The Eastside View

travel, eating, reading, theater, music; occasional political remarks

Sunday, January 10, 2016

Dutch interiors

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Prinseneiland, January 7, 2016— O NE OF MY FAVORITE Dutch painters is Pieter Jansz. Saenredam (1597 - 1665), who specialized in the depic...

Modes of transportation

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photo: Grace Zivny Hammarby, Stockholm, January 10, 2016— W E BEGAN THE LAST leg yesterday, leaving our delightful Amsterdam apartment...
Thursday, January 07, 2016

Three photos from the window

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Prinseneiland, January 7, 2016— I   HAVE BEEN WRITING here recently about the pleasures of orderliness and clarity. The opposite has it...
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Tuesday, January 05, 2016

Clothing

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Prinseneiland, January 4, 2016— T HE PEACOAT has served me well. I bought it at least fifty years ago, in the mid-sixties, when peacoats a...
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Monday, January 04, 2016

Alvar Aalto

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Prinseneiland, January 4, 2016— H ERE YOU SEE , rather stretched horizontally in a desparate attempt to fix a perspective problem, one of ...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Rovaniemi

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The view out our window, Gasthaus Borealis Puiflijk, December 31, 2015 L ONG TIME no blog; sorry: you can do, or you can write about d...
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Monday, December 14, 2015

Bus to LuleƄ

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Hotel Amber, LuleĆ„, December 14, 2015— O N PAPER it didn't seem much could go wrong. After a long night's sleep in a comfortable ...
Thursday, December 10, 2015

Stockholm diary

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December 10,2015: up at 8:15, after false start at 7:15. Looks like weather as yesterday. At breakfast (sk170) set agenda: for me, Medieval ...
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Saturday, December 05, 2015

Handler of Gravity, iii

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P ERHAPS YOU'D LIKE to hear the third movement of my Ballet: Handler of Gravity . If so, click here . It's only eleven seconds lon...
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Tuesday, December 01, 2015

Perfection, explanations, and …

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W E LIVE IN A WORLD , it seems to me, that believes in explanations, yet more and more of our circumstances defy explanation. So wrote a p...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Stockhausen at the Concertgebouw, 1980

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Eastside Road, November 9, 2015— F OR VARIOUS REASONS there's no reason to go into here I've been re-reading a journal from thirty...
Monday, November 02, 2015

Inez Storer

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Inez Storer: Allow Nothing To Worry You . Gallery 16 Editions, 2015. 104 pages. ISBN 98-0-9827671-5-3 Paintings by Inez Storer are on view ...
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