My back has been giving me grief for months. The best cure for a bad back is to walk for miles and miles, but I simply haven’t had time to keep to my usual schedule. Finally, I had enough of it and saw my doctor. He ignored my bleating that I just needed pain-killers and […]
Now that I’m almost done packing the main floors of our Rochester house, I’ve started to look at paint chips. The walls are in great shape; they just need updating. Since my New Jersey friend is thinking of painting her studio, we went to a paint store together. First, she showed me some samples of […]
Laura Miner is an art historian at New York University. We were lamenting the death of painter Nelson Shanks this week. Shanks taught at the Art Students League and the National Academy. Although I never studied with him, I was certainly familiar with his work. Nobody can question his ability, his discipline, his drafting or […]
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