Tag: art
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Whistler and Peacock Blue
Saturated Space, September 2015 In the summer and autumn of 1876, visitors to the London home of shipping magnate Frederick Richards Leyland, at 49 Prince’s Gate in Kensington, stopped short when they came to the dining room. There they were met by the sight of a dandyish man, with a shock of white hair, painting on…
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Pablo Bronstein
The Artful Façades of Pablo Bronstein For artist Pablo Bronstein, the avant-garde has become so institutionalized that history seems radical. Architect, June 2014 Several years ago, the artist Pablo Bronstein published a new edition of Horace Walpole’s novel The Castle of Otranto, with a cover he had drawn by hand. Walpole, an 18th-century English aristocrat,…
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