Tag: art

  • Eight in Some: Sunday, February 18

    Eight in Some: Sunday, February 18

    A prompt for today’s post: Recently, the chief curator at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City rejected the White House’s request to loan Vincent van Gogh’s Landscape With Snow painting, instead offering to lend Maurizio Cattelan’s functional, solid gold toilet sculpture titled America. If you could borrow any work of art from a museum […]

  • Twelve Moments of Summer with My Twelve-Year-Old: DAY TWELVE

    Twelve Moments of Summer with My Twelve-Year-Old: DAY TWELVE

    On the twelfth day of Summer(mas), my middle schooler gave to me: twelve plushies thrumming —————— We can trace it through the generations: the impulse towards creative expression. Paco’s paternal grandmother is an artist, a painter.   Paco’s paternal grandfather is an architect, a photographer.   Paco’s maternal grandmother is a hand quilter, a stitcher.   […]