{"id":3808,"date":"2017-04-30T12:41:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T17:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3808"},"modified":"2017-04-30T12:41:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T17:41:24","slug":"art-matters-story-cites-updike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/04\/30\/art-matters-story-cites-updike\/","title":{"rendered":"Art-matters story cites Updike"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In a story posted in the travel section of The Australian<\/em> on 29 April 2017, author and former manager of Art Gallery of NSW bookshop Brian Turner<\/strong> observes, “Art museums are a favorite mise-en-scene for novelists’ storylines and denouements.” He cites Dan Brown’s popular Da Vinci Code novels as an obvious example, but includes others as well and concludes by offering a reading list for traveling “museum obsessives”:<\/p>\n

“In-flight reading while returning home? Museum obsessives should relish the last chapter of The Museum of Innocence<\/em> for [Orhan] Pamuk’s exotic small museums listing\u2014Proust’s house in Illiers-Combray in central France; Paris’s Musee Edith Piaf; New York’s Glove Museum and Baltimore’s Edgar Allan Poe House. Also read John Updike’s short story, ‘Museums and Women.’ Updike met his future wife in a museum and assures readers they offer the opposite to what we seek in churches, but you must decide for yourself.”<\/p>\n

Read the full article:\u00a0 “Galleries and museums set the scene in fiction and real life.”<\/a><\/p>\n

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In a story posted in the travel section of The Australian on 29 April 2017, author and former manager of Art Gallery of NSW bookshop Brian Turner observes, “Art museums are a favorite mise-en-scene for novelists’ storylines and denouements.” He … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3810,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions\/3810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}