Educations Matters: Diverse Children's Book Reviews
Education and parenting. Helping your child with reading, math, science and getting along with others.
I was thrilled to see my daughters interacting with art at Ernesto Neto exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. His piece, Water Falls from My Breast to the Sky, 2017, is textile art along with other materials including wood, polyurethane foam, and lavender. I wasn’t familiar with Ernesto Neto and I learned…
I founded Aquent, now the world’s largest talent agency for creative and Web professionals, in my college dorm room with two classmates, in 1986. Fifteen years later, Aquent has grown to 60 offices in nine countries, generating more than $200 million in revenue last year. It’s a far cry from the early days when we were…
I recently happened upon the Boston Women’s Memorial on Commonwealth Avenue mall in Back Bay Boston recently. Note that these three women are not placed on a pedestal, but rather use it as a support. That’s a deliberate decision on the part of the artist Meredith Bergmann. I plan to take a closer look at…
One of my favorite museums in Paris is the Musée de l’Orangerie which features 360-degree views of Monet’s Water Lilies. Specially created for this space, there are 4 paintings in each of the two oval-shaped rooms that curve with the walls. I think that they depict the four seasons of Monet’s water lily pond but…
Our recent trip to Kauai was filled with outdoor activities like the beach, fishing, and hiking to beautiful spots, but I was glad of a few teachable moments for my kids to learn about Native Hawaiian culture. Interestingly, this Native Hawaiian was charged with commercial vending for these presentations. “A Native Hawaiian charged with…