Good evening! I've enjoyed all the pictures lately, especially Jane's lovely park and Panni's beautiful new home.
DR Jason - Happy belated birthday!
I, too, finished reading
Writer's Block last night and found it very intriguing. It reminded me of one of those puzzles we had as kids that was a picture of one thing on a piece of paper and, when you folded it just right, it became a picture of something else. The demo CD is a delightful bonus feature.
Art-wise, I've collected images of women reading for many years. Some of them are on the website I maintain for my book group at
www.orgsites.com/oh/joyluckclub. Guess my collection started with a print of Fragonard's
Young Girl Reading, which I bought at the National Gallery. I like Mary Cassatt and Renoir and Vermeer.
Much different and more contemporary, I'm very fond of Mark Tobey's city paintings, with his signature "white writing." His
Broadway Melody, at The University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor, was the topic of a (bad) analysis I wrote for a college paper. I've just recently discovered that he and I share a birth date (60 years apart).
Favorite museums: Detroit Institute of Arts, where I spent many hours as a teenager (oh, the Diego Rivera mural!), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. DR Charles Pogue, you might be interested to know that the Cincinnati Art Museum is now FREE to all at all times, thanks to a generous gift from the Rosenthal Foundation.