Deidre Adams

Times Square

Some images from Wall Street and environs. The New York Stock Exchange building has a classical pediment with its own listing on the Smithsonian art inventories catalog.  Trinity Church is beautiful, with an unexpected gem of a churchyard. The story of the Trinity Root is quite interesting. The people having their pictures taken with Charging Bull are [...]

So much to do here, so much to say about it – talking will have to wait. But for now, some photos from the Lower East Side and Bowery.

View from the balcony of the apartment where we are staying – Saturday before the storm.
Minor detour from regularly scheduled activities – a visit to New York. Although Hurricane Irene unfortunately did major damage in other areas, the area of Brooklyn & Manhattan near us were relatively unscathed. These photos were taken Sunday afternoon, after [...]

Joan at SFMOMA. Photo by Deidre Adams.
Last week, I had the great privilege to spend several days visiting my friend Joan Schulze. Joan is an internationally recognized artist known primarily for her quilts, but she also works extensively with paper, making collages and artists books, and she is an accomplished poet. Her work has just [...]

Much as I love winter, I’m really ready for it to be over right now. A large proportion of our north-facing back yard was buried under snow from November until just last week — very unusual for our location. Then yesterday, another storm with dreary gray skies and rain-snow mix all day. So I’m very [...]

View from the top of Château de la Roche Guyon donjon. ©2009 Deidre Adams.
One of our day trips while staying with ArtStudy was to La Roche Guyon, a short ride from Giverny. It’s a charming village whose main feature is a castle, the Château, which was built in stages over many years.

In visiting the Château [...]

After a couple of days in Paris, we took a train to Vernon, whose French pronunciation was often ignored by members of our group, probably giving rise to varying reactions of amusement or perhaps consternation by the local residents. From there, it was a short ride in the van to Giverny, the home of our [...]

On Tuesday, some of us had had enough of the museum thing and wanted to change things up a bit, so we decided to pay a visit to Les Catacombes de Paris. This is an underground ossuary housing the remains of over 6 million former Parisians, built into an erstwhile quarry during the late 18th [...]

Monday was museum day. If art museums are your thing, there’s no better place than Paris. By this time, all of the group from school (Metro) had arrived, and we went together to several of the museums. We didn’t go to the Louvre as a group, since it’s just too overwhelming to do in a [...]