By Laura Grimes
Quick! Take a picture! JoJo found a new buddy who was very nice about playing with him, even though it was against the rules.
The Yeoman Warders at the Tower of London aren’t supposed to hold things while their pictures are being taken. Someone snapped a photo a few years back of a Warder [...]
By Bob Hicks
Like “a troop of fairy-tale dwarfs turned to stone by an evil sorcerer” — or so Ken Johnson describes them in his review this morning in the New York Times — they march, mourning the death of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (1371-1419). These 16-inch-tall alabaster carvings, which these days do most [...]
By Laura Grimes
The Pantsless Brother tried to make a dash for the bathroom this morning without getting dressed first. Too late! I see London, I see France …
As it so happens, he was taking the bullet train from London to Paris that very day.
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I have reams to write about, but I’m just too pooped, so [...]
By Laura Grimes
JoJo didn’t come out to play much today. It’s possible he was shy, but between you and me, I think he stayed up too late.
He did, however, find this friend in the churchyard at St. Paul’s Cathedral:
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We spent most of our time at the Tate Modern, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this weekend. [...]
By Bob Hicks
Mr. Scatter has been thinking about wit lately, partly because he’s been rereading Jane Austen’s novel Emma and partly because, as regular Scatterers know, he attended the opera last Friday evening to see and hear Rossini’s splendidly whimsical opera buffa The Barber of Seville.
Both works, as the globe-trotting Mrs. Scatter has pointed out, [...]
By Laura Grimes
A constant thrum of helicopters filled the air today. I know that sound, and when I hear it I look for it. It’s one thing when the helicopters are moving. It’s another thing when they’re hovering. It means something’s up.
The Pantsless Brother and I shared some van Eyck, Rembrandt and Turner together at [...]
By Martha Ullman West
Art Scatter is always pleased as punch to accept an essay from its chief correspondent and occasional world traveler, Martha Ullman West. MUW has been a busy woman lately. Herewith we offer her personal recollections of the late, great Lena Horne; her thoughts on the swan song of dancer Gavin Larsen, retiring [...]
by Laura Grimes
JoJo and I say hello from London. Let’s surprise Mr. Scatter by filling him in this way about our travels, shall we?
Editor’s note before I begin: I have The Wimpy Camera and when it comes to camera equipment, even the wimpy kind, I am technically disabled. So my deep apologies in [...]
By Laura Grimes
Mrs. Scatter’s final thoughts and look back — and a chance to add what she missed before:
Forget coherence. Forget cohesion. Stutter and start is the only way to blog live about the opera. People talk and joke and all that is part of the cheerful scene, but forget trying to put two words [...]
By Laura Grimes
Mrs. Scatter is considerably fond of facial hair, and Mr. Scatter’s beard in particular, so she’s concerned what type of shave he has in mind. Let’s hope it’s the farcical kind because we’re blogging in tandem tonight about The Barber of Seville. That’s right, folks …
Live from Portland Opera, it’s Scattering Night!
We’ll be [...]