“Isn’t the art scene today revolting?” Andy Warhol asked Cecil Beaton. “I wish I could find a way of making it worse.” He did ... more »
John Keats, cad. While wooing Fanny Brawne, he “warmed with” a shady lady, Mrs. Jones ... more »
Van Gogh: “Degas’s painting is virile and impersonal precisely because he has resigned himself to being personally no more than a little notary” ... more »