Cool...drinks around Grand Central? I would say Raines Library is the place! (Reply #118)

In the discussion thread: “I have had a most rare vision”: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night [View all]

Sat Feb 14, 2015, 02:53 PM

bettyellen (47,209 posts)

118. Cool...drinks around Grand Central? I would say Raines Library is the place!

I am very close by to Manhattan, it's not big deal. I'm in a crunch time for work for another week, then things should be a lot more flexible during weekdays. But weekends can work for me too! We should invite La Lioness Pryanka, have not seen her in RL in a few years. She is the coolest.

PM me and we will talk next week!!

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129 replies	Author	Time	Post
“I have had a most rare vision”: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night [View all]	CTyankee	Feb 2015	OP
With credit to the Bard of Avon . . .	enlightenment	Feb 2015	#1
Oh, so you know the play?	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#2
Without googling, indeed.	enlightenment	Feb 2015	#3
so I guess you know the poet from Amherst...	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#5
Okay - I'm guessing here.	enlightenment	Feb 2015	#14
Indeedy so! I love her!	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#15
Yay!	enlightenment	Feb 2015	#24
Yeah, Dickinson is odd. But if any American poet would get this painting, it would	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#28
Poetry suggestions?	F4lconF16	Feb 2015	#109
I like Wallace Stevens, altho he can be a bit difficult. Yeats is fine, too.	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#111
If you're just	enlightenment	Feb 2015	#112
I think the quote is from William Shakespeare.	stage left	Feb 2015	#4
Great play. Glad you like the painting.	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#6
Many of the mentally ill are exceptionally intelligent and talented.	stage left	Feb 2015	#54
but they often should not be in managerial positions...hell on earth depending on	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#57
Yes	stage left	Feb 2015	#68
I secured another job and left, not knowing that that manager had bipolar disorder.	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#70
It really depends on the person	AndreaCG	Feb 2015	#102
It does depend on the person.	stage left	Feb 2015	#106
I'm always gobsmacked by the chaotic order of Van Gogh.	blogslut	Feb 2015	#7
You are so right. He had so much to say...	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#29
Just spent a month with Vincent via the Naifeh/White Smith bio	BeyondGeography	Feb 2015	#8
Thanks. I got that book from the library. Geez, 900 pages, really?	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#22
Hey, you started it	BeyondGeography	Feb 2015	#56
good for you for getting so far into the bio. I didn't have the courage...	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#59
Since you cited Schama, he and the Beeb did this masterful documentary on Van Gogh	BeyondGeography	Feb 2015	#69
***	Warren DeMontague	Feb 2015	#9
I sure don't need to say how I feel about "Starry Night"!	nirvana555	Feb 2015	#96
N/T	skamaria	Feb 2015	#113
A repost	packman	Feb 2015	#10
very cool - thanks !	Laura PourMeADrink	Feb 2015	#31
OMG it's beautiful - I love it.	IcyPeas	Feb 2015	#73
Let's not forget that he also helped The Doctor capture the Krafayis	progressoid	Feb 2015	#11
Oh, c'mon progressoid. Now you're just...	pinboy3niner	Feb 2015	#97
I don't think The Doctor is a fan of ....	progressoid	Feb 2015	#98
Now that's surreal, lol!	pinboy3niner	Feb 2015	#101
....who?	Warren DeMontague	Feb 2015	#99
First base	pinboy3niner	Feb 2015	#100
Those last lines from THAT play,	pangaia	Feb 2015	#12
OH YANK!!!	elleng	Feb 2015	#13
SO glad you liked it!	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#17
Oh, I'm glad you like it ellen! I'm so happy to post it...it's been a pleasure...	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#23
Great work as usual,	elleng	Feb 2015	#25
thank you ellen! I love doing these, tho...it's my fun...	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#53
The unexpected math behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night"	RufusTFirefly	Feb 2015	#16
wonderful! What a great explanation of the artist's disability/ability!	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#18
Vincent van Gogh and Turbulence	mckara	Feb 2015	#19
What genius he had and such pain. Brother Theo declined after Vincent's death. Both died	appalachiablue	Feb 2015	#20
his biographers believe that both (and their sister wilhemina) also sufferd from it.	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#35
You have me singing this	malaise	Feb 2015	#21
One of my favorite of favorites.	Richard D	Feb 2015	#26
"tears of joy" yes! That happened to me once...a van gogh wheat field with crows...	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#33
I had that beauty overload happen after a tour through the Frank Lloyd Wright house	BlancheSplanchnik	Feb 2015	#104
This message was self-deleted by its author	Bosonic	Feb 2015	#27
i may be wrong here. not sure if i learned this is art school, or just	mopinko	Feb 2015	#30
i'm a bit obsessed with his palette knife in the second night sky. He must have been	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#38
hue variation.	mopinko	Feb 2015	#40
hmm. I think it makes some sense...	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#42
Thanks CTY. I have always been obsessed with him. As for light - I did	Laura PourMeADrink	Feb 2015	#32
well, all artists are interested in capturing the light. But they just strive to do it in	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#34
Yes...not what I was referring to - I look it up. :>)	Laura PourMeADrink	Feb 2015	#80
chiaroscuro.	mopinko	Feb 2015	#41
It is hard for me to see chiarascuro in this work. Because chiarascuro depened on	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#44
meant it as a reference	mopinko	Feb 2015	#46
no, light and shadow were always important but I see how gaslight can influence that.	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#50
wow never knew you	Laura PourMeADrink	Feb 2015	#122
sorry to sound so snippy...I am far from expert and am an amateur in art history	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#123
Someone made this video years ago	Generic Other	Feb 2015	#36
that is lovely. thank you...	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#37
It's actually just called astigmatism.	alphafemale	Feb 2015	#39
In 125 Years, Millions Of People Have Looked At This Painting. No One Really Saw It Until Now.	Omaha Steve	Feb 2015	#43
Interesting! Thank you Omaha Steve!	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#47
Check out his book of letters to his brother. Definately not a "mad" anything. Brilliant writer too.	harun	Feb 2015	#67
He was an excellent writer. Really expressive of himself, his life and his art...	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#81
Such beauty.	Delphinus	Feb 2015	#45
Nice to see you visit here. I do art stuff here at DU every couple of weeks or so...	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#48
I thought Benedict Cumberbatch's - Van Gogh: Painted With Words was very good, and	ND-Dem	Feb 2015	#49
Thank you for this!	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#51
I'm so grateful, appreciative, loving - for THEO n/t	UTUSN	Feb 2015	#52
and poor Theo had his own psychological problems...he lived only some six months	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#55
"accident"?!1 Really?!1 n/t	UTUSN	Feb 2015	#60
It is now thought that the problem with the gun was an accident.....really...	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#62
The sad thing is	edhopper	Feb 2015	#58
Terrible luck, that...	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#61
I think he was too alone	edhopper	Feb 2015	#82
I wonder, tho, if he didn't want to be alone...people with bipolar disorder often cannot	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#84
All true.	edhopper	Feb 2015	#87
I do think some of his visions were as a result of his disordered mind, tho.	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#88
That's true	edhopper	Feb 2015	#90
I had a friend wonder	awoke_in_2003	Feb 2016	#125
Pictures of Vincent's masterpieces don't due them justice	workinclasszero	Feb 2015	#63
so true. I used to carry a little magnifying glass into museums but I was stopped so	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#65
Yes they have to be seen	workinclasszero	Feb 2015	#71
when I went to the Met as a teen with my aunt- she was appalled that Van Gough "wasted....	bettyellen	Feb 2015	#108
Thanks, I would love that!	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#110
Cool...drinks around Grand Central? I would say Raines Library is the place!	bettyellen	Feb 2015	#118
OK, great! I will research what's going on where artwise in NYC in the meantime.	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#119
We can hope! Gosh it has been years...	bettyellen	Feb 2015	#121
One of my all time life favorite experiences...	3catwoman3	Feb 2015	#64
Yes! That was the place of my meltdown...I started crying in front of one of his	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#66
I totally get the same feelings seeing his works	workinclasszero	Feb 2015	#74
I think in my case it was because I had been to Delft and other towns where the great	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#76
Wow I wish I could go to that museum	workinclasszero	Feb 2015	#72
I've been going to museums in Europe now for almost a decade just to see the	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#75
I'm glad that some folks get to see the creative work of humanity	workinclasszero	Feb 2015	#77
I always say that art always saves you.	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#79
When I was a child every public school	workinclasszero	Feb 2015	#83
god, yes...how can we get art into the lives of deprived children?	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#85
I went there too! They are so different in the flesh...	sibelian	Feb 2015	#107
I read the book Lust for Life....	IcyPeas	Feb 2015	#78
I must read that book...thanks for mentioning it to me...	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#86
Huge celebration of Vincent Van Gogh in 2015	workinclasszero	Feb 2015	#89
Bookmarked for FOREVER	Mira	Feb 2015	#91
Another gorgeous essay. I have loved Van Gogh from the first...	Hekate	Feb 2015	#92
Thanks for the sweet complment! I love doing the research and always have a pile of	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#105
There's an App for that....	Turbineguy	Feb 2015	#93
Thank you for that!	Hekate	Feb 2015	#94
thank you for this.	Tuesday Afternoon	Feb 2015	#95
My own personal Van Gogh epiphany came with the Church at Auvers	RufusTFirefly	Feb 2015	#103
The Musee D'Orsay is a blessing...	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#120
WUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNderful!!!	calimary	Feb 2015	#114
art is my therapy too.	CTyankee	Feb 2015	#116
Hah! I know how that is!	calimary	Feb 2015	#117
No photograph can ever do Van Gogh's work justice.	MohRokTah	Feb 2015	#115
Somewhat off-track but still interesting. Van Gogh understood the human optic system.	erronis	Sep 2015	#124
Puck. :>)	pangaia	Feb 2016	#126
I was hoping to get to MoMA last April but illness of my art buddy and my own health issues	CTyankee	Feb 2016	#127
You know, I just rrealized this mpost was from last year.	pangaia	Feb 2016	#128
getting there, but slowly and with setbacks. I have to talk to my neuro doc about	CTyankee	Feb 2016	#129

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