Art

Women Artists of WW1: Anna Coleman Ladd

In his series of WW1 epitaphs, Rudyard Kipling comments on the all too common fate of a new soldier at…

3 years ago

Anna and Gertrude

“I am not interested in complicated things nor in the commonplace, I like to paint simple things that are a…

3 years ago

All Our Yesterdays with the #1936Club

There was a period in the early 1960s when my parents had a television (in those days you rented) and…

3 years ago

Wisdom of the Ages

Looks like having government officials who are Ignorant and Stupid is nothing new. Chinese poet Su Tung-Po nailed it centuries…

3 years ago

Show’s over folks. It’s November

November Show's over, folks. And didn't October do A bang-up job? Crisp breezes, full-throated cries Of migrating geese, low-floating coral…

4 years ago

A Little Called Gertrude Stein

There, there, said the parent to the anguished child whose ice cream fell to the gutter. There! There! said the…

4 years ago

Jeanne Mammen In Ruins and Recovery

Before the Nazis took power in 1933 Jeanne Mammen earned her living as a commercial artist, selling her work to…

4 years ago

The Watchful Eye of Jeanne Mammen

From George Orwell at the Café Royal : The coming of the Hitler regime in 1933 had a chilling effect…

4 years ago

The Games They Played

A recent visit to Montreal found us at the MAC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal Fortified with coffee and breakfast…

4 years ago

For No Good Reason

I love this poem by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. It's a commentary on the fact that - even in the darkest…

5 years ago