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Leigh Bowery

seeing this is making me think that i saw a greer lankton exhibit when i was really young - is that possible? these dolls in particular are evoking a lot of surreal memories for me. dimly-lit museum memories.

Zandra Rhodes

Regnault initially represented this Italian model as an African woman, but he later enlarged the canvas at the bottom and right and transformed it into a representation of Salomé. She is shown after having danced for her stepfather, Herod Antipas, governor of Judaea. The platter and knife allude to the reward she claimed for her performance: the severed head of John the Baptist.  Regnault was killed during the Franco-Prussian War, just months after this picture was exhibited to great acclaim at the Salon of 1870. For years, the painting was considered a masterpiece of contemporary art. In 1912, when it was announced that it would be sold from a private collection, Baron Henri de Rothschild initiated a campaign to keep it in France. He was unsuccessful; “Salomé” was presented to the Metropolitan by one of the Museum’s trustees in 1916. - See more at: http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/437384?rpp=20&pg=1&ao=on&ft=Henri+Regnault&pos=1#sthash.TOUGXBt7.dpuf

Sayaka Maruyama 

Serge Lutens

Ruth St. Denis in Radha 1908

Pirelli Calendar 1988 | ph. Barry Lategan

Valquire Veljkovic / Tata Christiane: Magical Realism, Chapter 2.

Fong Leng in her studio, around 1974. I should post some of the other women who helped make glamrock possible, actually- loads of them hanging around the fringes as designers, artists, agents, etc.

Penelope Tree by David Bailey (1969)