In Candice Bergen’s second memoir, A Fine Romance, published in April, the author “interweaves 35 years of love affairs — with her first husband, the French director Louis Malle; their daughter, Chloe; and her second husband, the real estate developer and philanthropist Marshall Rose. She also parses the nation’s infatuation with the CBS sitcom ‘Murphy Brown,’ in which she starred for a decade as a take-no-prisoners, formerly booze-guzzling television reporter.” Click here to read a NY Times interview with Ms. Bergen.
“In his home in Lahore, Pakistan, Saleem Khan holds up his late father’s violin. There are no strings, the wood is scratched and the bridge is missing. ‘There was a time when people used to come to Lahore from all over the world to hear its musicians,’ the 65-year-old violinist says in the new documentary, 
“For hundreds of years, women in the South Korean island province of Jeju have made their living harvesting seafood by hand from the ocean floor. Known as haenyeo, or sea women, they use no breathing equipment, although a typical dive might last around two minutes and take them as deep as ten metres underwater. Wearing old-fashioned headlight-shaped scuba masks, most dive with lead weights strapped around their waists to help them sink faster. A round flotation device called a tewak, about the size of a basketball, sits at the surface of the water with a net hanging beneath it to collect the harvest. Some use a sharp tool to dig conch, abalone, and other creatures from the crevices on the seafloor. . . . Of the approximately twenty-five hundred active divers today (down from more than twenty thousand in the nineteen-sixties), the vast majority are over the age of sixty.” Read more and see photos of the intrepid women 
To celebrate the work of Joan Miró, the Denver Art Museum is presenting a one-day symposium on Thursday, May 7 (9 am-4 pm) about creativity and aging, featuring inspirational talks and immersive workshops.
Start the day with an exclusive early hours visit to the exhibition, Joan Miró: Instinct & Imagination. The official program kicks off with a keynote presentation by Tim Carpenter, founder and executive director of EngAGE, who will share insights into the importance of creativity in aging. Following this, Gwen Chanzit, the DAM’s curator of modern art, will dive deep into the work of Joan Miró, discussing the artist’s process and inspiration, and revealing how he created some of his greatest works later in life.
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