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A blog on postcards by Gayle Brennan Spencer
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Above: Museum-goer interacting with Pablo Picasso’s “Head of a Woman” made from sheet metal Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.” Pablo Picasso And Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) loved a ..read more
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Above: Definitive proof that a family of giants, so advanced they had cellphones, built Stonehenge. According to folklore, Stonehenge was created by Merlin, the wizard of Arthurian legend, who magically transported the massive stones from Ireland, where giants had assembled them. Another legend says invading Danes put the stones up, and another theory says they ..read more
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1M ago
Adam and Eve, 10th-century mosaic in the Palatine Chapel inside the Norman Palace The Palatine Chapel is the most beautiful in the world, the most surprising religious jewel ever evolved up by the human mind and executed by the hand of an artist…. where the harshness of the Gothic style brought here by the Normans ..read more
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Above: “Restoration,” mural by Kathy and Lionel Sosa Once upon a time, I logged a lot of hours at City Hall, sometimes parking on a surface lot behind it. Behind it meaning on the other side of an unrecognizable creek. An ugly footbridge, hemmed in by chained-link fencing, crossed a narrow trash-filled concrete-walled ditch ..read more
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1M ago
Above: Part of a community art project of Color a Mexico Sharing snatches of artwork brightening up walls and doorways we encountered while meandering the streets of Morelia. Some of these murals resulted from Morelia’s Festival Internacional del Arte Urbano in 2022. These photos were taken prior to the fall 2023 event, so presumably there ..read more
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1M ago
Above: Interior of The Design Museum A basement space in the Victoria & Albert Museum was the first home to Boilerhouse, a showcase for modern design that outgrew that space and another subsequent one before transforming the 1960s Commonwealth Institute into today’s The Design Museum on Kensington High Street. The most striking feature of the ..read more
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2M ago
Above: Detail from “Curriculum Vitae XI,” Tom Phillips The muses visit children in disguise with shrouded gifts ~ Terpsichore give her a skipping rope ~ From Clio he receives old stamps of far forgotten colonies ~ Darkly to me Apollo and his team present the pnuema ~ the creative spark ~ all strife of art ..read more
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2M ago
Above: Souvenir display in a shop window Mass-manufactured souvenirs might be tacky, but they often serve as indicators of what distinctive symbols a community values. Assigned positions of prominence here are replicas of the pair of treasured bejeweled crosses from the Cathedral, the ancient ones recovered and repaired following a brazen 1977 theft. And the ..read more
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2M ago
Above: Chiles capones filled with salsa de guacamole at La Guarecita de San Agustin The first time we peeked into La Guarecita de San Agustin, I rejected it. Having lived in San Antonio for about four decades, the restaurant’s interior decor, waitress uniforms and even logo reminded me too much of some old-school, Tex-Mex restaurants ..read more
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3M ago
Above: Scene from The Godfather III shot on the steps of Teatro Massimo Even if you have never seen The Godfather III, a spoiler alert scarcely seems necessary when revealing lots of bodies fall during the last few scenes of the film. You’d expect no less in any of Francis Ford Coppola’s trilogy of films ..read more