Month: February 2025
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The Look of Love
If the 1960’s popularized twig-like Mod girls in mini-skirts and go-go boots and the 1970’s rebelled with the punk rockers, then the 1980’s ushered in the decade of the business woman. While women still earned less than their male counterpart, more and more were entering into high-status, high-paying jobs, and into power dressing. For a…
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Danaë
In 1898, the literary critic Hermann Bahr wrote in the journal Sacred Spring, “Our art is not a combat of modern artists against those of the past, but the promotion of the arts against the peddlers who pose as artists and who have a commercial interest in not letting art bloom. The choice between commerce…
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Cupid & Psyche
“O latest born and loveliest vision far Of all Olympus’ faded hierarchy! Fairer than Phoebe’s sapphire-regioned star Or Vesper, amorous glow-worm of the sky;” –John Keats, Ode to Psyche First appeared in Lucius Apuleius’ novel The Golden Ass in the 2nd century CE, the story of Cupid and Psyche was the latest born among the…
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Aquarius
Aquarius means “the water-bearer” in Latin. The constellation Aquarius lies in a region of the sky referred to as the Sea, because it contains other constellations associated with water, such as Pisces the Fish, Eridanus the River, and Cetus the Whale. The Greek astronomer Ptolemy’s Almagest depicted Aquarius as a young man pouring water from…
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