Curated Insanity

ph Laura Gilpin

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/576560

John William Waterhouse (1849 – 1917)

Cate Blanchett photographed by Warwick Saint, 2000

That’s the irony and the tragedy of the story. Hamlet knows his tropes and actively tries to avoid them, and the tropes get him anyway. It’s inevitable, the tropes are hungry.

if hamlet swapped places with othello he wouldn’t be duped by any of iago’s shit, he’d sit down & have a good think & actually examine the facts before taking action. meanwhile in denmark, othello would have killed claudius before act 2 could even start. but instead nope, they’re both in situations where their greatest strengths are totally useless and now we’ve got all these bodies to bury.

I love this post.

I believe the artist is Katy Doughty.  

medieval artist #1: hey brother gaius i’m illuminating a manuscript right now and i need your opinion on something medieval artist #2: sure thing brother lucius medieval artist #1: so i’m supposed to be adding a handax to this, can you tell me if i got it right medieval artist #2: okay i’ll take a look medieval artist #2: medieval artist #1: medieval artist #2: i mean you’re not wrong

Ginger Rogers in, “Swing Time” (1936)

Bust of Pallas.  Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Venice.

gene kelly & fred astaire in ziegfeld follies (1945)

HILMA AF KLINT, Series VIII, Picture of the Starting Point, 1920.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in a letter to Edmund Wilson, 1919 / in a letter to Maxwell Perkins, 1921 / in The New Yorker, 1926 / in a letter to Dr. Oscar Forel, 1930 /  in a letter to Dr. Mildred Squires, 1932 / in a letter to Maxwell Perkins, 1933 / in The Crack-Up, 1936

Visitor standing before the Parthenon, 15 April 1911

not for riches but for love medieval posie ring

venice, 1962

Oh, mother, mother! What have you done? ↳ Tom Hiddleston and Deborah Findlay in Coriolanus at Donmar Warehouse (2014)

Christian Soriano is bae

I remember the season Christian was in. And he had a problem (because he was fresh out of fashion school) with understanding how to dress bigger women. And Tim Gunn, who has always been a proponent of needing to design fashion for more natural sizes, helped him to get out of that mind set by planting the seed. That growth we see is from this amazing fashion teacher! 

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