Peggy Guggenheim Before the Museum
In Venice, Peggy Guggenheim made her home a place where art and everyday life met. By Letícia Lima Laurino In 1958, Nino Migliori photographd Peggy Guggenheim at her Venetian home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni. The silver headboard created by Alexander Calder was part of her bed, alongside the sheets and the collector’s belongings. Recalling the […]
Painting the World Before It Changed
The British traveler crossed continents to paint plants where they grew, creating a visual archive of nineteenth-century landscapes now held at Kew Gardens. By Letícia Lima Laurino At the Marianne North Gallery in Kew Gardens, the walls disappear beneath hundreds of paintings displayed with barely any space between them. Forests, mountains, temples, rivers, birds among […]