
Leonor Fini: Surrealist Painter and Queen of Costumes
Looking for a Halloween costume: how about one of the women Surrealists?
Looking for a Halloween costume: how about one of the women Surrealists?
Part 2 of a series on Venice.
Earlier this year, at the end of April, I was packing and preparing to move to Venice for two months. I’d been hired for an internship with the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, and I was excited to be going back to Italy: in 2013, I’d lived in Rome for a summer and studied in Bologna, but […]Read Post ›
What does it mean, when the Met is in trouble?
In a recent graduate school interview – after the inauguration – a professor asked me, “what socio-cultural or political situation are you most concerned about in our time?” Immediately after posing the question, he paused, then quipped, “Oh…this question was written before last Friday. I think I know what we’re all most concerned about.” I […]Read Post ›