ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW WITH LOUISE NEVELSON, 1964 INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY SECKLER Public domain work citation: Oral history interview with Louise Nevelson, 1964 June-1965 Jan. 14 and undated, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Nevelson discusses The Club, the “Art News Group,” and European artists’ migration to New York. She speaks of new concepts in art, and…
(Note: To see full-sized photos, click on a photo. Click again, after it comes up in a new window.) This week, friends of ours surprised us with a lovely Sunday afternoon outing. Antonina Tihanenok called me, saying she and her daughter Julia, wanted to know if we’d be interested in taking the Heritage Society’s Port…
The Greco-Roman Pantheon is made up of archetypes which have affected art, literature, and our thinking for centuries. Among the gods and goddesses with which we’ve become familiar is Venus, Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty, love, procreation, and pleasure. Botticelli’s depiction of her in The Birth of Venus is the soul of beauty. Rising from…
It was virtually impossible for me to not cover this story about the SS Ceramic. I just couldn’t resist on the face of it. As I got further into the story, however, I realized it was very much worth retelling. The SS Ceramic came to be known as the “Queen of the Southern Ocean.” A…
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