Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been

the two most beautiful words in the English language.

-- Henry James

Ah summer... it is calling to me.

I will be taking a much needed break from blogging over the next several weeks to complete personal research and writing projects and plan for the following academic year. For students who are interested in more information about the new courses I will be teaching in the fall, please click here. Please feel free as well to continue posting and sharing links on my blog's Facebook page and/or connect with me on Twitter. I will check and contribute to both regularly. I know many of you will also be traveling to some great art cities over the summer, so I invite you to let us all live vicariously through you and upload pictures of any fabulous places you visit to the Facebook page. It is always a treat to see first hand accounts of places and art works we have studied in class. In turn, I will do the same and resume blogging in August when I make my way over to Europe for the month.
Wishing you all a wonderful summer!

Roy Lichtenstein, Girl with Ball (1961)
(courtesy MOMA)