Gerhard Richter

After a week of freezing cold and several inches of snow, it's raining today, and the serene view of trees outside my slanted office window, very slightly fogged from the heating unit just below it, recalls Gerhard Richter's blurred landscapes, like Troisdorf (1985):

    
I got a chance to see Vermeer's View of Delft at the Mauritshuis on Saturday, my favorite Vermeer, along with everything else in that famous collection.  It was about 22 or 24 degrees, too cold for your average tourist, I gather, because the galleries were nearly empty.
As happened to me most memorably in the MOMA Dada show, I had a revelation at the Mauritshuis, regarding Rembrandt.  More after the Five Minute Lecture downstairs.