Thoughts on 21st Century Life
I recently had the pleasure of, first, reading James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk, then seeing Barry Jenkins’ film adaptation. I loved them both. I highly recommend both. But if you can, definitely read the novel first. I won’t much bother with a novel once I’ve seen the movie (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s …
Several years ago, I watched a documentary called “Tim’s Vermeer.” For any art lovers out there, the film documents a gentleman (Tim Jenison) who sets out to prove that Johannes Vermeer, the Golden Age Dutch master of light and stillness, did not paint his striking images strictly from his own ocular observation. Instead, Tim argues, …