Earlier this year new media artist Liliana Farber exhibited Proximal, Distal, Adrift at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia (February 28 – April 18, 2020). At the time, I was living about an hour outside of Richmond and was excited at the idea of seeing the exhibit in person. Unfortch, by the time I learned of Read more
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In Draw Your Weapons, a beautiful meditation on art, war, and the metaphor that connects each to the other, Sarah Sentilles makes mention of many works of art. I was especially curious about the contemporary art she mentioned—the art about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and about the aesthetic of violence—and wanted a visual Read more
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Sophie Calle’s “On the Hunt”
FUCK YEAH, NEW SOPHIE CALLE!!! Which I stumbled upon by total accident while looking for a digitized version of a previous Sophie Calle piece (which I’ve not yet found). Her latest work, “On the Hunt,” is an exclusive for the November 2020 issue of Wallpaper* magazine. Editor-in-Chief Sarah Douglas writes in the issue’s introduction, Dear Read more
The moment I saw this photo of Regina King from this year’s Emmy’s… …I immediately thought of the Scrovegni Chapel ceiling: The dress is haute couture, Look 29 of Schiaparelli’s Spring/Summer 2020 collection. It’s described on the fashion house’s website as an “asymmetric bustier dress in electric blue faille embroidered with multicolored jewels.” The Scrovegni Read more
Charles Estienne (1504-1564) was a French printer and anatomist who in 1545 printed one of the first anatomies to include illustrations1. This book, De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres (On dissection of the human body), includes 62 full-page woodcuts printed from 56 woodblocks, each receiving from the start attention for their eroticism and novel Read more
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Set in Bembo
After finishing Brunelleschi’s Dome, Ross King’s book on the apex of architectural and engineering innovation during the Italian Renaissance, I flipped to the copyright page and noticed, near the very bottom, the following sentence: Set in Bembo I noticed too that the sentence is un-punctuated, which did not strike me as exceptionally odd—especially after checking at Read more