“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

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

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