It is with dismay but not surprise that I read a description of the reaction of two “Silver Heads” to Tracy Emin’s panels on the main doors of the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Blog Posts on Art
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
In the middle of all the shouting about the Barbie movie and the millions, if not billions, Hollywood plans to make, it’s worth remembering that there was an earlier, much earlier, independent video.
Student or Colleague? The Minimizing of Camille Claudel
Is it possible for us to be perceived as original when the shadow of this inevitably more esteemed man falls so heavily across us?
Touching Camille
To me, Camille Claudel’s story represents in heartbreaking terms the problems faced by talented women who depend on recognition by a better-known man.
The Writer’s Life
Gertrude Stein managed her life to make her writing possible.
Rose B. Simpson: Leaving Fingerprints Behind
I remember when I first met Rose at her booth in Santa Fe’s August Indian Market. She had hung an astonishing large color photograph on the front of her booth…
Promise
Twice in my life, I’ve had the rare privilege of encountering a young woman of promise. Only twice because promise is handed out randomly or according to a pattern I can’t discern.
Do We Collaborate
The idea of collaborating has always made me a little squeamish.
Thread Dresses
Just as I was beginning to feel discouraged came a revelation as I was getting a cup of coffee at my neighborhood hangout here in Santa Fe.
The Abandoned
An indication of the “treatment” they were given is shown in Lundy’s sketches of the medicine bottles she found: mercury cyanide, mercury chloride and tincture of belladonna (deadly nightshade.) The sketches are burnt into paper with a soldering iron.