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Ellen Boyers Kwatnoski

Stories of Secrets Kept and Told

Ellen Kwatnoski

STARE… IT IS THE WAY TO EDUCATE YOUR EYE, AND MORE. STARE, PRY, LISTEN, EAVESDROP. DIE KNOWING SOMETHING. YOU ARE NOT HERE LONG.

– WALKER EVANS

Let’s stir up the mulch of inspiration — the sparking, loamy source of the creative process. At times, my mulch-stirring will have direct bearing on what I’m writing, and at others, none at all. Or, more likely, I just haven’t yet found the connection. Let me know what inspires you . . .

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Dance, Museums

Premier, “Homage,” Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company in Residence at the National Portrait Gallery

We gathered under the floating glass and steel roof of the Kogod Courtyard. Encircled by the Portrait Gallery and the American Art Museum in Washington, DC, the courtyard, with its filtered light and lacey trees, is always magical. But on…
November 25, 2013
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Book Reviews

Book Review: Someone Else’s Love Story, by Joshilyn Jackson

Someone Else’s Love Story, the new novel by Joshilyn Jackson, a New York Times best-selling author, tells the story of Shandi Pierce, the college-age mother of a brilliant 3-year-old, Natty, and William Ashe, a hunky geneticist with a tragic…
November 20, 2013
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Museums

The Kimbell and Modern Art Museums: Twin Texas Treats

It’s not all stockyards and cowboys in Fort Worth. It’s also Matisse and Picasso, Caravaggio and Monet, and Mondrian and Motherwell. The Kimbell Art Museum grew from the Kimbell Art Foundation, founded by Kay and Velma Kimbell and their…
November 15, 2013
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Nature

Tiny, Tasty, Twangy, Terlingua!

Following my last blog post on Donald Judd's Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX, we move on down the road to tiny ghost town, Terlingua. Once a thriving mercury mining town on the way to Big Bend National Park, Terlingua is now occupied by a few…
October 30, 2013
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Museums

Road Trip! Minimalism to the Max in Marfa, TX

I had no idea what to expect from Donald Judd’s Chinati Foundation, named for the nearby West Texas mountains. I couldn't imagine how a bunch of spare aluminum boxes in a former Army warehouse would strike me, if at all. But I did know that…
October 15, 2013
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Museums

In Love with Diebenkorn: the Berkeley Years

“I’m really a traditional painter, not avant-garde at all. I wanted to follow a tradition and extend it.” -- Richard Diebenkorn. My friends Susan and Leslie and I are all a little in love with Richard Diebenkorn, envying his close circle…
August 31, 2013
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