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FONDATION PIERRE BERGE YVES SAINT LAURENT
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Jun 6, 4:44pm
3 reviews
•http://www.fondation-pb-ysl.net/
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Yves Saint Laurent
May 29 to September 28, 2008
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco have designed and developed, in partnership with the Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent, the first retrospective spanning the forty years of creation of the Maison de haute couture Yves Saint Laurent. Presented from May 29 to September 28, 2008, the exhibition Yves Saint Laurent focusses on this virtuoso of haute couture, whose unique style blends references to the world of art with allusions to pop culture and social revolution. Structured around four themes, the exhibition develops the revolutionary nature of a body of work that has marked both the past and the present with a new definition of femininity and left a signature that transcends fashion. The display will include 145 accessorized creations belonging to the Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent, as well as drawings and videos. After Montreal, the exhibition (which is the first co-production of these two museums) will be presented at the de Young Museum of San Francisco, from November 1, 2008, to March 1, 2009.
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Theodore Roethke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jun 6, 4:43pm
2 reviews
poetry
•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore...
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Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963) wrote of his poetry: The greenhouse "is my symbol for the whole of life, a womb, a heaven-on-earth." Roethke drew inspiration from his childhood experiences of working in his family's Saginaw floral company. Beginning is 1941 with Open House, the distinguished poet and teacher published extensively, receiving a Pulitzer Prize for poetry and two National Book Awards among an array of honors. In 1959 Yale University awarded him the prestigious Bollingen Prize. Roethke taught at Michigan State College, (present-day Michigan State University) and at colleges in Pennsylvania and Vermont, before joining the faculty of the University of Washington at Seattle in 1947. Roethke died in Washington in 1963. His remains are interred in Saginaw's Oakwood Cemetery
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William Butler Yeats - Biography
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Jun 6, 4:42pm
1 review
poetry
•http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/li...
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The Second Coming feints in the direction of mumbo jumbo in its reference to Spiritus Mundi but, against this farfetched realm of sphinxes and poppycock, there is a picture of Yeats struggling with the greatest problem of modern world: war. The irony is that this second coming is hardly the peace-bringing Second Coming of Christ but rather the reappearance of the a terrible beast.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was born in Dublin. His father was a lawyer and a well-known portrait painter. Yeats was educated in London and in Dublin, but he spent his summers in the west of Ireland in the family's summer house at Connaught. The young Yeats was very much part of the fin de siècle in London; at the same time he was active in societies that attempted an Irish literary revival. His first volume of verse appeared in 1887, but in his earlier period his dramatic production outweighed his poetry both in bulk and in import. Together with Lady Gregory he founded the Irish Theatre, which was to become the Abbey Theatre, and served as its chief playwright until the movement was joined by John Synge. His plays usually treat Irish legends; they also reflect his fascination with mysticism and spiritualism. The Countess Cathleen (1892), The Land of Heart's Desire (1894), Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), The King's Threshold (1904), and Deirdre (1907) are among the best known.
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Jun 6, 4:41pm
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I wrote this poem years ago about an artist I had been with.
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Millays Poetry in A Greenwich Village Context--by Nina Miller
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Jun 6, 4:40pm
1 review
poetry
•http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poet...
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...Such dramatic national success had tangible effects on Millay's status among New Yorkers, naturally enough. Yet in this fact we also glimpse the dynamic circuit in which New York took cues from the national culture even while dictating most of its terms. Millay had an enormous literary and personal influence among the New York literati. Greenwich Village regarded her "with awe" even before her arrival there, on the strength of one passionate poem; John Peale Bishop and Edmund Wilson, young poets and literary editors at the middle-brow journal Vanity Fair, made it a personal mission to bring her work before a wide reading public; Genevieve Taggard and the other editors of the high-art little magazine Measure took Millay as their unofficial poet laureate; Countee Cullen, favorite son of the Harlem Renaissance, wrote his undergraduate thesis on Millay and pursued his professional career along distinctly lyrical and traditional lines; and even Dorothy Parker, embodiment of midtown urbanity , described her own significant (and significantly national) career as a matter of following Millay's example. In short, in the era literary criticism has taught us to see as dominated by avant-garde formalism, Millay's passionate sonnets were widely admired and imitated by writers of all kinds...
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disconcisions reviews
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May 26, 8:06pm
50 reviews
stumblers
•http://disconcision.stumbleupon.com/
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I don't know disconcision yet from his interesting blog, it's obvious that he is an quite intelligent man and from reading group discussions, I have also noticed how very articulate he is. Please go on and visit his pages--there is much to learn there.
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Steven Wilson - Illustrator
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May 21, 7:45pm
2 reviews
arts, illustrator
•http://wilson2000.com/section/19515.html
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Steven Wilson's art straddles a fine line between spiritual and psychedelic but at the same time is urban and tech-driven. He says himself that successful art picks up on individual characteristics of your own culture and you can see that he is influenced by Brighton which is full of eccentricity but also urbanized. His style is versatile and he is an experimenter by nature who enjoys iscovering new techniques and experimenting to produce work that looks new and fresh.
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The New York Review of Books: Homage to Philip Larkin
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May 16, 6:13pm
1 review
poetry
•http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18715
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...Larkin had the reputation of being the most costive of artists. In his writing lifetime--from the late 1930s until the middle of the 1970s, when the muse left him, returning only for brief and infrequent trysts--he published five short volumes of verse, with long intervals of silence between each appearance. Of these volumes he considered The Less Deceived (1955), The Whitsun Weddings (1964), and High Windows (1974) to contain the totality of his mature work. In those three and a half decades, however, he also produced two novels, Jill and A Girl in Winter, as well as a large body of essays, reviews, and occasional pieces which were collected as All What Jazz (1970), Required Writing (1983), and the posthumous Further Requirements (2001)...
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[minstrels] The More Loving One -- W. H. Auden
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May 10, 1:55pm
1 review
poetry
•http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstr...
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W. H. Auden was a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 1954 to 1973, and divided most of the second half of his life between residences in New York City and Austria. He died in Vienna in 1973.
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Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Schiphol - Rijksmuseum Amsterdam - National Museum …
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May 1, 3:40pm
1 review
arts, museum
•http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/tentoonstel...
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9 April to 7 July 2008
Eight paintings by Vincent van Gogh, including the famous Almond Tree in Blossom (1888), will be presented at Rijksmuseum's branch at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol from 9 April to 7 July 2008 in an exhibition entitled Vincent van Gogh: Nature Close-Up. All the paintings have been provided by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The show highlights how Vincent van Gogh took his own remarkable approach to nature, by effectively zooming in on his subject. The presentation can be seen at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (airside area, between piers E and F) and offers a unique opportunity for passengers at the airport to view the artist's work away from the Van Gogh Museum.
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