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“Fifty Days at Iliam: Shield of Achilles” by Cy Twombly @ Philadelphia Museum of Art I just … I don’t … this can’t … Ugh. I have no words for what this is … or rather, what this isn’t. Hard to believe it made it into the museum, harder still to believe this series gotContinueContinue reading “The Opposite of Art”

Portion of “Mermaid” by Edvard Munch (1896) @ Philadelphia Museum of Art If you’re ever looking to pass the time with a super nerdy debate — and the old standards of politics, sex, and religion just aren’t doing it for you — I highly recommend bringing up The Little Mermaid. This coming from a girlContinueContinue reading “Till Human Voices Wake Us”

“Spanish Woman” by Gustave Courbet @ Philadelphia Museum of Art A running theme in the many, many galleries within the halls of the two Philadelphia art museums we visited, was the way the public — in particular the art critics — of the time responded to art that broke the then-current convention. Spoiler: the responsesContinueContinue reading “Hermosa Mujer”

“A Montrouge” – Rosa La Rouge, painted by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec @ The Barnes Foundation Every once in awhile a painting takes me back in time, to another place and age where I was surrounded by different things and engaged with different people. I get goosebumps as I see, just outside the corner of myContinueContinue reading “The Belly of Montmartre”

“Why shouldn’t I be proud to be a woman? My father, that enthusiastic apostle of humanity, told me again and again that it was woman’s mission to improve the human race…To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong, whose independence I’ll defend till my dyingContinueContinue reading “Anything You Can Do …”

Statue of the Goddess Diana – Philadelphia Museum of Art I often balk when museum signs point out a spot and urge me to “take a photo here”, and all around me are tourists, each with their phone — or an actual camera, heaven forfend! — obeying said directions. Maybe I don’t want to takeContinueContinue reading “Bull-horn’d and wand’ring thro’ the gloom of Night”

“The Models” by Georges Seurat – The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia They told Georges Seurat that his pointilist style would never work for painting nudes. He respectfully disagreed. Shot on Pixel 6 Pro.

“Little Dancer” @ Philadelphia Museum of Art “Interior (The Rape Scene)” @ Philadelphia Museum of Art “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”Edgar Degas I had to check the artist plaques twice to make sure I read them correctly. Yes, this is Degas, the same guy who had an obsessionContinueContinue reading “Degas B-Sides”