We had never been to Pienza…a lovely little hill town with a GORGEOUS small renaissance piazza built by Piccolomini…who later became Pope Pius the second in 1458. Designed by Bernardo Rossellino…student of Alberti…it was envisioned as the “ideal city” and in many ways, it is… and not only did we touristical types like it, it […]
Category: City
High Brow/Low Brow
The art world, like the middle east, is under going a major, youth-driven, change…though luckily not so violent. Along with the established galleries and the established art scene, the 20-somethings are seeking out other venues…or really ANY venues…to show their work. Point of pride is to be in a coffee shop, a bar, a…hair salon. […]
Salem Buildings…
K. Williams Brown quoted me in a column in the SJ Sunday , and we had a thoughtful conversation Friday about Salem architecture. The columnist, only here two years…from the south originally, was wanting to write about the “new brutalist” nature of public buildings, and lamenting that Oregonians don’t appreciate good architecture. Over the weekend […]
A Salem sort of day…
Today, after a tiny but delicious lunch R made before heading to the beach, I got checking the Salem Blogs. Emily, over at Desperately Seeking Salem, was talking about cherry blossoms so later…on my drive-about…I went to check them out remembering how annoyed I was when they cut down all the walnut trees in the […]
Urban Grind….
A good looking (and tasty) coffee before R’s PNCA lecture yesterday, at Urban Grind…maybe 14th and Kearney NW?
RAIN…
Yesterday it felt almost scary, it rained so much. Finally we MADE ourselves leave the house for a coffee… and a look at the RR bridge looking faintly like a Whistler painting… and the other two bridges (…got pretty wet getting this picture…) and it seemed eerily beautiful in the pouring rain…
City Day…
Day three of the birthday week was a wandering sort of day…looking, maybe a little shopping. In the quilting world people are always coming up with interesting things to do with scraps and the window designs downtown this season have some fabulous displays. Here’s Anthropologie’s Christmas window and a FANTASTIC color display Plus this shop […]
Birthday Week, Day 2
The fun goes on. A couple of days in the city with the first event being DE May’s opening at PDX Gallery. An elegant strong show of beautiful work, sort of holds the gallery up to the light. The show combines 2-d “template drawings” with 3-d constructions…some using found objects some constructions..both with Dan’s mastery […]
Billy Collins at Willamette…
Billy Collins read poems last night to a packed house at Willamette. It was free with no tickets, the doors opened at 7:00 and as Gretchen Moon said when she introduced him, to was nice to see people lined up for poetry instead of iphones of xboxes (whatever THOSE might be…) We were in the […]
Fall Ride…
Mark Babson came to get me today for a ride in the bike taxi. We took off into the fall sunshine and WHAT TOTAL FUN!! 14th and Center: Across the RR bridge: Past the carousel: Toward (and through) the Willamette campus: over the TIUA footbridge…looking north: and looking south: and a lot of places I […]
On The Way 