I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. We celebrated Valentine’s day with lunch at a new place, a visit to the museum and time at the bookstore. My kind of day.
It has been a while since we’ve gone to see an art exhibit but this one made up for it. The Blanton Museum of Art had a collection on display from the Judy and Charles Tate collection of Latin American Art, La Linea Continua. When I first read about this I think my mind just zeroed in on Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera so I knew I had to go but little did I realize there were only two works on display by them.
Don’t worry, I was upset. In fact I was excited to discover art works I hadn’t seen before. I saw paintings by artists from Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina and other Latin American countries. One of my favorite paintings was this one, Ley Marcial by Antonio Berni. I loved this painting because of the bold colors and the fact that the artist even incorporated mixed media in the painting. For example, for the band on the hat he used the metal from tap shoes.
We also visited the museum shop and I was hoping they would have nice postcards from the paintings we saw and they did have a couple but not my favorite ones. Anyway, still a lot of fun.
Finally we went to Barnes & Noble to relax a bit and as I had a coupon I couldn’t let that go to waste so I bought The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon. I know so many of you have enjoyed it so I’m looking forward to reading this.
But before I start that book I really need to finish some others in progress and not to mention that I’m only half way through The Last Policeman and I need to finish that soon. Maybe if I hadn’t taken a two hour nap today I would have been able to read more. Oh but that felt good. So how was your weekend?
Sounds like you’d a wonderful weekend, Iliana! 🙂
And you bought The Winter People! That’s been on my wishlist after reading several reviews on it.
Hope you’re enjoying reading The Last Policeman.
What a nice day! I finished THE LAST POLICEMAN on audio a couple of days ago. Am not going to write about it until after my group meets, but I’ll be interested in hearing what you think about it. I’ll be reading the two sequels or maybe listening to them. Not sure which. It’s a different sort of mystery, but I liked it more than I thought I would. Hope you like THE WINTER PEOPLE.
I very rarely treat myself with ART, but recently my mom, sister and I went to a play and it was so refreshing. Need to get more of that in my diet! And I loved The Last Policeman series. That final installment is a doozie.
Naps are always very nice!
What a nice weekend and wonderful way to celebrate Valentine’s Day! It was arctic all weekend so I spent it indoors under a quilt with my cats and my poor husband had to work.
Sounds like a nice Valentine’s Day. I’ve been wanting to visit a museum too, it’s been too long. And Barnes and Nobles also! Very nice 🙂
I went to a concert on Valentine’s Day, it was tons of fun but the weather has been crazy. So much snow and cold temps. I’m eager for the summer.
What a wonderful way to spend Valentine’s Day, Iliana. The museum exhibit sounds like it was very worthwhile.
We had a quiet weekend. Mouse had her soccer lesson and then we went out to lunch as is our habit. Mouse had a stack of Valentine’s Day presents to open from various family members who couldn’t help themselves–fortunately most were books. It was a nice day. And a really nice long weekend, given the holidays surrounding it.