This is my final #DickinsonDaily post for a bit. I’ll be in LA for a few days – including, coincidentally, the evening “Foul Play with Anthony Davis” premiers on TBS. What does that have to do with Emily Dickinson? Absolutely nothing! However, my daughter stars in about half the pranks throughout the show – so that will be fun to see the first episode with her.
 | Speaking of pranks, did you see the Insta post from the Emily Dickinson Museum on April 1? The museum “rebranded” itself as the “Em Dash Museum.”  |
Yesterday, on April Tooth, I wrapped up a series of posts on the Amy Sherald exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art entitled “American Sublime,” HERE. All of my posts on Sherald’s portraits were written "from the perspective of a Dickinson enthusiast."
If you’ve never been to the Baltimore Museum of Art, you should go! It’s a great museum, and the collection from the Cone sisters – friends of Gertrude Stein – definitely put the museum on the map! Who were the Cone sisters, you ask. Check HERE.
If you go, be sure to visit the John Waters Gender-Neutral Bathroom. ;-)
“Waters in the Baltimore Sun characterized his wish for the restrooms to bear his name as analogous to the impulse that brought about Marcel Duchamp’s Untitled, 1917, a porcelain urinal bearing the artist’s signature. ‘They thought I was kidding and I said, “No, I’m serious.” It’s in the spirit of the artwork I collect, which has a sense of humor and is confrontational and minimalist and which makes people crazy.’”
More info is HERE.
While there (at the museum, not the John Water's Gender-Neutral Bathroom) we enjoyed lunch at “Getrude's Chesapeake Kitchen”:
If you’ve never been to the Baltimore Museum of Art, you should go! It’s a great museum, and the collection from the Cone sisters – friends of Gertrude Stein – definitely put the museum on the map! Who were the Cone sisters, you ask. Check HERE.
If you go, be sure to visit the John Waters Gender-Neutral Bathroom. ;-)
“Waters in the Baltimore Sun characterized his wish for the restrooms to bear his name as analogous to the impulse that brought about Marcel Duchamp’s Untitled, 1917, a porcelain urinal bearing the artist’s signature. ‘They thought I was kidding and I said, “No, I’m serious.” It’s in the spirit of the artwork I collect, which has a sense of humor and is confrontational and minimalist and which makes people crazy.’”
More info is HERE.
While there (at the museum, not the John Water's Gender-Neutral Bathroom) we enjoyed lunch at “Getrude's Chesapeake Kitchen”:
 | “Lauded by Food & Wine, Travel & Leisure, the Washington Post, Edible DC, The Baltimore Sun, and a multi-year winner of Baltimore Magazine’s “Best of Baltimore", Gertrude’s serves locally sourced farm-fresh food that preserves Chesapeake culinary traditions.” More info HERE. The house-made Blackberry-Lemon soda was refreshing, and I tried the cream of crab soup (delicious – with the perfect amount of sherry) and the crab cake sampler, 2 “Gertie’s,” broiled, and 2 “Boardwalk,” fried. Oh, you can see by the pic below that I also picked up a copy of Celeste Doaks' volume of poems, “American Herstory.” I’ll check that out soon – perhaps on my flight to LA. Info on Doaks is HERE. |
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 | So that’s a wrap for now – or nearly a wrap. One last poem to share to cap off my recent days of seemingly non-stop work, writing, and revelries, Dickinson’s “The Lassitudes of Contemplation”; additionally, the poem is offered in anticipation of my coming hours of vacation (though I suspect they’ll be anything but “still,” however I do believe they will be refreshing – and perhaps they will beget a force of spirited refreshments): |
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