Tag Archives: art

Pretty as a Picture: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Posted on October 29, 2022 by polloplayer

Two days was not enough time to do even Boston proper properly. But we did check one highlight off my list, the Venetian-inspired villa that wealthy collector Isabella Stewart Gardner built as her home in 1899-1901 and left to posterity … Continue reading →

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Picture books.

Posted on June 29, 2019 by polloplayer

Reading is something I used to do.  That is, before life was recently upended in May and June. Five books a month is my usual standard, but I’ll be lucky if I finish one this month. No time to read … Continue reading →

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Oldsters In Seattle: The Artful Codgers

Posted on September 6, 2018 by polloplayer

Hey, if we were young we would be out in kayaks or hiking Mt. Rainier. But we’re old and, um, truth be told, a little decrepit. But – we’re not dead. (yet). So we wanted to have some fun in … Continue reading →

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5 things about da Vinci.

Posted on November 18, 2017 by polloplayer

Leonardo’s in the news. And, as it happens, on my bookshelf. I just finished trudging through Walter Isaacson’s new (Simon & Schuster, October, 2017) biography Leonardo da Vinci and thus am completely qualified to offer my expert opinion on last … Continue reading →

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NYBG Day Trip: Glass Menagerie

Posted on September 23, 2017 by polloplayer

If you haven’t yet made the trek up to the New York Botanical Garden to see the glorious Chihuly installation, it’s not too late: the exhibit continues through October 29. And it is so worth the trip! We began our … Continue reading →

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Get to the Met: The Pergamon Exhibit

Posted on July 2, 2016 by polloplayer

What the Hellenistic?! This is special! Breathtaking, really. Entitled Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World, the current exhibit in the Tisch Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art showcases exquisite finds from the ancient Greek city of Pergamon, now the … Continue reading →

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Firenze

Posted on December 26, 2015 by polloplayer

Four nights in Florence and we barely scratched the surface of the surface. We trudged repeatedly back and forth across the Ponte Vecchio and through the Piazza della Signoria and, like Mark Twain in The Innocents Abroad, “wandered through the … Continue reading →

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The Delights of The Galleria Borghese

Posted on October 3, 2015 by polloplayer

What I know about art could fit on the head of a teeny tiny pin. If you had mentioned Bernini to me before last week I might have thought you were offering me a cocktail. Okay, maybe I’d heard of … Continue reading →

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I Finally Got My Rooster, Sort Of…

Posted on December 27, 2014 by polloplayer

The CE and I are collectors. Me, of furry four-footers and feathered and winged creatures. He, of books and esoteria. Since neither of us seems able to curb the other’s passions, our home has long been overrun with dogs, cats, … Continue reading →

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NYC memory: David McCullough at the Met

Posted on March 17, 2012 by polloplayer

We’re back in California, where I’ve spent the last few days sifting through memories of this latest sojourn to NYC. While each trip is a bit different, we’re settling, inch by inch, into patterns that define “living” there from being … Continue reading →

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