Street Market, Suffolk Street, New York
1946
Todd Webb
Art
Manhattan, 1959
Broadway at Wall Street, New York
1959
Todd Webb
Robert Longo: Untitled (Windows at Night)
Rodin: The Old Courtesan
Auguste Rodin
The Old Courtesan
Also called She Who Was The Helmet Maker’s Once-Beautiful Wife (Celle qui fut la belle heaulmière)
Modeled 1887, this bronze cast 1969
(via Brooklyn Museum)
“Anyone can see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl she used to be. A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is … and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be … more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart.”
— Robert A. Heinlein, referring to this sculpture in Stranger in a Strange Land
Emily Dickinson was here
Emily Dickinson’s only surviving dress, Amherst Historical Society, Amherst, Massachusetts, 2010 (photo: Annie Leibovitz, from Pilgrimage).
N is for Neville
View all the Gashlycrumb Tinies here.
A letter from Edward Gorey
Envelope illustrated by Edward Gorey. (via)
“This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.”
— Edward Gorey
Joyce
James Joyce. Scratchboard portrait by Mark Summers, whose work you will recognize from Barnes & Noble shopping bags, among other places.