Passion for the Possible
The English Beat is making a special stop in Cleveland the night of Tues., May 14 to play a fundraiser gig for Amanda Berry, Gina de Jesus and Michelle Knight. Even if you can’t be there, you can help out! http://englishbeat.net/cleveland-courage-fund-benefit-on-may-14th/
Interior of the Pantheon, Rome, 1747
Giovanni Paolo Panini (Italian, 1691-1765)
oil on canvasThe Cleveland Museum of Art posted this painting on their facebook page today and it is one of my favorites to visit. It doesn’t come through as well here as in person, but the light and space has such an intensely distinct and nice and rich atmospheric thing going on that gives the piece a very three dimensional feel. I haven’t been to the CMA for a while (since beautiful balloon time) but really want to get back over there soon (because Art and because there is easy ENG 322 extra credit to be had). Also they’ve got some new fancy hi-tech stuff going on.
Love this painting in my hometown museum, but I also got to visit the Pantheon in Rome, and it was gorgeous. I still remember feeling spring rain coming through the oculus in the roof.
Caroline Goeser of the Cleveland Museum of Art talks about the new Gallery One, which contains some of the nation’s most advanced digital hardware and software for use in art museums.
(Source: museumplanning.tumblr.com)
1936 painting that shows changes in Union Square in Manhattan, and union protesters outside Ohrbach’s department store. Union Square has seen so much history, and it’s one of my favorite places in New York City.
Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh
the onion, now that’s something else
its innards don’t exist
nothing but pure onionhood
fills this devout onionist
oniony on the inside
onionesque it appears
it follows its own daimonion
without our human tears
our skin is just a…
(Source: libraryjournal)
“Nina Katchadourian whiles away long plane journeys by locking herself in the lavatory and pretending to be a 15th century Dutch painting. The project began spontaneously on a flight in March 2010 and is ongoing…”
