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The Tribe That Inspired Frida Kalho

That unapologetic unibrow, the halo-crown of jet-black centre-parted flower-adorned plaits, rouged cheekbones and russet lips frame a fearless stare. Her Mexican torzal necklaces, silver filigree earrings and onyx beads you and I could only hope to collect over a lifetime of scouring obscure artisanal markets. No prizes for guessing who she is. But let’s drag…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DLXXVII)

1. The Autumn Leaf Keepers of Paris 1930s – 1950s. Photographer unknown. Found on Life Journal. 2. A Glass Hideaway for Sale in Paris’ Latin Quarter Former stables, asking 2.6M Euros, found on Espaces Atypiques. 3. A Marfa Studio Visit with Camp Bosworth 4. A Persian Astronomical Instrument, 1866-7 Found here. 5. Try to imagine…

Parisian Woman with Baguette: A Short Story Challenge

It’s amazing to see how our minds can wander in different ways; how imaginations can wander from a single picture. We recently proposed a new challenge for our readers to become the storyteller, prompted by a historical found photograph with very little information about its author, or the subject in the frame. An unknown woman is…

Harvard’s Secret Court: A Cloak and Dagger History of the Ivy League’s Anti-Gay Purges

Secret college societies have lurked in the shadows of the Ivy League since the 19th century, and the rumours and whispers about what happens behind closed doors only adds to the mystery and allure, but there was one secret faction in particular which managed to keep itself hidden behind Harvard’s prestigious reputation. For over 80…

Discovering Black Outsider Art in a Whitewashed World

Their abilities don’t come from any artistic establishment. They didn’t have any formal training and they were not influenced by other mainstream artists. Hailing from places like Mississippi, Tallapoosa, and other rural pockets of the deep south, they’re the African American Outsider and Folk artists whose voices and colour palettes explored a world that wasn’t…

She was the Hostess of Greenwich Village a Hundred Years Ago

Marie Marchand, better known as Romany Marie was one of those eccentric characters that stood out in a town full of them. During the first part of the 20th century, her informal Greenwich Village cafés drew a society of artists, anarchists, activists, playwrights, musicians and bohemian intelligentsia. If you were looking for la vie bohème…

But Did You See the Holiday Windows at the Macy’s of Moscow?

As much as we moan about holiday decorations going up too early every year, there’s something about perusing those eye-catching window displays that somehow manages to yank us back to childhood as we stand before them in our wooly hats, like moths to a flame. So maybe you thought Bloomingdale’s, Saks or Macy’s were the…

The Macaroni Club: Fashion History’s Forgotten Drag Subculture?

There’s a famous American song “Yankee Doodle” – you might’ve heard of it – the lyrics go like this: “Yankee Doodle went to town, A-riding on a pony, Stuck a feather in his cap, And called it macaroni.” The familiar patriotic tune was in fact created by the British to mock the Americans during the…

Spying Behind-the-Scenes from Wes Anderson’s New Film “The French Dispatch”

We all have things to look forward to in 2020, but you can forget all that, because it’s time to get borderline obsessed with Wes Anderson’s new movie. The release of The French Dispatch is imminent, so we took the liberty of digging through the interweb for behind-the-scenes clues. If you’re a true Wes fan,…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DLXXV)

1. The world’s first publicly accessible art museum storage facility Offering an entirely new type of experience for museum-goers and art lovers in the Netherlands, the art storage facility in Rotterdam’s Museumpark, which will open to the public in autumn 2021, has been built to house the art collection of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in one place…

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