The Recreations Themselves Are… Genuinely Impressive
Scrolling through @ClassicsAndCurves is a genuinely surreal experience. There’s a stunning recreation of Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, complete with a clamshell prop sourced from a craft store in Albany. There’s a Vermeer-inspired series with soft Dutch window light that art Twitter apparently lost its mind over. There’s even a full recreation of the Rokeby Venus that a Dublin museum curator called ‘technically masterful.’
The photography, it turns out, is done by Danielle’s neighbor Rhonda, a retired dental hygienist who took up photography during the pandemic. Rhonda also has 80,000 followers now. Rhonda is thriving.
The Library Board Had Thoughts. Danielle Had More Thoughts.
An emergency meeting of the Millbrook Public Library Board was convened Thursday evening. Twelve residents attended in person; another 200 watched the Zoom stream, which crashed twice. Board member Donald Pruitt moved to ‘formally address the situation regarding a staff member’s extracurricular online activities.’ The motion died for lack of a second when every other board member pointed out the library had just had its best week of foot traffic in eleven years.
‘She hasn’t broken any laws, any policies, or any community standards,’ board chair Susan Ng noted calmly. ‘She HAS, however, gotten us featured on the front page of the Arts section of three national newspapers. So I think we’re done here.’ Applause from the Zoom chat was described as ‘sustained.’
