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“The Master of the Gamblers”: Omnia Vincit Amor
The "Master of the Gamblers" is how art historians, curators, and auctioneers refer to the 17th-century Italian painter (Rome, maybe Naples), otherwise unnamed, who painted, in the main, gamblers playing cards and shooting dice.…
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John Yau: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
Photo by Eve Aschheim __________________________________________________________________________________ Things I Should Tell You Before It’s Too Late Princess Sitting Duck isn’t…
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“Witness to a Murder” [by David Lehman]
Witness to a Murder — Barbara Stanwyck (1954) She saw a murder.She bought all the papers.She pocketed the murdered woman's earrings.She called the police.She smoked a cigarette.She told her story and was not…
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Balanchine Quiz [by Mindy Aloff]
Question: In the Igor Stravinsky score for the 1928 Balanchine ballet Apollon Musagète, today known as Apollo, which 17th-century French poet’s treatise, L’Art poétique—as the dance scholar Lynn Garafola has written—“sparked Stravinsky’s conception” and called for poets to…
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Rudy Burckhardt’s Photos at Tibor de Nagy (part two) [by Vincent Katz]
How Rudy Burckhardt photographed on the move is something of mystery. He did it, so we know it’s possible, but try to put yourself in his position. He must have moved with a dancer’s…
