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This March I decided to share snippets of research I’ve done on female creatives, specifically visual artists. The response through private messages and comments made clear that these women’s stories should be eligible for an homage of sorts, and their stories should not be buried in heavy art texts only to be accessed by the annointed art scholar. So in the spirit of sharing and fast output, here are the 21 women I discovered and rediscovered this month for Women’s…
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After a transcontinental red eye from the West coast, I dropped my bags in the West Village and took the subway uptown. On twenty-eight hours of no sleep, I arrived at the Guggenheim to see the “Hilma af Klimt: Paintings for the Future” show. This was a pilgrimage, as a woman artist who knows 100 percent that we have not been given our due in the art world, that our natural creativity and depth of thinking have not been explored…
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Celebrating women’s history month I figured I would be posting more images of women artists, doing more write ups of women artists, and at the very least looking at more artwork by women. In true banana slug fashion though, the month of March is rolling to an end, and I have been able to post only once, and will now simply provide an overview of some of the female art and artists I did ponder this month. I was…
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I just received a package of reconnaissance for my ongoing scent, parfumerie and all things alchemical project. The most intriguing was a recent “art exhibit” fragrance launched by JCrew. They did not go the anemic grass and floral bomb route as other mid-tier retailers have done in the past. Instead they went a more intellectual route by collaborating with a fragrance boutique “Arquiste”, and based the fragrance on the “Exhibition by 31 Women” by Peggy Guggenheim in 1943. That’s right,…
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