Saturday Notes
12x30.net is a very useful resource for all things calendar. If, like me, you do close research that may require you to know whether 21 February 1848 was a Tuesday, try 12x30.net/anymonth. It works for any month between 1583 CE and 9999 CE.
Holland Cotter,"Looking at You, Looking at Her," NYT, 22 February, reviews"Parmigianino's ‘Antea': A Beautiful Artifice," the exhibit of a single painting at New York's Frick Collection. The identity of the painter and the title of this gorgeous portrait are questionable and its parts aren't obvious fits:
Her head is far too small and delicate for her freakishly slope-shouldered linebacker's body, its bulk reinforced by the nearly full-length standing pose, rare in female portraiture at that time. In addition her left arm, with its huge gloved hand, looks illogically long. It seems to have nothing to do with Antea herself but to belong to a second, larger, encasing body, a kind of silken fat suit, represented by her voluminous coat. So this is an image of the figure as a thing of contradictions, a fictional composite rather than an organic whole.
Brian Phillips,"The Old, Weird Everywhere: Bristol Rovers and ‘Goodnight, Irene'," Pitch Invasion.net, 16 February. I stole this from Rob MacDougall because he finds great stuff! And, congratulations to Rob, whose"Long Lines: AT&T's Long-Distance Network as an Organizational and Political Strategy," Business History Review 80 (Summer 2006): 297-327, has won the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era's 2008 Fishel-Calhoun Prize for the best published article by a new scholar on United States history between 1865 and 1917.
Finally, Kevin Levin, David Noon, and Ari Kelman think you need to get a load of this:
Leaves ya sorta speechless, don't it?