Only The Young by Brandon Flowers

Sort of obsessed with this song right now? I can't pinpoint why but the celestial video doesn't hurt...

On View

This is the last weekend to catch the inaugural exhibition of NOW at the Corcoran.  Stop by to see Spencer Finch's special exhibit, My Business, with the Cloud.

From the Corcoran:

Finch’s exhibition at the Corcoran takes up the subject of clouds. Drawing from the history and environment of Washington, D.C., his project explores the poetic, physical, and meteorological aspects of these natural phenomena. Finch’s site-specific sculpture of a passing cloud in the museum’s central Rotunda alludes to a moment of convergence between two historical figures, Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln. In a selection of related photographs and drawings, Finch attempts to make something solid out of air, investigating the atmospheric and metaphoric properties of light, water vapor, and sky.

Stop by this weekend before it closes!

Spencer Finch: My Business, with the Cloud

On Love

"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."

-Woody Allen

Daylight by Matt & Kim

Clearly in need of some upbeat, slightly obnoxious music on this Wednesday.

Reading List

Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
By Greg Lawrence


From Publishers Weekly:
Charting Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's impressive legacy as an editor at Viking and Doubleday, Lawrence draws on a wealth of sources, including interviews with more than 125 of her former publishing collaborators, and hundreds of notes left to the author by Onassis. He was also one of her authors, co-writing three books with his former wife, ballerina Gelsey Kirkland (including the controversial bestseller Dancing on My Grave). Onassis learned the hard lessons of editing early on: from Barbara Chase-Riboud, author of the novel Sally Hemings, that the best authors are those willing to be edited, and from Michael Jackson, the frustration of working with an enigmatic celebrity. This Onassis appreciation appears almost simultaneously with William Kuhn's misleadingly titled Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books, and while both will appeal primarily to publishing and media insiders, Lawrence's perceptive, impressively researched, book is the better of the two, presenting a woman with "a grand spirit of adventure and... a sense of irony about life that served as a kind of armor" for this courageous, gifted woman.

To Buy: Amazon.com, Hardcover, $15.20

On Make-Up

"The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion.  But cosmetics are easier to buy."

-Yves Saint Laurent

LBD

Sigh, it's winter.  Winter does a number of unfortunate things to me, the most prominent of which is that it knocks the color right out of my wardrobe.  I usually trend toward warm colors; pinks and reds, sunny yellows and oranges.  But in the winter, I wear black. 

Lots of it.

Thank goodness for the little black dress!