The Death of a SymphonyThe San Antonio Symphony orchestra has been on on strike for nine months. It started with an emergency modification of the existing contract, know as a collective bargaining agreement, in the summer of 2020. I know from personal experience that by far the biggest expense for an…
What I Saw at the Museum YesterdayI went to the Museum of Fine Arts here in Houston Sunday afternoon. I wandered through the galleries of European paintings, then over to the Asian galleries, and finally over to the Kinder building where the 20th and 21st century art is kept. Here are a few things that I saw:
A Portrait of Rodolphe TöpfferCartoonist Noah Van Sciver posted a portrait of pioneering Swiss cartoonist Rodolphe Töpffer (1799-1846) painted in 1821 when Töpffer was 21. It was painted by Firmin Massot, a Swiss portraitist who lived from 1766 to 1849. Töpffer is credited by many as being the first comics…
