In memory of American author Ella Leffland,* who reportedly
died on September 18, 2024 —
* Leffland wrote, notably, The Knight, Death, and the Devil .
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Sunday, July 9, 2023
Art of the Steal
The Wikipedia article on Christoper Knight, the LA Times art critic
in tonight's previous post, leads to . . .
See as well Barnes in this journal.
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
The Barnes School
Randy Kennedy in tomorrow's print edition
of The New York Times—
Art collector Albert C. Barnes "viewed his foundation
less as a museum than as a school."
Roberta Smith in the New York Times
print edition of May 18, 2012, on
art arrangements by Albert C. Barnes—
"Barnes’s arrangements are as eye-opening,
intoxicating and, at times, maddening as ever, maybe more so.
They mix major and minor in relentlessly symmetrical patchworks
that argue at once for the idea of artistic genius and the
pervasiveness of talent. Nearly every room is an exhibition
unto itself— a kind of art wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities…."
This journal at noon on the same day, May 18, 2012—
Balakrishnan's Banners
See also Brightness at Noon from March 25.
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Monday, March 25, 2013
Brightness at Noon
The two symbols on the monolith from yesterday —
— may, if one likes, be interpreted as standing for
Damnation Morning and for the Windmill of Time
(alternately, as motifs for a ukara cloth).
The above explanation may help those confused by
knight's-move discourse like that described by
Jemima in The Eiger Sanction .
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