Art
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Getting up close with the waterlilies: Some thoughts on Monet, the Immersive Experience
Title Image: Water Lilies, 1917/19, Honolulu Museum of Art. You may have realised, if you’ve followed this blog for a while, or my Instagram account, that there are a couple of things that I really love and, not to put too fine a point on it, won’t shut up about. One is Jane Austen, another read more
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Stepping into History
Join me for a slightly self-indulgent post about shoes from history, Fragonard’s “The Swing”, Madame de Pompadour and fashionable footwear at eighteenth-century Versailles… read more
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Mini-Post | Bridgerton and Petworth House
A mini-peek into one of the Bridgerton filming locations for season 2. read more
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Mini-Post | Miami Art Deco District
The Art Deco District, otherwise known as the Miami Beach Architectural District, entered the National Register of Historic Places on 14th May 1979. It was thanks to the determination of Barbara Baer Capitman (1920-1990), who founded the Miami Design Preservation League with industrial designer Leonard Horowitz in 1976. Capitman was highly committed to saving the read more
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Vintage Valentines
Happy Valentine’s Day! A day to celebrate everybody we love in our lives, I thought I’d share some vintage valentine cards. Valentine’s Day is often said to have originated with the Roman feast of Lupercalia, a festival of fertility that took place between the 13th and 15th February, that was then taken over by the read more
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Mini-Post | Toulouse-Lautrec’s Dinner with the Natansons
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec sketched this when he was being hosted by Thadée and Misia Natanson for dinner. Misia commands the scene in the middle: as one half of the ruling couple of Paris’ intellectual elite, she was painted by many artists and even inspired several characters written by Marcel Proust. She was a wonderful pianist read more
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Mini-Post | April in Paris
I took some time away from social media over the weekend (we all need a break once in a while I think!) and watched my favourite actress Doris Day in April in Paris, which was a joy. Doris plays a chorus girl, Ethel Jackson, who is accidentally sent a letter meant for Ethel Barrymore (a read more
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Mini-Post | The Getty Villa
“One could say, ‘Go to Pompeii and Herculaneum and see Roman villas the way they are now – then go to Malibu and see the way they were in ancient times.’” J. Paul Getty, Los Angeles Times, 1974 The Getty Villa was the brainchild of J. Paul Getty (1892-1976), who made his fortune in oil read more
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Mini-Post | Van Gogh & Sunflowers
Van Gogh (1853-1890) painted sunflowers many times across his decade-long career –not only did he like the happiness they evoked, and that they were more coarse than the flowers other artists typically included in still life, they gave him chance to experiment with colour more than other still life paintings. Van Gogh became so known read more
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Mini-Post | Lilla Cabot Perry (1848-1933)
The Blue Kimono, 1915, oil on canvas. Is Female Artist Friday a thing? If it is, I’m joining in! This painting by Lilla Cabot Perry caught my attention a long while ago at the San Diego Museum of Art – I love the flowers and the beautiful blue kimono so much! Perry was born in Boston read more
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Dr. Lizzie Rogers 