“Fear is the relinquishment of logic... We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.”
–Shirley Jackson (1916–1965)
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“The camera will never compete with the brush and palette until such time as photography can be taken to Heaven or Hell.”


(Man and Woman, 1913/15)

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1890
Jeanne Mammen was in
“I have always wanted to be just a pair of eyes, walking through the world unseen, only to be able to see others.”

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Novembre è mese di nascite importanti per l'arte del Seicento. Il ma del 1575, nasceva a Guido Reni. Lo ricordiamo con il Putto dormiente esposto a Palazzo Barberini

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1883
Marie Laurencin was in Paris.
“Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.”

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1930
Niki de Saint Phalle was in
"Most people don't see the edginess in my work. They think it's all fantasy and whimsy."

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1927
Kenojuak Ashevak was in what is now
"There is no word for [in Inuktitut]. We say it is to transfer something from the real to the unreal."

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Do I dare
Disturb the universe?

T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

(artwork by Tom Colbie)

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1473 nasceva a Firenze Baccio della Porta noto come
"L'apparizione della Vergine a San Bernardo" per la Badia Fiorentina, dipinta intorno tra 1504 e 1507, è tra i capolavori esposti nel nuovo allestimento della sala 41 degli Uffizi

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