Isn’t it the most wonderful feeling when you come across an artist for the first time who you just love and it’s all a RUSH? Right this second I am newly breathless over Jane Hammond’s work. To me, she’s like a modern day Joseph Cornell, who plays a big role in Encyclopedia of the Exquisite. [...]
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Yayoi Kusama, now 81 years-old, is a fascinating woman and a true provocateur. Donald Judd adored her. So did Joseph Cornell. (They were both her lovers.) And in the mid-Sixties, when she put on art happenings in New York, paining the nude bodies of her participants with polka dots, she was as notorious as Warhol. [...]
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There was only one ballerina who could make the tutu what it is, and was, in 1832, Marie Taglioni, the era’s superstar, and the dancer whose style defined the Romantic ballet movement. In her leading role as an airy woodlands sprite in La Sylphide, Taglioni brought evervescence, lightness and grace to the stage unlike any [...]
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_oK7yn4e2A&feature=related[/youtube] Joseph Cornell holds a big place in my heart, and in Encyclopedia of the Exquisite, where I write about his love of 19th century ballerinas, and the film he never made, “Nebula, the Powdered Sugar Princess.” I’d like to make that film one day myself, following his notes and ideas. But in the meantime, [...]
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