A Language for Extinction: Zaina Alsous’s A Theory of Birds
And if you ask of her to come to you, her answer is refusal.
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Posts Tagged: Pablo Picasso
ENOUGH: Clara, Too
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreArtists’ Intoxicating Romance with Absinthe
The spirit was a muse extraordinaire from 1859, when Édouard Manet’s The Absinthe Drinker shocked the annual Salon de Paris, to 1914, when Pablo Picasso created his painted bronze sculpture, The Glass of Absinthe….It shaped Symbolism, Surrealism, Modernism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Cubism. Get your slotted spoon and sugar cubes ready: here’s a retrospective on absinthe […]
...moreThe Discerning Eye
Rosamond Bernier’s new memoir, Some of My Lives, opens up her intriguing life as a friend and critic of renowed artists of the 20th century.
...moreLiterary Fashionables: The Absurdist and the Word Portraitist
This week in New York, white tents are set up behind the New York Public Library in Bryant Park. It is called Fashion Week because it is a celebration of fashion of the sartorial kind. While that is happening in the park, we’ll be devoting space in the blog each day this week to two […]
...moreHeads and Feathers on the UES
Mallards with human heads are not what I expect to see on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. But that’s what I saw. Yesterday. And I wasn’t scared, because I was at the Metropolitan Mausoleum of Art in which chamber I can rely on a warm and fuzzy fear-free look into the past, in this […]
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