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Posted on April 25, 2013 | Leave a comment

Carmencita

Piece: Carmencita. Oil on canvas. William Merritt Chase. 1890.

Where: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Posted on April 4, 2013 | 1 Comment

John Brown William Gropper

Piece: John Brown. Color lithograph by William Gropper. 1953.

Where: Indianapolis Museum of Art.

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Posted on February 10, 2013 | Leave a comment

Interview

Piece: One of five copies of the first issue of Interview Magazine included in Andy Warhol’s 21st Time Capsule—throughout his life he filled over 600 boxes with his junk and ephemera—high end hoarding! This issue of Interview features cover girl Raquel Welsh as Myra Breckinridge and boasts an interview with chained and perfumed favorite Mike Sarne.

Where: The Andy Warhol Museum, located on the unfortunately named Sandusky Street in Pittsburg, PA.

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Posted on January 11, 2013 | 4 Comments

Jannings Academy Award

Piece: The first Academy Award for Best Actor, which Emil Jannings won for his performances in The Way of All Flesh and The Last Command. 1928.

Where: Filmmuseum Berlin.

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Posted on September 21, 2012 | 6 Comments

Piece: Lysandra cormion. A butterfly collected and identified by Vladimir Nabokov.

Where: American Museum of Natural History which received over 500 other specimens of Lepidoptera from Nabokov. New York, NY.

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Posted on June 15, 2012 | Leave a comment

Piece: The Green Cap. Woodcut, 23 blocks, 12 colors on paper. Alex Katz. 1985.

Where. Colby College Museum of Art. Waterville, Maine.

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Posted on May 19, 2012 | Leave a comment

Item: Charles Dickens‘s letter opener. “The handle is made from the paw of Dickens’s pet cat Bob, and the blade is engraved ‘C. D. In Memory of Bob 1862,’ the year of the cat’s death.”

Where: New York Public Library.

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