Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera are big business, though it’s difficult to say whether these two Communists would have been surprised by their blockbuster marketability. They were famous in their lifetimes, of course, but the level of interest in the…
Pope’s palace populated by she-popes First, Joan impersonates the pontiff, Oh Petre, pater patrum, Papisse prodito partum! And now this! Camille, Louise, Kiki, Jana and Berlinde ride in, red robes aflow leaving behind not flesh babies but objects all sizes.…
John Ruskin never slept with his wife. So one of the most enduring stories of the man goes. Yes, he authored Modern Painters (1843), a treatise of ardor and appreciation for a new kind of painter, typified in the work…
SHIFTING SHAPES1. Some Magicians Are Like Sculptors Pinwheel, you are a talisman guiding the light of astral bodies: save it up and blast the bad rays back to space. Backspace. Back up. You cultivate a telic chakra in your cyclone…
EXIT 1 ↗ The entire history of America is based on rediscovering what has already been found. Picture yourself, late for work, searching for your car keys and eyeglasses only to hear the Hyundai exhaling exhaust fumes out back in…