This week, I was lucky enough to go down to the city (more on that another time) and see a current exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500 – 1800. It's a very grand show, and I highly recommend visiting it if you're in the area. While the mounted carpets, … Continue reading MMA Exhibition: the Interwoven Globe
Category: review
How's Your Weekend?
Yesterday evening, I went on an unusual date to "Expo 1920s", a program put on by undergraduates at the Russell Sage's Women's Studies Center and the Rensselaer County Historical Society. (Visiting that campus in Troy makes me almost wish I'd gone to a private college! SO BEAUTIFUL.) I had no idea what to expect, as … Continue reading How's Your Weekend?
The Lady and the Highwayman (1989)
For my first review, I'd like to go with a "favorite" of mine - The Lady and the Highwayman. It's an adaptation of a Barbara Cartland novel that, surprisingly, stars Hugh Grant (not that surprising, thought, as a lot of established actors seem to have worked on one or another of these). Plot: The film … Continue reading The Lady and the Highwayman (1989)
Mimic of Modes 