Currently on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art is the
exhibition “Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia.” Also the name of a
region in Greece, Arcadia became a designation in art and poetry for a
mythical, idyllic, rural paradise in which the sensual pleasures of wine,
music, and love are exchanged freely in a lush, natural setting, while
society’s ills – such as war and death – are mysterious presences relegated to
the margins. Such themes have been a mainstay of Western cultural production
since antiquity, when the first-century Roman poet Virgil fleshed out the fabled region and its inhabitants most enduringly in his Eclogues.
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Belly’s Wednesday Wine & Food Pairings (and Concert Review!)
Greetings my dozens of faithful readers. I hope you will be
enthused to discover that, after a long hiatus, BWW&FP has returned! And this
might truly be my favorite one yet (though it has some stiff competition), for
a couple of reasons: I was dining with my very good friend, Samantha, and after
our meal we took in a wonderfully fun concert. Who knew venturing out of one’s
parents’ basement and interacting with people could be so enjoyable?
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