Continue Reading Adagietto Today’s bits of beauty are brought to you by Mahler, Visconti, Thomas Mann,Venice and a young Swedish actor who was hailed at…
Continue Reading Spiegel im Spiegel For Wednesday I set out to find a good match of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s music with visual images that moved me….
Continue Reading Lacrimosa Tuesday’s beauty goes far, all the way back to the bing bang, in fact. I picked the creation of the universe -…
Continue Reading L’ho Perduta Time for beauty. Visual beauty, musical beauty, literary beauty, natural beauty. It must be possible to escape this worrisome world for a…
Continue Reading Discrepancies To close out this week of (mostly) musings on forms of conflict, I will offer a juxtaposition: how beautiful spring can look…
Continue Reading The Hope of Loving In 2016 I was commissioned by the North Coast Chorale to create piece-specific art to be projected in the concert hall during…
Continue Reading Confutation A confutation is the act of refuting someone’s point forcefully – so I learned when I looked the word up; it had…
Continue Reading Inconsistencies I plead guilty. I am utterly inconsistent when it comes to doing the right thing: reducing my carbon foot print. I was thinking…
Continue Reading Contradictions Ever read anything by Richard Powers? Even know the name? For someone like me whose research domaine is memory, who is deeply…
Continue Reading Reversals I’ll close this week on art tidbits with two items that might interest you. One is an exhibit in NYC (friends there: you…
