What I’m Reading Now: Amy L. Hofland
Amy L. Hofland: Director, Crow Collection of Asian Art
Books: I just finished Lisa See’s Shanghai Girls. It is a novel about two sisters in Shanghai and their remarkable journey to the West Coast in the early 20th century. Lisa See’s grandmother made a similar trip in her early twenties, so it is inspired by her family’s real history. The DMA’s Arts and Letters Live and the Crow Collection are bringing Ms. See to Dallas March 11. 2010. Based on the vibrancy of the book I can assure you her talk will be great. I am about to read Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City by Stella Dong—recommended as the best non-fiction on Shanghai in the 1920s by my friend Alan May. I find this topic fascinating. Perhaps an exhibition is brewing? Summer House by Nancy Thayer is a leftover from the NYT 2009 “Girls of Summer” reading list and a very informal but fun book club we formed in June as a result of the NYT article. It’s my occasional trip to the beach—a bit slow to the read (based more on my life than the book’s content), but the story chronicles the Wheelwright clan through the perspectives of their matriarch, ninety-year-old Anne Wheelwright, also known affectionately as Nona. Reading about other peoples’ family drama is always a nice escape from one’s own. I am also about a few pages into Rogues Gallery by Michael Gross, the unofficial juicy and probably very true history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I spent a summer there as a graduate intern in 1998, so it’s fun to relive the galleries and the personalities. A definite must read for anyone with an interest in art and museums.
Websites: Frontburner (of course), Facebook (addicted—its how I get my news), Styleswoon, Nonchalantmom
Magazines, newspapers and journals: Dallas Morning News, New York Times, New Yorker, Arts of Asia Magazine, Orientations, Art+Auction, D Magazine, Texas Monthly.
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