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Valerie Bettis, photographed by Barbara Morgan in the 1940’s. #valeriebettis #barbaramorgan #awildwind
That’s a hell of a way to sell typewriters. Adriano Olivetti gave his shop the same care as his machines. In 1957 he handed Carlo Scarpa a dark, narrow room under the arcades of St Mark’s Square. Scarpa gave him back marble slabs that se
Joan as Bob, with Bob. Ken Regan, 1975 #joanbaez #bobdylan #rollingthunderrevue
Klimt, dressed for work. His painter’s smock looks like a monk’s habit, with his own symbols stitched at the shoulder. He was the first president of the Secession, whose motto is still over its door: “To every age its art, to art it
These drawings are from 1918, when Schiele was 28. That spring the Secession gave him the main hall, and at last everything sold. By the end of October he was dead of the flu, three days after his wife Edith. His foreshortening is just astonishing. A
The painting currently on @bellamalim_art’s easel. How does an artist know when their creation is finished? I know Bella wants to do more on this, but I feel it already works.
This utterly elegant bookplate by Koloman Moser even has its own monogram, FW. Whoever owned it, I thought, was a lucky man. So I did some digging, and he boy did he deserve it. Fritz Waerndorfer was a textile magnate who funded the Wiener Werkst&aum
Even at end of his life, after decades steeped in the St Ives avant-garde, Roger Hilton was still quoting the Frenchman he’d studied under in Paris. Roger Bissière taught Hilton at the Académie Ranson, though he thought the idea
I’m so drawn to these two paintings. They make me wonder how such seemingly simple lines and colour can hold so much, so I did a little digging. They are among the last Roger Hilton ever made, both a distillation and a release. Hilton called d
We bought our first Daido Moriyama at Photo London. A candid, grainy, contrasty, black and white print that really grabbed me: but it was @aoakeshott’s enthusiasm and knowledge that gave me the nerve to buy it on the spot. Now I can’t sto
A few years ago for @bellamalim_art‘s birthday, we did a day of London galleries: Francis Bacon at the RA among others. The party thinned out and only the two of us shlepped to the Southbank. We felt sated, surely too saturated to be affected b
Member of Secession drew their own monogram, creating a unified identity out of their individual voices. Steal from who you admire, so we’ve had a go at ours. And on the last sheet, sneakily added ourselves because if we could choose anyone to
Ver Sacrum - Sacred Spring. . The Secession self-published their own magazine for six years. (It was always Square because of C.R. Mackintosh, who was more admired in Vienna than his native Glasgow.) We found the original scans in the Austrian Nation
RUDOLF KOPPITZ Bewegungsstudie [Movement Study], 1925 #rudolfkoppitz #vienna
How it feels setting up Tall Storeys, or more accurately, who we wish we were. . Philippe Halsman, The Versatile Jean Cocteau, 1949. . #PhilippeHalsman #jeancocteau
Du pareil au même. . It’s a joy building a creative studio with @ponemalim. I’ve always loved immersing myself in projects but even better is spending time with this one. . Photograph after Richard Young. The Rainforest Foundation G
“The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” Eden Phillpotts, A Shadow Passes, 1918. Sure the crucifixion or the fall of a city has grandeur but that feeling is brought closer when someone rev