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Repository 82: Blue Notes on Didion’s Blue Nights
Joan Didion never ceases to amaze me with her brutal honesty, her curiosity and her colorful stories. I have loved all of the works by her from “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” to this “Blue Nights” book. While it was most popular in sales, the “Year of Magical Thinking” was my least favorite, there was something too fragile and too light about it. It was missing some of the barbs and earth that usually pepper her prose. Years ago she was interviewed…
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Repository 50: Art as a Guarantee of Sanity: LB’s Print Collection Online
“The Smell of Feet”, by Louis Bourgeois, courtesy of MOMA* MOMA just announced today the online catalog of Louis Bourgeois’s entire print collection, “The Complete Prints & Books”. This is a collection of over 3,500 works and includes previously unpublished works. The gargantuan task of uploading each print and properly cataloging is still ongoing. Out of 16 themes ranging from Spirals to Animals and Insects, there are only two which are ready for perusing – the Spiders and the Fabric…
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