I did things this week!
-Went to a talk by Thomas Crow, a big name art historian, titled Girodet's "Revolt of Cairo": Chaos and Uncertainty as Principles of Artistic Composition. It was very interesting. late 18th/early 19th c. isn't really my period so I learned a lot. The part of it about Napoleon's appropriation of Islam during his Egyptian campaign was particularly fascinating.
-The next morning I got to spend some time with Thomas Crow while he toured the museum. I mostly tried not to look like an idiot :) It was neat to chat with him about the Frank Stella show.
-Thursday I went out to dinner with J. He's finishing up his degree after almost a decade absence. It's been great to reconnect with him. He's on a student budget and treated me to dinner at the dining hall where I used to work during college. It was very nostalgic :) Also one of my last chances to eat there since the building is going through major renovations soon.
-Then we went to "Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales". It was a performance by Northwestern Professor E. Patrick Johnson. After collecting many tales of Black Gay Southern Men for his book
Sweet Tea he decided to perform some of the stories. The men he interviewed ranged in age from 19 to 93. It was fantastic!!!
See the promo
here.One of the men, Countess Vivian, was born in 1912 in New Orleans. He stayed in his house during hurricane Katrina and still lives in New Orleans today. The original interviews took place before the storm and Johnson lost track of him, but you can see their reunion interview
here.The show was just picked up by the Signature Theater in Arlington so he should be performing in the DC area in September and October of this year. I would highly recommend it!
-then J. and I went to queer beers and were social (aka: talked to people who were not each other which is hard for me). I chatted with a couple very nice gay men, including a UVA law student organizing a drag show and one very nice woman who talked about the virtues of having attended her all-girl high school and how she is (very very) straight.
-Today I went snowshoeing for the first time with B.'s parents and brother and the dogs. It was the perfect day for it and really nice to get outside in the woods for some fresh air and exercise. We'll see how sore I am tomorrow :)
eta Kitty update: Socrates is fine after Thursday's surgery. He seems pretty much back to normal although we feel awful trying prying open his mouth to give him the antibiotics after dental surgery :( Luckily there's only one more pill to finish off the course.
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