Turin mounted a small but very nice exhibition with some fine pieces I had never seen before. The concept is that H.R. Giger, the Swiss visionary behind the xenomorph in Alien, is so much more than that. I was already familiar with the rest of his production, but it was nice to see. Can’t get […]
In a fortuitous coincidence, I was strolling through a bookshop with a friend and I stumbled across this charming tiny book by Lorenza Pieri on the life and work of Niki de Saint Phalle, and it’s extraordinary because I ad just added her Tarot Garden in Tuscany to a list of must-see places we’re drafting […]
Let me start with one simple but fundamental assumption: I hate Rodin. Not artistically, of course, but I think he was a sick piece of shit and a bastard through and through, who used women, abused Camille Claudel both emotionally and artistically, stole her stuff, and up to these days we still say she “died […]
Suzanne Jackson is an African-American visual artist, dancer, educator, and set designer. Born in 1944 in St. Louis, she spent her early childhood in San Francisco and her youth in what she defines as “the remote natural environment of pre-statehood Alaska.” Upon returning to San Francisco, she studied painting, theatre and dance, and she never gave […]
Bologna, 1490 – 1530 When Giorgio Vasari wrote about the Lives of contemporary artists, he included four women in its Part IV: Plautilla Nelli, Lucrezia Quistelli, Sofonisba Anguissola and Properzia de’ Rossi, the titular leader of the chapter including the others. Properzia isn’t as well known as Sofonisba, and why should she? She’s only the […]