Category Archive: Art & Artists
Wisconsin Death Trip
Wisconsin Death Trip is a book I come back to again and again, shop although it chills me to my bones. In the early Seventies, pharm author Michael Lesy assembled dozens of glass plate photographs, all taken in Jackson County,…
Library Science
What is so fascinating about looking at other people’s books? I must admit I’m particularly thrilled by this new project to catalog every book in minimalist artist Donald Judd‘s 13,004 volume private library with an interactive online program that shows…
The Wonder Ring
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_oK7yn4e2A&feature=related[/youtube] Joseph Cornell holds a big place in my heart, and in Encyclopedia of the Exquisite, where I write about his love of 19th century ballerinas, and the film he never made, “Nebula, the Powdered Sugar Princess.” I’d like to…
Evening Star
Georgia O’Keeffe moved into, out of and around West Texas in her twenties, and the wide open skies she found there changed her life. For several years she taught art, soaked up the atmosphere, and made some of her most…
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