Muskegon Museum of Art Exhibit — Oddities & Delights 2023

Not only did I see the lamps on Thursday but this small exhibit of items that don’t easily fall into categories.  From the museum website: Oddities and Delights is an exploration of the fun, whimsical, and strange artworks in the Muskegon Museum of Art’s permanent collection. Fantastical vehicles made from discarded parts, a chest freezer…

TankaTuesday 335 — Honeymoon’s Postures

Eugène Manet on the Isle of Wight (1875) by Berthe Morisot As you freshen up, I wait, gaze upon two proper ladies; ruffled white blossoms, flushed with salty air, stare, hungry robins. Gull’s cry breaks the spell; guilt flops and lodges. “Where for tea?” you ask. Startled, I turn to meet your sparkling blue eyes….

Doodads — Meijer Garden Saturday with Family

Older son and I met up with younger son, his wife, and the grandbaby at Meijer Gardens. A perfect day to spend time with family at a place I never get tired of visiting. It is a jewel of the region. Thank you Meijer Family and all of the donors and members for making it…

micropoetry at the garden shoppe

I went to a garden shop the other day and found a sweet batch of lawn ornaments. Five baby dragonscurl and roll in warm sunshinewaiting for mommy   granite effigiescall feathered friends in to bathespring water and green   purred in contentmentmoon settles in her beinglost in last summer   lands in front of meall…

Art-ificially Yours — Tonight’s Dessert

Ima finish this song, then comes dessert.  Can you guess who’s chosen tonight? Picasso Piano Tiger AI image with Bing by Paula Light Paula Light is the host of Art-ificially Yours.

Doodads — The Coffee Factory wooden sculpture

I had lunch with a friend last week at a coffee/book/cafe shop that is becoming my favorite place to go for good things to eat, tasty hot chai, aesthetic ambience, and meaningful conversation.  The place is a repurposed section of a giant factory, half of which is still in rubble and some of which has…

London: “Ai Weiwei: Making Sense” — Fat Geisha

“Ai Weiwei: Making Sense” is a design-focused exhibition at the London Design Museum opening on April 7. It features broken ceramics and historic relics from the Song dynasty, as well as fragments of the artist’s own sculptures destroyed in 2018. The show encourages viewers to make sense of these objects and question what they value,… London:…