Fernando Pessoa’s Unselving
Pessoa in 1934. From Os Objectos de Fernando Pessoa | Fernando Pessoa’s Objects by Jerónimo Pizarro, Patricio Ferrari, and Antonio Cardiello. Courtesy of the Casa Fernando Pessoa and Dom Quixote. On...
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View ArticleDegas’s Model Tells All
We’re away until January 3, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2017. Enjoy your holiday! Edgar Degas, Sulking, ca. 1870, oil on canvas. Chrissakes, Pauline! No one would have been...
View ArticleDegas’s Model Tells All
Edgar Degas, Sulking, ca. 1870, oil on canvas. Chrissakes, Pauline! No one would have been more horrified than Edgar Degas at the thought of a model taking up the pen. Not a fan of working-class...
View ArticleMisplaced Logic: An Interview with Joanna Ruocco
Hilarious, possibly impervious, Joanna Ruocco is, of all the writers I know, the one who writes most purely in order to write—or so I’ve always imagined. I’ve long wanted to ask her about the...
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Augusta Savage presents a model of “The Harp” to Grover Whalen, the organizer of the World’s Fair. Photo: New York Public Library Are you tired of fellow feeling? Have you had it up to here with all...
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Matthew Thurber is an artist living in Brooklyn. He is the author of the graphic novels 1-800-MICE, INFOMANIACS, and Art Comic, which is forthcoming next year. “Kill Thurber” appears in Kramers...
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