Forget everything else you’ve seen. This is the real deal. If I could have hotlinked to the original, I would have. So get thee to Lippmann’s portfolio, with haste. There are dozens of these beauties under Advertising: Still Life, Landcapes and People. See why Lippmann is the master (in the High Middle Ages sense of [...]
What a breath of fresh air you are on these torrid Gulf Coast days! You can relate, I’m sure, as your romantic, oft-sweltering, childhood in Cuba would attest. Nearly everyday this week was a sweaty, itchy crinoline dress day. Thank Goodness for silk and cotton! The sublime pleasure of mint tea and air conditioning!
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These were a welcome revelation to me – the collages of American poet John Ashbery – for their economy of images and the deftness of their poetics. So much of collage is grating, hard on the senses and purposely obfuscating – though it is frequently worth it, when it reaches something we can only know [...]
