Category Archive: Art & Artists
The Color of a Princess’ Cheek
I always miss Wallace Stevens’ birthday—October 2—so this year I’m prematurely tipping my hat to the great poet. Thinking of him this evening, I spent some time rifling around in the archives. I do love him so. And he loved…
Tick-Tock
I swear, the next time Swiss artist Christian Marclay’s video work “The Clock” plays anywhere, I will get there. Won’t somebody let me know when that happens and before it’s too late!? I’m obsessed with this idea—an entire film, a…
To See the Sea
Artist Sophie Calle is someone whom I hope I’ll have the chance to meet somehow before one of us is no longer. I mean, that kind of thing can go wrong—you meet the admired person after so many years of…
Shelley at Sea
I love a certain kind of macabre /fetishistic museum show, like “Shelley’s Ghost,” currently on at the New York Public Library. In conjunction with the Oxford University, curators have gathered together ephemera and relics from the poet’s life—his coral and…
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