Some Wednesday Readings

Things Worth Remembering: America is an Invention – Dominic Green at The Free Press. 

Wokeness as a Tax on Human Nature – Samuel D. James at Digital Liturgies. 

 

On Teaching Fairy Stories by Junius Johnson – review by Aimee Davis at Story Warren.

 

What a Victorian Novel Teaches About Friendship and Civil Order – Eric Malczewski at Front Porch Republic.

 

The New York Times and the Case of the Missing Knife – Mike Pesca at The Fre Press.

 

Ten Years After – Greg Sullivan at Sippican Cottage.

 

Trouble, Trials, and Vexations: The Journal and Correspondence of Rachel Perry Moores, Texas Plantation Mistress, edited by Thomas Cutrer – book review by Greg Romaneck at Emerging Civil War.

 

The remarkable journey of George Foreman – Edmond Davis at Baptist News Global.

 

Two Christians Made a Show about Jews. It’s Phenomenal – Batya Ungar-Sargon at The Free Press.

 

How Artists Communicate: A Look at Johannes Vermeer – Sara Swacina at Faith on View.

 

Painting: Woman Holding a Balance, il on canvas (1662-1663) by Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 

Looking for the Poetry in Vermeer, a Blockbuster of an Art Exhibition

The hottest ticket on the planet right now isn’t a Taylor Swift concert or the March Madness Final 4. It’s the Vermeer exhibition in Amsterdam. 

The Rijksmuseum has gathered together 28 of the 37 known Vermeers (four are lost; one was stolen in 1990) into one exhibition (Feb. 10 – June 4). Never have so many of the Dutch painter’s works been gathered together in one place.

 

But don’t buy your plane tickets for Amsterdam. The exhibition is sold out. And don’t rush to the museum’s online gift shop or Amazon to buy the English-language edition of the catalog; it’s sold out as well; Amazon is taking pre-orders for a new edition available in May. (The museum does has the French and Dutch editions available, however.)

To continue reading, please see me post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.

Painting: A View of Delft, oil on canvas, by Johannes Vermeer.