I can’t tell what’s more regal, Pegs — that full skirt or that Calder mobile. Hope it’s a good one, lady! Read more about Peggy Guggenheim here.
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center stage will always be art
Every single thing Mallory Ortberg has written, like, already has my wit and humor. Can you let me get a word in, Mallory?! You’re just too quick for me! Like, take this whole “Scenes from Zoe Saldana Movies that have Center Stage Quotes Instead” piece. Like, get out of my head. This movie will forever have Shawshank Syndrome for me, no matter what I have going on or who I’m about to see.
Read this article in its glorious entirety here.
warhol & basquiat
I am 110% about this exhibition poster of Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. I will admit, there’s a little too much Bruce Jenner being channeled in Warhol’s look, but whatever. I’m in it too much to say no.
Of their relationship, Warhol’s studio assistant Ronnie Cutrone said,
It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy thought he needed Jean-Michel’s new blood. Jean Michel gave Andy a rebellious image again.”
Preach! I often foster the symbiotic relationship of shoes and spending money at Nordstrom Rack all on my own.
savage persona is right
Well, it’s been a minute since I’ve written a solid article hating Gauguin, so here goes.
An article reviewing a 2002 Met exhibition called “Paul Gauguin in New York Collections: The Lure of the Exotic” (oy), writer Holland Cotter wrote this quaint prose:
In fact, the true subject is the artist himself. Like any monomaniac, Gauguin was in the Gauguin business, aggressively…It was a demanding job. It entailed not only creating art of extraordinary quality, but also inventing a persona with which to promote it. This entrepreneurial public role didn’t require that he be a nice guy, and he wasn’t. He declared himself a ”savage” by birth because, he said, he had South American Indian blood. (He was one-eighth Peruvian.) And he dressed the part. He grew his hair long, wore swashbuckling cloaks, home-boy hats and an expression — you see it in the self-portraits — of sly, intimidating disdain.
Home-boy hats, ha! I’m impressed at this point. It’s like you’re wanting me to just keep hating you.
banksy on gilt
You guys, Banksy’s back on Gilt! Just in case you haven’t seen enough “Exit Through the Gift Shop” lately, don’t fret! You can bring the street art indoors and have some really intense conversations over site-specific or site-oriented artworks over your dinner party cheese plates.
Fall Angel Wall Decal
Falling Girl print
Graffiti Is A Crime wrapped canvas
There’s also all sorts of framed pieces, like this Choose Your Weapon Keith Haring work. Check it out in the next 20 hours, kids.
katy perry does aic
Ugh, Katy Perry visited the Art Institute of Chicago earlier this week and pretended to know everything about Surrealism and just art in general. Oh! And she captured every ounce of brilliance on her Instagram. #Oy
Perry’s caption says, “um…YES IT IS” to this painting. Well, darling, if you knew Magritte’s thinking on this work (or read this post), you’d know he’s making a representation over a physical replica. So, “NO IT’S NOT.”
Her caption for this one says, “also at @theartinstitutechi the original goths #americangothic.” OH KATY. American Gothic comes from the name of the architecture used in the background’s farmhouse. It has nothing to do with the couple (though I’m feeling those overalls).
There are even more art history mess ups on her Insta. You’ve been warned. First Mondrian, now this.
lauren bacall
Sometimes art is a beautiful woman who can school Humphrey Bogart with a line about whistling. And you know how I feel about a seductive eyebrow and polka dots.
robin williams
Sometimes art is the genius of a true comedian and a wonderfully-talented actor. I’ll miss you, Robin Williams, and will forever greet people with a large, “Helloooo!” before encouraging imaginary food fights with kids in mohawks.
hugo cifuentes
I organized a ton of old photos for my family this weekend, and found multiple Walgreen’s sleeves just filled with my crappy attempts to be a moving photographer. They’re gems, truly, everything you’re imagining. I’ll unveil them later this week.
With that said, I wanted to show off some real photography by Hugo Cifuentes. Notice his slick elimination of fruit stands and abandoned road signs. I hope you know foreshadowing when you see it…
josephine baker
Welcome to something I’m gonna call Monday’s Muse. Ha, not really. But Josephine Baker’s a major fox, so go with it.
“She’s the Nefertiti of now.” – Pablo Picasso, comparing Josephine Baker to a glamorous queen of Egypt
“The most sensational woman anybody ever saw, or ever will.” – Ernest Hemingway
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