Category Archive: Art & Artists
Round and Round
Every time I go to Paris’ Jardin de Luxembourg I have to make sure that it’s there—Rilke’s beloved elephant, going round and round on the park’s carousel, as described in Encyclopedia of the Exquisite. The wooden carousel, created in 1879,…
Dali’s Lady Go-Divers
This is really great. There is actual youtube footage from Salvador Dali‘s 1939 World’s Fair installation—Dream of Venus—which is described, discussed and mused upon at length in Encyclopedia of the Exquisite. Witness the watery grace of those ancient topless mermaids…
Oh my goodness…
Isn’t it the most wonderful feeling when you come across an artist for the first time who you just love and it’s all a RUSH? Right this second I am newly breathless over Jane Hammond‘s work. To me, she’s like…
“Hurrah for Anything”
I have a cartoonish sense of the beatniks, the kind of pop-informed cliche vision—people in black turtlenecks snapping in some 50s era coffeehouse—that poet Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) would have hated. Patchen pioneered the poetry-jazz movement of the late 50s, donning…
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