@ThatEricAlper
Cow Palace Daly City, CA Still amazed my sister agreed to take me, her (at that time) 14 year old baby sister 😂 still gives me chills to think of that show though💜
@GabrielleBates
So many, esp. Zagajewski, Heaney, and Oliver. Lately it’s a tie between this one by Jane Hirshfield & Love Comes Quietly by Robert Creeley.
“a poet who happens to be an architect.”~Ada Louise Huxtable (From ‘Aldo Rossi and the Spirit of Architecture’, Diane Y.F. Ghirardo) Aldo Rossi
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Every time I study this I find something new to appreciate (this time, the tiered light fixtures on the left)~Palazzo del Bo, Gallery in the rector’s apartment. Frescoes Fulvio Pendini, furniture Gio Ponti 📸Tom Mannion
A beautiful Helen Frankenthaler seen recently
@deyoungmuseum
~ my husband and I could not get enough of that gorgeous orange/yellow-I hesitate to name it, it’s just wow 🤩
@MadameGilflurt
From recent reading (interior design), came across this photo of Ms. Dietrich ~frocking fabulous at home:)📸 Paramount Pictures/Margaret Herrick Library
Interior Palazzo del Lavoro, Pier Luigi & Antonio Nervi (photo of the mounting of Gio Ponti’s show for the Italian 1961 exhibition, Turin, Gio Ponti Archives)
Rest in peace, Brice Marden ~ The Sisters (L), 6(Course) (R), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (The Sisters a personal favorite, loved learning about him)✨
“In the great forest a little elephant is born. His name is Babar. His mother loves him very much. She rocks him to sleep with her trunk while singing softly to him.” The Story of Babar, Jean De Brunhoff
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Alexander Calder
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✨ ‘Pittsburgh’ Carnegie Museum of Art 1958 Pittsburgh Bicentennial International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture 📸Carnegie Museum of Art
From Alloys, Marin R. Sullivan, Harry Bertoia, Untitled, 1956, Southdale Center, Edina, Minnesota (L 1956, R 2016), Victor Gruen Associates (Victor Gruen
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"Friendship is the indescribable comfort of feeling safe with a person, without having to weigh what you think or measure what you say."
George Eliot
Art by Edward Hopper
“A mind that is stretched by a new idea can never go back to its old dimensions.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 🖼️Gustave Courbet, View of Ornans, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Unexpectedly found myself face to face with this, one of my all time favorite paintings by Monet~speechless. Haven’t felt that moved by a work of art in a while and it was lovely!
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