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derspatchel and I have been married for a year and three months, but we've been a couple for three years today. We went to the MFA to celebrate. The highlights were
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, a selection of mid-twentieth-century transportation models, blueprints, posters, and the occasional curiosity (a trophy from the second annual Goodyear Zeppelin Race in 1930!) and
Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott, a groundbreaking, never-published photo-essay of Midwestern black lives in 1950, originally intended as a cover story for
Life magazine; we also found Gustav Klimt's unfinished
Adam and Eve (1917/18)—the first of his paintings to be exhibited by the MFA—and
restored treasures of the Rothschild family, looted by the Nazis and slowly recovered over the years. Random art objects as we wandered—Jean-Léon Gérôme's
Black Panther Stalking a Herd of Deer (1851) may be a fantasy, but we see that expectant crouch around this house a lot. We were similarly delayed leaving the gift shop by Jeffrey Brown's
Cat Getting Out of a Bag and Other Observations (2007), which is the only time in my life I have picked up a book of cat cartoons and spent nearly every page recognizing my cats' behavior. (Our cats don't drool and they have never been outside. Everything else, right down to the affectionate gnawing, was spot-on.) We walked up to Mass. Ave. to catch the 1 bus back to Harvard Square and now Rob is performing and I am about to start work again; we have plans to meet up after his show. There is a cat asleep next to my radiator. These things are important.
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Thank you! Excellent icon.
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And that cat book looks adorable.
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Thank you! It was a really, really good one.
And that cat book looks adorable.
Ridiculously so. We were impressed.
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Thank you!
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Thank you. I think it would be nice.
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I wonder if Jean-Léon Gérôme used a black housecat as his model, come to that. (Not suggesting this to denigrate the painting, which is excellent, but just wondering how often one gets to observe a panther)
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The whole book is like that. It's great.
(We didn't buy it, because of finances, but we read it in the gift shop and the staff were very patient, even though they must have been fifteen minutes from closing.)
I wonder if Jean-Léon Gérôme used a black housecat as his model, come to that. (Not suggesting this to denigrate the painting, which is excellent, but just wondering how often one gets to observe a panther)
I really hope so!
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On the subject of recovered art, do you know about The Precious Legacy? My mother and I watched the documentary when I was eight before I went on a class trip to Toronto to see the exhibit.
This was actually how I found out about the Holocaust. My poor mother is showing me this TV program, and it is dawning on me slowly that all the people who owned all these things are dead. I mean, unnaturally dead. Somehow my mother thought that I must have picked up the holocaust lore from cultural osmosis, but I hadn't, so I sat in my green bean bag chair, horrified and terrorized, and kept saying "but why?" for at least an hour after the program was over.
On the other hand, I really enjoyed the exhibit, and, unsurprisingly I have remained horrified and fascinated by the Holocaust, even going through three solid years in high school of reading nothing but Holocaust literature (which prompted my Holocaust studies professor to make me teach his class one day because of my depth of knowledge on a specific topic. Talk about unexpected situations.)
I hope your next three years are exponentially more wonderful than the first three.
Happy three years!
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Thank you!