HOME W THURSTON, 1988

…we were nowheresville… Thurston looking through old issues of his fan zine ‘Killer’. And here’s Madonna on the cover, taken by Richard Kern, before she was a well known chanteuse. Kim’s Nivea cream and make up. Kim’s Black Flag earrings worn in the famous Ciccone Youth video. Sweet Face 1988 NYC – sandwiched between Chinatown [...]

TOM MARTHA BUNNY

I nearly tumbled over when I saw these illustrations today. Bunnies are my spirit animal, mountains are my spirit terrain, and everything else pictured are some of my favorite things—winter time, wool mittens, rainbows, teepees, vessels, cabbage, rivers, home. Under the pseudonym Tom Seidmann-Freud—often shortened to just “Tom”—Sigmund Freud’s eccentric niece Martha illustrated a series of [...]

SKULLS & FEATHERS

Skulls & feathers, togethers. First made in Virgina by Pamunkey tribe. Second and third made in Peru with parrot feathers. via Smithsonian

HONORÉ DESMOND SHARRER

A fireman’s wife, dogs, and boys. Lovely photographs taped to the pages of Honoré’s notebooks and used for reference in her paintings. Archives of American Art presents a tiny exhibition titled, Little Pictures, Big Lives—now on view in D.C. or via Flickr. See all HDS photographs featured in the exhibition here.

KATHERINE LANE WEEMS

Pics of puppies and gal pals from Katherine Lane Weems scrapbook, 1965-1968. She looks like a fun lovin’ kinda lady—modeling her bathrobe, hosting sleepovers, having a drink in leopard print. And that wicked view of Central Park from her apartment—totally JEALS, Katherine! KLW was a sculptor, most famous for her work of realistic portrayals of [...]

SS ANGORA

Oh dear. I was drawn in by the rabbits and didn’t read the doomed title until after I inserted all the images—Angora: Rabbit Raising in Nazi Concentration Camps The Angora rabbit project was an SS-administered program to breed rabbits for their soft, warm fur, one use of which was to line the jackets of Luftwaffe [...]

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