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Elaine de Kooning Paints a Picture
The selected writings of a cherished Abstract Expressionist painter made a firm mark on the history of art. Sharing excerpts from The Spirit of Abstract…
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Kelsey Rose
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The Museum of Drawers: famous artists collaborating in miniature
A unique, curatorial art experiment begun in 1970 by Herbert Distel. In its form, it’s a twenty-story haberdashery storage cabinet that Distel…
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Kelsey Rose
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Calder's "Spirale" sculpture and its best friend, the Eiffel Tower
Imagining 1958 at the Palais de l'UNESCO in Paris, and I'm selling a vintage photograph of it!
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Kelsey Rose
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BOOK CLUB vol. 7: the home of Surrealist photographer Lee Miller and her artist husband, Sir Roland Penrose
It’s no shock for me to write that I am a tad bit obsessed with the portrait/fashion/war/Surrealist photographer Lee Miller. While poking around for…
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Three Pots of Inspiration: vintage Vuokko, design-sparking your eyeballs, and French butter curlers.
Intensifying my '60s and '70s-inspired writings, a personal trend as of late. Covering: Marimekko, Vuokko, Marion Hall Best, and their wonderfully…
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I wrote an essay for The Metropolitan Museum of Art!
Sharing The Met's "From the Vaults" film series and a very special Eames film: Metropolitan Overview.
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A personal dare from Marina Abramović, and other unforgettable reds of art and fashion history
How the color red defined Mark Rothko, Niki de Saint Phalle, Henri Matisse, Donald Judd, and Diana Vreeland.
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Looking back at our French Basque wedding, one year later
And how life in the Basque Country feels!
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Kelsey Rose
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ONE PIECE: Interviewing Rachel Schwartzmann about her favorite art, clothing, decor, and reads (vol. 4)
We'll also talk about her book, Slowing, and the nuances of a life with the chaos volume turned way down.
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THE BARN of modern architect A. Quincy Jones
In 1966, photographer Julius Shulman arrived at a New England-style barn in the middle of Los Angeles. It was A. Quincy Jones and Elaine Sewell Jones's…
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