I have just returned from a cross country jaunt to western Massachusetts for a weekend of wonder with my friend Erica. We saw nature bursting from its winter hibernation at the insistence of an early heat wave, gangs of students, from the many colleges that populate the landscape, shaking off their winter blahs, dancers performing spring rites, and art everywhere. It was also a weekend of thought. Here’s why.
Categories: Art · Culture · Travel
Tagged: Art, Get Back! The River Styx, Jennifer Steinkamp artist, Mass MoCA, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams Massachusetts, Robert Taplin artist, Simon Starling artist, The Nanjing Particles, Williams College
It was the first day of the first heat wave of the season. I’d been working all morning, bent over my computer in the relative cool of my study. I was stiff from sitting so concentrated that I had hardly moved, other than my fingers, in hours. I’d had enough. I needed a break. Glancing over at the phone, I hoped that my friend Diana would call to entice me to go with her on a spur-of-the-moment trek over to Santa Cruz. There on the coast, usually, even on the hottest days, you can find respite in the cool westerly wind off Monterey Bay. I could already feel the breeze.
Categories: Food · Home Turf · People
Tagged: cell phones, heat wave, Kumamoto, oysters, Palo Alto
My dearest Yves,
Your designs changed the way women dressed for good. Until you came along, no woman would be seen walking on a city street in a trouser suit, not to mention wearing one to work. At a time when a woman would be barred from entering a swank New York City restaurant because she was wearing one, as Nan Kempner was when wearing one of yours, you, as a courtier, gave women permission to do it and we ran with it. That was 1965.
Categories: Fashion
Tagged: Betty Coutroux, Catherine Deneuve, De Young Museum, Fashion, Loulou de la Falaise, Yves Saint Laurent
