Posts by lindilou

My recent romp through a few new tech gadgets put me in mind of the French artist Fernand Leger.  The Impressionists flirted with statements about technology, but Leger was one of, perhaps the, first to directly address the human and social effects as well as the scientific understandings that accompanied it.  Along with several other French artists and painting...

Someone recently got another of his serial 15 minutes of fame organizing a Renoir protest at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.  It was a nothing event except that it has given me an excuse to revisit Pierre Renoir, many of whose works warm my heart every time I encounter them, even in pictures, posters and greeting cards. So, I am a fan of Impressionist painter...

Oh Goodie!!  A Vermeer painting I didn’t know existed until today! And being (always) a homebody and (now) a city person, I was instantly taken by this naturalistic townscape.  It is a slice of daily, domestic 17th century life in Delft so exquisitely rendered that it captures the poetic beauty of and reverence for everyday life throughout Holland. In its...

  The other day I was expecting a delivery of a fairly expensive garment I’d ordered on line.  As the day went into evening, I kept going to my front door to see if the package was there.  Finally, just before going to bed I looked one more time – and there it was on my doorstep.  At 10 p.m. – which meant that someone had to drive alone in the...

  Periodically I organize my clothes closet which is what I’m doing at home at the moment.  In the outside world, I’ve been giving tours of the current SFMOMACindy Sherman retrospective before the museum closes for its major expansion. Sherman, an American photographer, film director and winner of prestigious awards like the Hasselblad Award and...