i'm glad that she followed her dreams

17 year old Bianca Passarge of Hamburg dresses up as a cat, complete with furry tail and dances on wine bottles, June 1958. Her performance was based on a dream and she practiced for eight hours every day in order to perfect her dance. Photo: Carlo Polito/BIPs/Getty Images

I've seen the photo in a dozen places recently, but it still bewilders me. When i found that her performance was based on a dream, it made perfect sense, but now instead of being mildly amused, i'm in awe of her vision.

There doesn't seem to be anything more on Bianca Passarge on the web that i can find.

Rimbaud In New York

David Wojnarowicz might have made a blip on my consciousness before, and i know that i've seen Rimbaud In New York before somewhere, but it's a hell of a lot funnier to me now that i've read Vila-Matas' Bartleby & Co.

damnatio memoriae

Lucrezia Borgia's daddy was such an awful pope, that they destroyed art containing his image. Portions of a fresco might have survived though. Inquisitions are cool, but decadent philandering and indulgence means destroying art? Bastards!

spirals & Çatalhöyük migration

Only 5% of Çatalhöyük has been excavated? I had no idea it was so little. I like this research hoping to uncover human migration routes via the characteristic art motif of the settlement.

ongoing controversy of the Bruno Schulz frescoes

The controversy about the frescoes painted by Bruno Schulz being spirited away to Israel from a private apartment has me a little confused. The removal itself is old news, but there are a couple of columns that i have noticed debating the issue, one pro, one con.