Lonely City, Unlonely Painting, Today's Post

As you know, we were scheduled to discuss Olivia Laing's The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone last month, before ...stuff happened. Depending on how our Zoom experiment fares (see separate posting for details) I will reschedule that discussion for sometime this summer; stay tuned.

In the meantime, Lee Levine points out that the May 10 Washington Post Sunday Magazine includes a two-page story by Menachem Wecker—"Those who say Edward Hopper is the artist of social distancing may be wrong"—that includes a color reproduction of "Nighthawks", perhaps his most famous painting. (Laing discusses Hopper in Chapter 2.) As Lee notes, "What the article and the book have to say about isolation in a city is all too current."