Archive for November, 2004

Da Vinci and the Lion’s Paw

Saturday, November 6th, 2004

Leonardo da Vinci. St. Hieronymus c.1480-1482. Oil on wood Vatican, Rome

Never too late to join 2003, I finally finished reading The Da Vinci Code. I’ll spare a formal review of the book but suffice […]

Realism for an Abstract Country

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004

I keep having these Oscar Schindler moments. You know, the part at the end of Schindler’s List when he says, "Maybe I could have saved one more life."

You could say it’s in the blood. Maybe I should have sandbagged my blog with more political entries, as if I hadn’t been doing it enough already. Or maybe […]

For All These Rights

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004

Ben Shahn For All These Rights We’ve Just Begun to Fight, 1946 Lithograph 73.6 s 98.4 cm Gift of Ben Shahn

I was born the son of an inner city school teacher and a union steel worker. Some might say I never had a say in choosing my politics, but that’s not true. My father was apolitical […]