Sharp stripes of shadow lay on the grass, and the dew dancing on the tips of the flowers and leaves made the garden like a mosaic of single sparks not yet formed into one whole. The birds, whose breasts were specked canary and rose, now sang a strain or two together, wildly, like skaters rollicking arm-in-arm, and were suddenly silent, breaking asunder.
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves
You can find the Call for Papers and Call for Artists on the conference site, along with submission instructions.
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One EW pairing links Jean-Paul Sartre with a pug dog, but AbeBooks connects that pug pup to Agatha Christie.
Woolf is not paired with a look-alike pet on the AbeBooks’ blog, but EW juxtaposes her alongside a greyhound.
Check it out and see if you notice any resemblance. I myself do not. But maybe I am biased in my favorite author’s favor.
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Valentina posted a comment and link on Blogging Woolf that clued me in to the fact that she is a Woolf afficianado whose most recent project is a lost wax hot cast bronze sculpture of Woolf.
The sculpture is available in four different finishes in a limited edition of eight pieces. It measures nearly 8 inches by 5 1/2 inches and is priced at $1,200.
You can see more views of Mazzei’s sculpture here and here.
I plan to be in Rome in mid-May, and I hope I have the opportunity to meet Valentina and the bust in person. If so, I will write more about it.
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The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University will host the exhibition A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections.
The exhibit, which focuses on the work of Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry, Duncan Grant and Dora Carrington, will be on display at the Evanston, Ill., museum’s main and Alsdorf galleries from Jan. 15 to March 14. Admission is free and open to the public.
Get the details about the exhibition. View digital images of works from the exhibition online.
The museum and other Northwestern entitities have also scheduled a variety of related events and programs, many of which are free. They include:
If you want to bone up on the main figures of the Bloomsbury group, you can read “Ten Characters In Search of a Group: A Sketch of Bloomsbury,” written by One-Soon Her, here.
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No pun intended. Really.
The four bloggers have extended an open invitation to join them in a wintertime group read and online discussion of four Virginia Woolf novels in two months.
Here’s the schedule:
Dozens of bloggers have already signed on to participate in the conversation. You can, too. Just subscribe to the comment feed for the original invitation post: “Woolf in Winter: An Invitation.”
Read more about the plan on the Nonsuch Book blog under the heading “Woolf in Winter: The Conversation Starts Soon.”
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