Sunday, May 17, 2026

Local

William Eggleston
Louisiana
ca. 1971-74
dye transfer print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York


Ancient Egyptian Culture
Flask
9th-10th century AD
molded glass
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Franz Kline
Turin
1960
oil on canvas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Max Klinger
Venus pointing out Psyche to Cupid
1880
etching and aquatint
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New York

William Eggleston
Mississippi
ca. 1971-74
dye transfer print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Ancient Egyptian Culture
Inlay of Face
1540-1070 BC
cast glass
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Franz Kline
New York, N.Y.
1953
oil on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Max Klinger
 Priestesses of Venus 
1880
etching and aquatint
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

William Eggleston
Untitled
ca. 1971-73
dye imbibition print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Ancient Egyptian Culture
Inlay of Leg
1540-1070 BC
cast glass
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Franz Kline
C & O
1958
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Max Klinger
Psyche bathing
1880
etching and aquatint
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

William Eggleston
Memphis
ca. 1965-68
dye transfer print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Ancient Egyptian Culture
Pendant
1st century AD
fusion of mosaic glass tessarae
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Franz Kline
Untitled
1946-48
oil on board
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Max Klinger
Cupid leaving Psyche asleep
1880
etching and aquatint
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

William Eggleston
Memphis
ca. 1965-68
dye transfer print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

I want my manuscript to be photographed, because I feel that my manuscript is alive.  I will transmit life to people if my manuscripts are photographed.  I will recognize the journalists sent up to me for what they are, because I am a physiognomist-God.  I can recognize people by their physiognomies.  I know that people do not feel nervous if they are not guilty of anything.  I will live in big hotels, because I want everyone to see me.  I do not want expensive hotels, because Lloyd Georgians live in expensive hotels.  I will go into a simple hotel if my wife lets me.  I will be afraid for myself if my wife says that she cannot live in a poor hotel.  I will resort to cunning in order to avoid getting into a big, expensive hotel.  I prefer to live in an apartment.  I will take an apartment if I notice that I am not liked.  I will show them all how angry I can be.  

– from The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky, written in Russian in 1919, translated by Kyril FitzLyon and edited by Joan Acocella (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999)