Earlier this month, we took a long weekend and headed up to Fort Worth to see the exhibition Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910-1945 at the Kimbell Art Museum, one of the best places in the world to experience art. The exhibition featured works from the Neue Nationalgallerie Berlin
I am finishing up the new book, which is set in 1958 in Germany and the miracle years of the economic boom are in full swing. But just underneath the shiny surface, a darker reckoning looms… I thought you might like to see part of the book’s “mood board”
I stumbled on the story of Evelyn Tucker (1906-1996) while poking around elsewhere and needless to say, it caught my attention. Here's her Monuments Men Foundation entry, and her Wikipedia entry contains this nugget: "She was described as 'the most outspoken female voice in post-World War
I’ve been thinking a lot about Sophie Scholl. If you don’t know her story, Sophie and her brother Hans and three friends, Alexander Schmorell, Willi Graf, Jurgen Wittenstein and Christoph Probst (among others) were a group of university students who undertook a campaign of passive resistance against the
I learned about real-life Monuments Man James Rorimer when I was doing research for The Roses Underneath. I became fascinated with his story - a Harvard-educated curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art who signed up as an infantry man but was quickly recruited into the newly formed Monuments Fine
I am fascinated by the cool cat on the left side of the famous photo of Monuments Man James Rorimer and the recovered painting Time and the Old Woman by Goya. He's not named in any description that I can find and he looks like he just wandered
Georgia O’Keeffe is known to have lived with two very floofy chow chows (Bo and Chia) but she also had several cats who would accompany her on walks. Another thing I learned: O’Keeffe taught art in the Texas Panhandle at West Texas State Normal College (now West Texas
That Which Remains was launched in the middle of COVID during the height of the online event era. Luckily I have a husband who does events for a living and an entire cohort of generous participants that made the event fun. There was a virtual tour of Wiesbaden, a chat