Monthly Archives: July 2011

Dame à la robe blanche (Woman in White), 1946

Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954) Des Moines Art Center

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Plenoma 5

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Corn Cob Chandelier for Iowa Corn Room

Grant Wood, 1925-26 Cedar Rapids Museum of Art

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Who You Gonna Call?

from The Witchcraft of Salem Village by Shirley Jackson Illustrated by Lili Rethi

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Pamap 3

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Jupiter and Antiope

WATTEAU, Jean-Antoine 1715-16 Oil on canvas, 73 x 107 cm (oval) Musée du Louvre, Paris

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Girl, Wanted: The Chase For Sarah Pender, Steve Miller, Berkley, $7.99.

  The femme fatale is a stock figure in our culture, enough of a cliche that a culture luminary like Britney Spears pasted the phrase on her latest piece of product. Some feminist scholars maintain that the concept itself is … Continue reading

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An Old Borders

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Want To See 2

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Shining Example

Betty and Veronica

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