September | 2015 |

karma row: vintage street sale

This entry was posted in Chatty Cathy Fashion Matters Going Going Gone Just Do It! Karma Row New York, NY and tagged From the Ruins... red moon romanlovesgigi on Etsy on September 26, 2015 by janeharr.

I just did a street-trunk sale for my Etsy shop, romanlovesgigi, selling a buttload of mostly clothes, some hung on a rack, others in large apple baskets, and loved it! This gorgeous Fall weather didn’t hurt. There were shoes; a couple of tables I’m getting rid of, one small lucite table with a curved edge, […]

artschmart: olympia + iris

This entry was posted in Artschmart Culture Vulture Movie Night and tagged Manet Olympia Paul Scrader Taxi Driver on September 3, 2015 by janeharr.

It occurred to me that this image/still of Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver, 1976, did for the 20th century what Manet’s Olympia, 1863, did for the 19th: confront society with its ultimate sham-muse; the idealized whore. Or courtesan no-more. Manet did it by attacking art history’s tradition of the reclining nude, and showing what a sham all […]