The artist in winter
I asked four of my summer workshop students how they’re coping with this unusually cold winter, and what they’re working on. SUE LEO “My typography class all semester long thought the angry feminist featured in the movie Helvetica was absurd, as she blamed all the wars and strife in life on this typeface. There are …
Three Ladies of Spain
Portrait of Elizabeth of Valois by Sofonisba Anguissola. Elizabeth of Valois (1545 to 1568) was the eldest daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de Medici. She was described as timid but close to her formidable mother. Elisabeth was married by proxy to Phillip II of Spain at age 14, as part of the peace …
The Sleep-Deprived Artist
Gail Kellogg Hope is an artist, clothing designer, and the mother of a new young son. I asked her to write about the trials of temporarily misplacing her career in favor of motherhood. 1170 Huntarian Psalter. Want to know how she’s getting stuff done? She tied the little bugger in his crib, that’s how. He’s not …
Crazy for art
Did Inge see herself as the serving girl in the upper window of Andrea del Sarto’s Last Supper in Florence? The wonderful thing about reading on a Kindle is how easy it is look up things you’re not familiar with. Yesterday, I stumbled across hyperkulturemia. Stendhal’s syndrome or hyperkulturemia is a psychosomatic illness that causes …
Louis Comfort Tiffany need not apply
Pastoral window in Second Presbyterian Church, Chicago, IL, installed 1917. Too bad Tiffany was an artisan, not an artist, right? Luckily for him, he could have bought his way into SoHo several times over. Only a Philistine could doubt that New York is the center of the art world, but I have to admit there …