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Sunday, February 21, 2010

reading






After the holidays we now have subscriptions to 5 publications. Which should be great news. I love to read books, but I also love a great article. I used to alternate reading the New Yorker and a book on the train to work. But these days, though we have more to read, I have less time. Driving to work means I have lost my commute reading time, and most weekends and evenings I am trying to catch up on a little work, while also logging a few hours a week at MIT. This means I relegate a few Sunday morning hours to the written word. Now Aaron comes home each day with some little tid-bit or story to tell from Harper's or the New Yorker. And it makes me sad.

So I must make a new commitment to READ before bed, and not allow Anthony Bourdain or The Wire put me to sleep. I can do this. Perhaps.

Monday, January 19, 2009

more art musings- Saul Steinberg


Steinberg with Le Masque mural, Galerie Maeght, Paris, 1966.

Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) was renowned for the covers and drawings that appeared in the New Yorker for nearly 6 decades. his various work was displayed internationally, and was at home both on the page and in the gallery. I really love his deceptively simple concepts and visual form. 

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