slithering!

such fun, writing about art shows: so I went BACK to the Morgan to see the Drawing Surrealism AGAIN, and it yielded this:

http://hyperallergic.com/65991/slithering-toward-us-drawing-surrealism-at-the-morgan/

and I love Hyperallergic weekend, and especially SLITHERING

coming, a thought about the Proust show also at the Morgan, for the same website, hyperallergic weekend, but also I should point out that, under the editorship of the very very intelligent Harold Augenbraum, who knows LOTS about Proust, from way back, his (yes, Marcel's) poems have been translated by lots of us translator poet types, out with Penguin this very month, we could slither along into them soon....

and adam phillips

so there is Adam Phillips, who is such a delight to read, in the New Yorker and also in that just now out issue of Raritan where I get to follow in his printsteps, and of course the URL is not yet the present issue, but forthcoming, that's all right, it took two years to get there, or here:

http://raritanquarterly.rutgers.edu/forthcoming-raritan

And now I can get back to writing about the south, although the north was fun to do

Parsifal, new production, Raritan, "Thinking North"

Oh dear, oh my goodness, I've seen many Parsifals, here in New York and in Vienna, for starters,
but this production is filled with collectivity of a most disturbing kind. The Knights, all in their white shirts and black trousers (I used to like the monk habits, old school me, I guess), raise their arms -- as Robert Paxton remarked in the intermission, next thing might be the Nazi salute -- and the Klansmen came to my Southern mind.
 On which topic, that I dwell on a bit, writing about my very Southern, but very liberal Grandmother the painter Margaret Walthour Lippitt (about whom more anon, somewhere or other), just out is my piece on Glenn Gould and Jon Schueler (and Randall Jarrell also), called "Thinking North," in Raritan Quarterly Review, Winteer 2013, vol. XXXII, number 3, and if it had a url, I'd direct someone to it, as Matthew my son told me how to do yesterday...
 For instance, since I love writing up art shows for Hyperallergicweekend, he showed me how to put in a url for that particular piece I wrote (like the ones on Robert Vonnoh and on Sarah Plimpton, for example) and out next weekend, more.
How nice things refer to things, albeit this feels a bit self-referential, not a Southern thing.  

hyperallergic weekend

And I loved Hyperallergic Weekend's putting on the web my review of Sarah Plimpton's show at the June Kelly Gallery, thanks, Hyperallergic Weekend!!!!!

what about...

QUERY:  what about if I move my blog to tumblr and "pierthinking," will I lose this one? not that they aren't both about place, but i'd rather a more open place, like out on the edge of, or then walking along on, a pier, jutting out into some ocean...
wonder how that would work
and in the meantime, I think I have to read Elizabeth Bowen more, nothing happened when I read the Death in (or of, can't remember, it didn't take the first time )the Heart, but a House in Paris, gracious, thanks to Pat Laurence
and now i think I m ust read Heat of the Day, because of the white light coming through the shutters in wartime, or so I read somewhere
love reading AROUND more than reading in, but I do see that "Leaning In" is where a lot of us should be or are going
in the meantime, I love writing for Hyperallergic Weekend, and will be publishing there reviews of Proust at the Morgan and a reviewing of Drawing Surrealism... great editing job, love the place
I love loving places, especially expansive ones