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  Kallir, Vienna, and me 16 Dec   When I heard that Jane Kallir and the Kallir Family Foundation were donating 130 works of Viennese and German art to LACMA, I was so excited that I had to contact the Rifkind Center’s Director Tim Benson right away to get more details. Tim knew why: I worked as the Rifkind’s librarian for some ten years during which time I often lamented the Museum’s dearth of Viennese art, my real love and area of expertise. I was also at the Museum when Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (1907) arrived in Los Angeles  with great fanfare, after the successful restitution claim by her heir Maria Altman. When I found out the specific offerings in this bequest, some of which were from Otto Kallir’s original collection, a wave of nostalgia and memories came flooding back. Erika Esau on the H...
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 First real test of Google's Blogger We've become impatient with WordPress's composition requirements [Verdana, normal size, Paragraph] and thought to try Google Blogger.   It looks very straightforward.     To get and put an illustration, put the cursor where you want the image, click on the three dots to the right of the formatting bar.  Click on Insert image, Upload from computer, Choose files, highlight file name, Open, Select. Once the image is on the page, right click on it to bring up a menu for centering, sizing, adding a caption and the like.   Blogger has the caption here but only allows a single line   I prefer putting the caption  in the post below the image An oak in front of our house To place two or more illus. in a row, copy this program for a table.  Adding boxes can be by simply pressing Enter (to avoid adding boxes when editing captions, press Shift+Enter for a second line).  If that doesn't work try Ctrl+Enter. L...
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