
Reading: John Singer Sargent: Painting Friends by Barbara Gallati
Art: “One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Other Works” at the Museum of Modern Art


My latest review on Now Smell This is a perfume review of Atkinsons 1799 Love in Idleness. You can read it here.
Image: John Anster Fitzgerald, Titania and Bottom, via Wikimedia Commons.

Vivienne Westwood is one of the true, enduring originals of modern style. Today is her 74th birthday! Join me in raising a glass to Dame Westwood, the “mother of punk.”
(You can read more about her life and designs at the V&A website.)
Image: Vivienne Westwood at her shop World’s End in 1985, via Corbis.

Baby, it’s cold outside! I hope you’re keeping snug, wherever you are.
Reading: “Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s.” My era, my music.
Video: Mr. TC and I just started watching “Better Call Saul.”
Audio: The new Bjork album, “Vulnicura” …

Image: Charles of the Ritz ad from The New Yorker, February 8, 1946, via Vintage Ad Browser.