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University Museums Supplemental Resources

These guides offer further reading and viewing for reACT and Focus galleries and are curated by Parks' subject specialists.

Oct 27 - Nov 22, 2019 | Resources curated by Anita Kay

the P's… literature, fiction, poetry

How to grow old : ancient wisdom for the second half of life, PA6308 C2 F7 2016

Easy: Poems2009, PS3531 O49 E37

Noah's compass: a novel, 2009, PS3570 Y45 N63

N's… fine arts, buildings

The paper garden: an artist {begins her life's work} at 72, 2011, NK8553.5 D45 P43x

Building type basics for senior living, 2013, NA7195 A4 B85

Hokusai: beyond the great wave, 2017x, NE1325 K3 A4

Old in art school: a memoir of starting over, 2018, N6537.P23 A2

Films on DVD

Still doing it the intimate lives of women over 65 (Explores the lives of nine women aged 67-87 and their feelings about sex and love in later life and the realities of aging), DVD 000 981

The end of summer Kohayagawake no aki (Ozu's penultimate film tells the story of three sisters who are stunned to discover that their aging father is spending time with his old mistress.), DVD 002 536

The best exotic Marigold Hotel (When seven cash-strapped seniors decide to 'outsource' their retirement to a resort in far-off India, friendship and romance blossom in the most unexpected ways.), DVD 006 020

Tokyo twilight Tokyo boshoku (In the dead of winter, past and present traumas afflict two sisters and their aging father in this, one of Ozu's most heartbreaking and powerful works.), DVD 002 533

Anita Kay

Subject Specialties:  Agriculture, Biological Sciences, Human Development & Family Studies, Kinesiology, Psychology