Imagine that your wealthy, eccentric great-aunt Agnes housed a collection of rare artifacts (purchased on an extended honeymoon with her first husband) in the basement of her substantial country house. She displayed them in odd-shaped curio cabinets with dim lighting and typed up the description of each on yellowed index Read More
EB Lande
Egypt: The Camel and the Sphinx
CAIRO – DAY ONE: Feb 12, 2015 Strange are the ways of the camel stranger than anyone thinks. For once, in a moment of weakness, he tried to make love to the Sphinx. Now, the Sphinx’s posterior profundum is clogged with the sands of the Nile, Which accounts for the Read More
The Clark Musuem, Williamstown, MA
Fall 2014 First the good news: The Clark is back and the collection hasn’t changed. Now the bad news: practically everything else about the new Tadeo Ando re-imagining of the space – extension, entrance, bookstore, café and grounds. The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown is a beloved fixture Read More
Yummy and pretty, too.
Japan eats.. Just a display — don’t get excited. Korean BBQ with unfiltered sake. Mochi and bean paste snack in Korakuen Garden Amuse Bouche at Kurashiki Ryokan Dessert, I think… Breakfast Vending machines with hot drinks in cans. How brilliant is that? What can’t we do this? Gift box or Read More
Pink sells…
Not sure what this is, but cuteness sells. This is a roadblock. Do not go any further. Stop now. I am not kidding. I am wearing a sweater, booties, and a raincoat. Shoot me now. Please keep me away from the owl. See below. Where is the bunny — I Read More
Shinkanshen – Black castle – New art – Old ryokan
Thursday, March 20. Rain, cold, nasty. I head off to Rappongi Hills to find the Tokyo National Art Center, a stunning glass and concrete waving wall of a museum with vast open inner spaces clustered around upside down concrete cones. (where are the galleries?) I am too busy inspecting the gift Read More
Shrines, Hari-Kari, Maple Leaf, The Shogun.
Nikko: The original, “Monkey See no Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak no Evil.” March 18: Tuesday is a lovely sunny day and I head off through Roppongi and Midtown where the cherry blossoms are just maybe starting to pop to wander through Akasaka. I figure if I can keep walking Read More