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June 17, 2013
GERTRUDE STEIN + TENDER BUTTONS
“A Carafe, that is a blind glass. A kind in glass and a cousin, a spectacle and nothing strange a simple hurt color and an arrangement in a system to pointing. All this and not ordinary, not unordered in not resembling. The difference is spreading.” This is how Gertrude Stein begins her Cubist experiment in… Read on

March 5, 2021
#THOSEWHOINSPIRE: IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM
Left: “Self Portrait on Geary Street”, 1959 by Imogen Cunningham via the Museum of Modern Art; right: “Magnolia Blossom”, 1925 by Imogen Cunningham via Oklahoma State University Art Collection “I made a lot of mistakes, and I still do. But, I try not to worry about it, because I never will be the perfectionist, and… Read on

April 8, 2020
A LIGHT AT THE END: THE 1920s
As we work through the COVID-19 pandemic day by day, we can look to history and see that the planet survived, even thrived, after a world secluded themselves for the sake of safety. In 1918, the “Spanish” flu virus targeted about one-third of the Earth’s population. The world emerged to a flourishing arts scene that presented new… Read on