The Gossipers

Jun 5, 2019 | Art & Theater, Photos, Travels

We wandered into an art gallery and I noticed a few small bronze sculptures. It was obvious the artist was a woman. The women weren’t sexualized, just real and beautiful in their own way. The style of the artist Rose-Aimée Bélanger was so distinctive that I knew...

100 Tiffany Lamps

Feb 8, 2019 | Art & Theater, Photos, Travels

Assembled by hand, these beautiful lamps went out of fashion and many were destroyed. Today, the NY historical society has collected more than a hundred The intricacy of the work is something to see up close

South Beach

Jan 5, 2019 | Architecture, Art & Theater, Photos, Travels

the thing about Florida is that it looks different.  It isn’t just the sun and palm trees.  It is the colors and shapes. The art deco style of South Beach is just one example of what makes this part of the country so unique. 

Gorgeous Graffiti

Jan 4, 2019 | Art & Theater, Photos, Travels

On our last day in Florida, on our way to the airport, I found a cool part of down, with a graffiti park.  Everywhere you turned, there was amazing street art. This was part of a collection of pictures of faces of indigenous people. Loved, the vibrancy of the color...

Dancing Brooms

Mar 26, 2018 | Art & Theater, Photos, Travels

This exhibit at the Contemporary Art Museum in Chicago made me laugh.  It looks like the brooms are dancing in air.  It reminded me of the scene from Fantasia when the brooms come to life.

Kitty the Dinosaur

Mar 23, 2018 | Animals, Art & Theater, Photos, Travels

This replica of a skeleton is the size of Sue the T Rex from the Natural History Museum. But there is something odd about it. The arched back looks more like a cat than a dinosaur. That’s because it is. This enormous sculpture of a car skeleton dominates the...