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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…
Connecting the Dots
Yayoi Kusama, now 81 years-old, is a fascinating woman and a true provocateur. Donald Judd adored her. So did Joseph Cornell. (They were both her lovers.) And in the mid-Sixties, when she put on art happenings in New York, paining…
Tale of the Tutu
There was only one ballerina who could make the tutu what it is, and was, in 1832, Marie Taglioni, the era’s superstar, and the dancer whose style defined the Romantic ballet movement. In her leading role as an airy woodlands…
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…
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