Claude Monet Why good enough is better than perfectLadders - Gustavo Razzetti Perfection is an illusion — we believe it makes us better but actually harms us. Perfectionism is not a standard, but a way of living. Perfectionism …
Lee Krasner Had to Fight Her Way Into the History Books. Here are 5 of the Biggest Battles She Facedartnet.com - Javier Pes On the occasion of a Krasner show at the Barbican Art Gallery, we look back on how she fought her way to attention. Lee Krasner had to wage all kinds …
Artists How Mark Rothko Unlocked the Emotional Power of Colorartsy.net - Alina Cohen Portrait of Mark Rothko. Photo by Bettmann / Contributor / Getty Images.Mark Rothko, No. 16 (Red, White and Brown), 1957. © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & …
Philosophy The Lost Words: An Illustrated Dictionary of Poetic Spells Reclaiming the Language of NatureBrain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria PopovaFrom acorn to wren, a vibrant encyclopedia of enchantments reweaving our broken web of belonging with the rest of nature. “Words belong to each other,” Virginia Woolf’s melodious voice unspools in the
Joy Harjo US Names First Native American Woman Poet Laureateglobalcitizen.org - By Ellen Wulfhorst The job of US poet laureate is raising national appreciation of reading and writing poetry. NEW YORK, June 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The …
Joy Harjo Joy Harjo Becomes The First Native American U.S. Poet LaureateNPR - Lynn Neary , Patrick JarenwattananonPoet, writer and musician Joy Harjo — a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation — often draws on Native American stories, languages and myths. But she says that she's not self-consciously trying to bring material
Philosophy Keats on Depression and the Mightiest Consolation for a Heavy HeartBrain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria Popova“I am now so depressed I have not an Idea to put to paper — my hand feels like lead — and yet it is an unpleasant numbness it does not take away the pain of existence…” “One feels as if one were lying
Lee Krasner Gets a Brilliant Barbican RetrospectiveThe Atlantic - Sophie GilbertThe 20th-century painter is celebrated in a spectacular London retrospective that exposes the fullness of her career for the first time. In 1959, Lee Krasner was in crisis. She was still mourning her died
Robinson Jeffers on Moral Beauty, the Interconnectedness of the Universe, and the Key to Peace of MindBrain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria Popova“One may contribute (ever so slightly) to the beauty of things by making one’s own life and environment beautiful, so far as one’s power reaches. This includes moral beauty.” “Happy people die whole,”
"The Maiden" by Gustav Klimt – Joy of Museumsjoyofmuseums.com “The Maiden” by Gustav Klimt depicts the dreamy sensuality of a young girl in a dream state. The central sleeping girl is fantasising future …
Jean-Michel Basquiat Jean-Michel Basquiat on How to Be an Artistartsy.net - Alexxa Gotthardt Portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat in St. Moritz, Switzerland, 1983. Photo by Lee Jaffe/Getty Images.Jean-Michel Basquiat wasn’t a fan of interviews, …
Francis Bacon: Couplings review – a taboo-busting opus of sizzling fleshThe Guardian - Jonathan JonesThe authority of Francis Bacon’s art is papal. I am not referring to the paintings inspired by Velázquez’s portrait of Pope Innocent X that made him famous. It’s just that walking into Gagosian’s immaculate
101-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Helen Fagin Reads Walt WhitmanBrain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria Popova“The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, / The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue.” “Whitman is a projection into literature
Astrophysicist Janna Levin Reads “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” by Walt WhitmanBrain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria Popova“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.” “To soothe and spiritualize, and, as far as may be, solve the mysteries of death and genius, consider them under the stars at midnight,”
