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Donald Trump Is “Making America Beautiful Again”
On February 10, 2020, I came across a small headline in The New York Times proclaiming that Donald Trump is making “America beautiful again.” It was paired with an image of the National Museum of African American History and Culture … Continue reading
Posted in politics
Tagged architecture, art, bauhaus, donald trump, fascism, freedom of expression, hitler, nazi germany
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The Worsham-Rockefeller Dressing Room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Two very different women, the socially striving Arabella Worsham and the retiring Laura Spelman Rockefeller, occupied the lavish Gilded Age dressing room that joined the period rooms in the American wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning in … Continue reading
Posted in Art review
Tagged 4 w 54th st, abby aldrich rockefeller, america's medicis, american art, arabella worsham, architecture, art, art exhibits, art museums, brownstones, collis huntington, dressing rooms, fine art, george a schastey, gilded age, interior decoration, interior design, jewelry, john d. rockefeller jr, laura spelman rockefeller, metropolitan museum, metropolitan museum of art, new york, new york city, nyc art exhibits, nyc exhibits, nyc museums, pocantico hills, Rockefeller, rockefeller family, rockefeller women, rockefellers, schastey, spelman college, w. 54th st
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Arles Revisited
Fifty years ago, when my children were eight and ten, they, my mom and I drove from Oxford, England to Rome. We had a week to cover a thousand miles via Europe’s then old, double-lane, tree-lined highways. The trip was … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, arles, art, art museums, cafe de la nuit, church of st trophime, cloisters, cloitre de le saint trophime, europe, european art, france, medieval architecture, medieval art, metropolitan museum of art, new york, new york city, provence, rhone river, road trips, roman architecture, Saint Guilhem-le-Désert, saint trophime, travel, trophimus, van gogh, vincent van gogh, yale art gallery
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Branching: Thoughts of an Ever-Curious Author 