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Not the Shores of Gitche Gumee

Posted on December 21, 2019 by marigold

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has just mounted two gigantic paintings in the Great Hall. Part an attempt to signal diversity, part a marketing ploy and part interesting works of art, the pictures are by Kent Monkman, a Cree from … Continue reading →

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Attention Walmart Shoppers

Posted on April 21, 2019 by marigold

Fayetteville, AR, is in the northwest part of the state which is very different from the rest of Arkansas as I was told repeatedly.  My delightful host and hostess retrieved me from the airport (mysteriously known as XFN) and took … Continue reading →

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Listening from Head to Foot

Posted on June 18, 2017 by marigold

  Currently I don’t practice yoga but regardless, I’m a fan of things Om-related.  The whole Tibetan/mystical/artistic and, for some, spiritual gamut is brilliantly presented at the new Rubin Museum exhibition, The World of Sound.  (The Rubin itself is often … Continue reading →

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Roman Holiday

Posted on June 7, 2015 by marigold

Channeling my inner Audrey Hepburn, I spent five wonderful days in Rome at the start of an Italian vacation, exploring parts of the city I’d never been to before. MAXXI, the National Museum of 21st Century Arts located in the … Continue reading →

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Interesting Things

Posted on March 16, 2015 by marigold

New York is full of interesting things, some transitory, some permanent and others, well, semi-permanent. I heard of The Museum of Interesting Things courtesy of an article in the New York Times on doings about the 19th century. The Museum … Continue reading →

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Myriad Museums

Posted on March 8, 2015 by marigold

For a fairly small city, (just over 3.8 million) Oaxaca has a extraordinarily large number of museums. The Textile Museum is housed in an unimposing former colonial building; the interiors, (plural because there are several completely separate areas), are glorious … Continue reading →

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Grandma

Posted on April 21, 2012 by marigold

No, not either of mine, (neither of whom was known as Grandma—both disliked it), but Moses. Anna Mary Robertson Moses was born in 1860 in upstate New York, grew up, married, had ten children (five of whom died in infancy) … Continue reading →

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Now You See It…

Posted on November 15, 2010 by marigold

Magic captivates all ages, judging from the group at NYC’s Jewish Museum flooding in to see the exhibit: Houdini, Art and Magic. Erik Weisz, the name Houdini was born with, developed killer abs and a way with straitjackets and handcuffs. … Continue reading →

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