, also my sister’s name) stitched this portrait of herself working on a commission (by Queen Charlotte) of a portrait of King George III. The king’s portrait — also “needle-painted” — was commissioned…
View PostA Returning Traveler’s Miscellany. . . Art and What I Wore, There and At Home
A few more photos from that Women House exhibition I saw in Paris week before last — these top two, of smaller sculptures by Louise Bourgeois, exploring the relationship between woman and house, women and…
View PostFive Things Friday — Paris Art
Five Things Friday — Paris Art 1. At the same exposition I referred to here, Women House, at Monnaie de Paris, a brilliant, sensuous sculpture by (as if you needed me to tell you!)…
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