Georg Grosz was an Expressionist German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings of Berlin life in the 1920s
There are so many awesome things to do in St. George with kids. From hikes, to museums, parks, and even discovering dinosaur tracks!
Picture this, you're strolling through the enchanting English countryside, surrounded by the most stunning natural beauty and charming, timeless colors that
(Note: information about my other writing can be found here.) La la! It's May, the lusty month of May! That darling month when ev'ryone throws self-control away! ~Camelot, the musical "So it befell in the month of May, Queen Guenever called unto her knights of the Table Round; and she gave them warning that early upon the morrow she would ride a-Maying into woods and fields beside Westminster." ~ Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur I like to think that Guinevere, a lady I admire despite her often taxing behavior (I'd have let my knights sleep in), was singing Kalenda Maya during her diversions. A medieval ballad in honor of May Day, it was a smash hit in its time; an authentic-sounding (to me at least) version of it can be found here, and the lyrics with English translation are here (along with an automatic midi file that plays when the site loads, so be warned). Which leads me to some gently cautionary verse from a more complicated century: "How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays ; And their uncessant labors see Crowned from some single herb or tree, Whose short and narrow-vergèd shade Does prudently their toils upbraid ; While all the flowers and trees do close To weave the garlands of repose." ~from The Garden, by Andrew Marvell (c. 1650) Marvell, whose last name wonderfully describes his poetry, was using botanical shorthand to indicate the honors men strive for, or once did: palm for saintly endeavors, oak for great deeds civic or martial, bays for artistic achievement. I've vainly amazed myself in pursuit of the latter all my writing life, and will continue in the quest no matter how quixotic--always remembering that I owe that adjective to Cervantes, who also wryly noted "I know well what the temptations of the devil are, and that one of the greatest is putting it into a man's head that he can write and print a book by which he will get as much fame as money, and as much money as fame" (Don Quixote, Book II). But if I had leisure to construct a garland of repose, it'd be made of irises and peonies just now, since they're growing in lush Spring profusion all around the house. Huge ruffly showy blooms they are, and would make a glorious Pre-Raphaelitish sort of crown, or fetching noggin-toppers like those sported by the brazen nymphs in the divinely preposterous Chevalier Aux Fleurs (1894). Click image for a big view. May the Muses guide and cherish their elect, CK
A Q&A with Mira Nakashima, George Nakashima's daughter. We discuss her own Keisho collection and the Nakashima studio in New Hope, Pennsylvania.
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Picture this, you're strolling through the enchanting English countryside, surrounded by the most stunning natural beauty and charming, timeless colors that
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The "Haus am Horn" is an experimental building erected and furnished as a part of the Weimar Bauhaus exhibition in the early summer of 1923 which had the intent of showing all the variety of works produced in the school. Painter Georg Muche was a teacher at the Bauhaus at the time and had...
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I was ill-prepared for how much I would love St. George, Utah. I spent three nights at Inn at Entrada with my friend Morgan on a girls’ trip and we could not have loved the Greater Zion area more! With first class theatre, art, dining, hiking, and adventures, St. George truly has something for everyone. …
The best local dishes and where to eat them. This guide has all the best food in George Town - Malaysia's cuisine capital!
