Category Archives: Art

A Bacchanalian Mirage

July 30, 2024 – 12:23 pm

Associated Press – Paris Olympics organizers apologized to anyone who was offended by a tableau that evoked Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper’ during the glamorous opening ceremony, but defended the concept behind it Sunday. Da Vinci’s painting depicts the moment when Jesus Christ declared that an apostle would betray him. The scene during Friday’s […]

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Off With Their Heads – Marie Antoinette – Olympic Opening Spectacular

July 30, 2024 – 12:20 pm

One more from the opening ceremony of the Olympics 2024 in France The author and translator Bérengère Viennot had the final word. “This ceremony married classical and popular culture, atrocious taste and High History, wokeism and unchecked humour, technical prowess and the genius of Piaf – and has succeeded in provoking a terrific argument,” she […]

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Pollice Verso by Jean-Leon Gerome

May 5, 2024 – 2:24 am

“He vows to endure to be burned, to be bound, to be beaten, and to be killed by the sword.” Petronius (Satyricon, 117)

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HERMAPHRODITE by Peter Nolan Smith

February 8, 2024 – 12:27 pm

Back in the early 1980s the construction of IM Pei’s pyramid blocked access to the Louvre Museum, leaving the ancient palace of the Bourbon kings mostly to art historians and a few wandering tourists, however I regularly wandered the museum’s desolate corridors to admire its vast collection. At that time I was employed as the Bains-Douches’ […]

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Better Than The Louvre

February 8, 2024 – 6:08 am

Helmut Newton – Genuis

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