Your New Year Day in a museum

Happy new year to all of you.
Will be fun to receive comment and the experiences of your New Year Day in a museum, if you have the occasion to do this, please post here, thanks.

Your New Year Day in a museum

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Happy new year to all of you.nWill be fun to receive comment and the experiences of your New Year Day in a museum, if you have the occasion to do this, please post here, thanks.nn …

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Bad at Sports Episode 70: James Elkins

Duncan and Terri talk to James Elkins about his books, criticism and more! Mike Benedetto provides an utterly hilarious movie review and public service announcement.

From Mr. Elkins’ web site:

James Elkins grew up in Ithaca, New York, separated from Cornell
University by a quarter-mile of woods once owned by the naturalist
Laurence Palmer.

He
stayed on in Ithaca long enough to get the BA degree (in English and
Art History), with summer hitchhiking trips to Alaska, Mexico,
Guatemala, the Caribbean, and Columbia. For the last twenty years he
has lived in Chicago; he got a graduate degree in painting, and then
switched to Art History, got another graduate degree, and went on to
the PhD in Art History, which he finished in 1989. (All from the
University of Chicago.) Since then he has been teaching at the School
of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is currently E.C. Chadbourne Chair
in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism. He also
teaches in the Department of Visual and Critical Studies, and is Head
of History of Art at the University College Cork, Ireland.

His
writing focuses on the history and theory of images in art, science,
and nature. Some of his books are exclusively on fine art (What
Painting Is, Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?). Others include scientific
and non-art images, writing systems, and archaeology (The Domain of
Images, On Pictures and the Words That Fail Them), and some are about
natural history (How to Use Your Eyes).

Current projects
include a book called Success and Failure in Twentieth-Century
Painting, another called Writing about the World’s Art, and several
edited books: a series called "The Art Seminar," one called "Theories
of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Art.," and edited books on
W.G. Sebald, representations of pain in art, and the university-wide
study of images.

He
married Margaret MacNamidhe in 1994 on Inishmore, one of the Aran
Islands, off the West coast of Ireland. Margaret is also an art
historian, with a specialty in Delacroix. His interests include
freshwater microscopy (with a Zeiss Nomarski differential interference
microscope), optics (he owns an ophthalmologistâs slit-lamp
microscope), stereo photography (with a Realist camera), playing piano,
and winter ocean diving

Aconitum yezoense

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Bad at Sports Episode 70: James Elkins

From Mr. Elkins’ web site:James Elkins grew up in Ithaca, New York, separated from Cornell
University by a quarter-mile of woods once owned by the naturalist
Laurence Palmer.
He
stayed on in Ithaca long enough to get the BA degree (in English and
Art History), with summer hitchhiking trips to Alaska, Mexico,
Guatemala, the Caribbean, and Columbia.…

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For who like motors..

My Xmas self-present was a new Ducati Monster 695
this is the occasion to invite to visit the Ducati Museum.

Rosa ×odorata 'Mutabilis'

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