Sunday, December 6, 2015

memo to Pegeen



O, Pegeen, I’m sorrowed to hear that your husband was supposed to save you from suicide, but didn’t show up in time. Maybe, Sylvia Plath had a similar expectation.

Men!

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict” is delicious, if you can forget that, by now, the art is cliché. The art was regarded as worthless at the time! Peggy Guggenheim was an idiosyncratic savant, a naïve existentialist before Paris existentialism. She was living outsider art before it keynoted the mid-century.