“Her ventures in erotica, she said, were in part intended to establish the right of women to make art from the male figure – just as men had for millenniums created art from the nude female figure.” Her most famous quote: “If the erect penis is not wholesome enough to go into museums, it should not be considered wholesome enough to go into women.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Nude Painting Smuggled Into Calgary Museum
“[The canvas] was smuggled into the Glenbow Museum in Calgary and put on display by an anonymous Calgarian who said it had always been their father’s wish to see his work displayed in a museum.”
Stella And Stanley Shouting Contest In New Orleans
“Each year, the annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival ends with a bevy of wannabe Stanleys bellow to love-torn Stellas positioned on a balcony in Jackson Square – and the roles are reversed when a woman is doing the shouting.”
Some Ballet Fans Really Feel The Dance
“Ballet lovers may ‘truly feel that they are dancing’ when they watch a performance, researchers have found after measuring the brain activity of experienced spectators.” (Okay, that may be overstating the case a bit.)
Lost Cézanne Card Player Study Rediscovered
“For nearly six decades a Cézanne watercolor depicting Paulin Paulet, a gardener on the artist’s family estate near Aix-en-Provence, was familiar to scholars only as a black-and-white photograph. No one knew if the actual work, a study for Cézanne’s celebrated Card Players paintings, still existed and, if it did, who owned it.”
Will The Philadelphia Orchestra Allow The Kimmel Center To Continue Presenting A-List Touring Musicians?
The Kimmel says it can’t announce its upcoming season because of tough lease negotiations with its leading tenant. Says Orchestra president Allison Vulgamore, “We can either have a world-class orchestra and a regional performing arts center, or a regional orchestra and a national performing arts center. There isn’t enough money for both. And I didn’t come here to run a regional orchestra.” (Her board chairman begs to differ.)
Lempicka Painting, Long Missing, Resurfaces
“A New York City auction will feature a painting by art deco artist Tamara de Lempicka that vanished from public view after it was created in 1925. Sotheby’s says Reclining Nude I (one) is expected to sell for $3 million to $5 million on May 2.”
Why Do We Expect People’s Characters To Be Consistent?
Folks tend to be surprised, for instance, that Nixon was a loving husband and father or that saintly, generous-to-a-fault old Tolstoy harshly rejected his illegitimate son. Why do we tend to assume that people have unified and consistent characters? Some social psychologists and philosophers have been working on (and, of course, arguing over) explanations.
Alastair Macaulay Is High On Indian Dance – And Angry About The Way It’s Presented In India
“Music and dance operate in thrilling proximity; the visual sensuousness is in many ways exceptional; the levels of technical achievement and stylistic polish are high. … Though I saw much beautiful work in rehearsal, much of it is vitiated by the practices that surround live performance, especially at the festivals.”
Why Are ‘Tabernacle’ And ‘Communion Wafer’ Swear Words in Quebec?
Most English-speakers who’ve studied some French know that, in France, most vulgar exclamations are along the lines of bordel and merde (and bordel de merde). But in Quebec, much to some innocent students’ surprise, the bad language seems to center around the Blessed Sacrament. Mais pourquoi?