1980s Icon Greer Lankton Explored Glamour and Gender in Her Eerie Dolls
The agoraphobic painter Emma Absinthe, most famous for her series of oil self-portraits portraying herself as the great men of history.
Chelsea G. Summers • A Certain Hunger
As a schoolboy, he wrote in his diary, ‘I want only to be Cecil Beaton,’ adding later, ‘I don’t want people to know me as I really am, but as I am trying and pretending to be.’ His experiments with costume and identity allowed him, time and again, to choose just who that Cecil Beaton might be
Beaton arrived in Hollywood towards the end of 1929 to
... See moreWhen people think of pop art, names like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenberg come to mind. Yet Nicola, who is now 80 years old, offers a female perspective on the relationship between beauty, art, commodities and value. As curator Flavia Frigeri put it: “It’s really important to tell that story, particularly as so much pop art is... See more