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Essays on contemporary arts & letters by Alice Gribbin
If others were writing fiery, nonacademic defenses of aesthetics that railed against lazy and platitudinous utilitarian art, I’d be reading that, not writing this. Less weekly, more triannual. Please share with friends, and thank you for reading. I tweet here.
Thank you for being Alice, Alice. I read a review in the NYTimes of Leonardo’s Lady with an Ermine. My experience of that painting was very chthonic. Overwhelmingly so. Was the review being polite by saying “erotic?” Dunno. Noting that Sforza was her “patron”, a toothy ferret was an appropriate ornament/weapon which did not look “small” to me over her open bodice. Robert Hamel