(Kathleen Gilje, Self-Portrait Decapitating a Rooster as Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith and Holofernes, 2012, on view at the Bruce Museum.)
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carix (america)
(Anna Atkins, Carix (America), ca. 1850, George Eastman House.)
chief of the undersea
(Mask of Ḱumugwe′ (Chief of the Undersea), ca. 1900, attributed to Bob Harris (Xi′xa′niyus), Kwakiutl, Vancouver Island, National Museum of the American Indian.)
roussel in cleveland
An article on Raymond Roussel appeared on page 62 of the 18 December 1910 edition of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, entitled “Yes He Really Likes to Work”:
“Raymond Roussel is the most fortunate young millionaire of Paris. He has no handicaps.”
how to address a letter
(Letter from Pablo Picasso to Gertrude Stein, from Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities.)
iconoclasts
(Head of Aphrodite with cross carved in it; 1st century, Parian marble, found near the Tower of the Winds, in the Roman Agora in Athens. Usually in the National Archeological Museum in Athens; currently at the Onassis Cultural Center as part of “Transition to Christianity: Art of Late Antiquity, 3rd–7th Century A.D.”.)
beached whale near beverwijk
(Jan Saenredam, Beached Whale near Beverwijk, 1602.)
red cabbages, rhubarb, and orange
(Charles Demuth, Red Cabbages, Rhubarb and Orange, 1929, Met)
jargon 38
(The Roman Sonnets of Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, translated by Harold Norse, preface by William Carlos Williams, introduction by Alberto Moravia. Published by Jonathan Williams, 1960; cover by Ray Johnson.)
manuel puig lived here
83-52 Talbot Street, Kew Gardens, New York. Right around the corner from the very nice Kew Gardens Cinema, which probably still looks like it did when Puig would have visited it.