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An art history lesson from painter Helen Frankenthaler, 60 years later
Filling a 1965 Helen Frankenthaler ARTFORUM interview with links and photographs for you to explore!
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Kelsey Rose
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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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Kelsey Rose
13
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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Kelsey Rose
6
Looking back at our French Basque wedding, one year later
And how life in the Basque Country feels!
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Kelsey Rose
7
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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Kelsey Rose
 and 
Rachel Schwartzmann
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May 2025

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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Kelsey Rose
A Beautiful Bilbao Birthday: turning 35 with art and arroz con leche
With Helen Frankenthaler and a 106-year-old lunch date—there isn't enough time for absorbing all of the world's beauty!
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Kelsey Rose
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Paul Klee's "One eye sees, the other feels," and Arrogant Verneuil in Paris
A modernist painter inspires an interiors and design shop in Paris, his students at the Bauhaus, me, and beyond!
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Kelsey Rose
13
The liquescent portals of Yves Tanguy's Surrealist paintings
The runny, morphing shapes and nodes of Yves Tanguy, the art-focused women of his life, and seeing his art in Venice.
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Kelsey Rose
5

April 2025

Three Pots of Inspiration: Friends Edition
What kind of art/architecture/design/etc. are inspiring some friends these days? Kaity Lucas, Avery Warkentin, and I share our rich, at-the-moment loves…
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Kelsey Rose
, 
Kait Lucas
, and 
Avery Warkentin
9
Writing about art with your friends pt. 2
A fictional short story group exercise based on a chosen work of art, featuring a painting by Giorgio de Chirico.
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Kelsey Rose
, 
Lou Savoir
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Melanie Biehle
, 
Chic of Chic
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faye
, and 
William B
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The Colorful, Woodblocked World of Juliette Nichols
A love letter to Juliette Nichols's color-punctuated woodcut prints from the mid-1910s, and an introduction to the history-altering discoveries of the…
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Kelsey Rose
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