February 9, 2010
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February 8, 2010
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February 3, 2010
Bronzino’s Italy (like punk’s New York) was a mess: The Plague had struck, and on May 5, 1527, Rome was sacked. Thousands of civilians were killed, churches destroyed, the pope jailed. What were artists to do? Bronzino performed a vivisection on the vocabulary of painting, particularly when it came to portraying overbred, high-strung aristocrats. Bronzino’s people, he said, are “steel inside and ice without.” It’s not so evident in his drawings, but his painted portraits leave one colder and more weirded out than perhaps any other artist in Western art. But it’s a new weird, a hot kind of cold.
Gotta love Jerry Saltz!
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February 2, 2010
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After she opens a show, you go back to her home, and she and her mother have cooked all of this incredible Persian food. I hesitate to say no to an invitation, ever. You meet such interesting people.
Lisa Dennison, the chairwoman of Sotheby’s North and South America and another longtime friend of Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller, an Iranian expatriate dealer and gallerist.
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@brooklynmuseum

justsara:

The institution is livetweeting their re-wrapping process of a Roman mummy that died around 300AD—they have pictures (of the actual mummy) and all!

It’s pretty freakin’ cool.

I’m not on Twitter but shamelessly follow certain threads. This is awesome.

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I see Michael Musto everywhere!

I see Michael Musto everywhere!

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