Peace on earth. Guernica, Pablo Picasso, Madrid, Spain (1937)
I loved that aspect of life in Sarajevo, a city of so many interweaving stories, where you’ll hear bits and pieces from different people about the same incident for years.
Charles Darwin’s study, Downe, Kent. (Photo: 1932)
Excerpt from a list of 35 jobs held by Agnes Martin, The Guggenheim (c. 1980)
1. as a play ground Director
2. as a tennis coach
3. started two successful businesses
4. on a farm — milking
5. three times at the wheat harvest
6. managed cherry pickers
7. for a mining Co. managed Indians horse packing supplies
8. taught three years in country schools
9. as a cashier
10. in a factory
11. in a hamburger stand
12. as a receptionist
13. in a butcher shop
“Domestic Science, Principals and Application; a text-book for public schools” page 322 (1914)
Film still from Henri D’Ursel, “La perle” (1929).