Category Archives: People

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A Life of Lacunae

Posted on August 28, 2023 by Art for Housewives

It’s 9 a.m. and the cicadas are having a loud and lively jam session. It is understandable. They spend the first 17 years of their life underground then come out to mate. It’s the males that make all the noise … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, People | Tagged A Start in Life, Anita Brookner, Anthony Blunt, Art History, Balzac, Courtauld Institute, loneliness | 2 Comments

The Master, Margarita, and Mona

Posted on September 16, 2022 by Art for Housewives

Even when she was seated and still, Mona was a moving picture. Best of friends for years, we were separated by geography. Then by death. Born in Cairo, Mona grew up in London. She’d studied all over Europe, spoke four … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, People, politics | Tagged cats, chaos, dissent, Elena Sergeevna Shilovskaya, Mikhail Bulgakov, Mona Sehrawy, power, Queen Elizabeth II, Stalin regime, Sympathy for the Devil, the Devil, The Master and Margarita, witches | Leave a comment

Centered

Posted on August 30, 2022 by Art for Housewives

Many years ago I participated in a Parian exhibition based on mythology. Using recycled materials, I made the above painting about Omphale and Hercules. The text is rewritten below: Ομφαλός. Hercules’ first home was his mother’s body. But once the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art Narratives, Books, People | Tagged Connie, Delphi, Hercules, Joan Didion, Omphale, Omphlos, Rhea, the Center, W. B. Yeats | Leave a comment

Dancing

Posted on March 23, 2022 by Art for Housewives

It was 1926 and in Paris the autumn leaves were falling. For our weekend rendezvous, Hugh and I went to the Folies Bergère to see Josephine Baker dancing in her banana skirt. While she was naughtily dancing with her shadow, … Continue reading →