–Basilica di San Lorenzo facade –outside the Basilica di San Lorenzo I recently attended another free art lecture by Dr. Dianne Goode at SMU. For this lecture, Dr. Goode focused on Firenze, or Florence to most English speakers. Dr. Goode spoke about the painting, sculpture, and architecture of this great city. She focused on the…
–a Hemingway is writing for Collier’s Magazine. “Before leaving Montreal for Madrid a friend gave me a heads-up. He had traveled to both Russia and Spain this year and told me that the Spanish police were much worse than their Russian counterparts. He said that . . .” Check it out if…
A Ticket to the Circus: A Memoir by Norris Church Mailer ISBN 978-0-8129-7987-9 Random House Trade Paperback Edition New York 2011 I have not been in a reading mood lately but needed to fulfill my 52-52-52 Challenge obligation, so I went to the bookstore to kill some time the other day and was trying to…
–Vasari’s Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (the multi-volume sets in Italian and English) I love arts libraries (and libraries in general)!
Southern Methodist University (SMU) has decided to stop operations of the SMU Press, established in 1937. The Dallas Morning News has the full story HERE. Not that I don’t like football, but I notice the SMU Mustangs football program is doing better these days . . . Hmmmm? One of the SMU Press books published:…
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