Monthly archives of “February 2015

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Violet crown

My Texas ramble continues in Austin with a reason to return: earlier this month, the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas Austin announced the imminent alightment of Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin on university grounds. For the 91-year-old artist, Austin marks many firsts: It… Read More

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Happy birthday

                  To me. Yesterday, I celebrated my birthday in a wonderland with a wonderful friend. A West Texas mirage made real in the details: the art film, immaculate and tragic; the flawless bookstore with tabletop stacks; the… Read More

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Big love

                  A different lens on love: too big to be contained, frothing from notions of domesticity and security. Delicate white balloons spill from a suburban home somewhere/anywhere, a scene staged by French photographer Charles Pétillon as part… Read More

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Tunnel vision

On this Valentine’s Day, as the luxury of peace finds many places saturated with pink, it seems timely to spotlight a perspective on love amid conflict: love as optimism; love as a construct growing from rubble; love as green and lush as this lace top.… Read More