American Poetry

“we do not admire/

what we cannot understand”/

Writeth the poet. 

Marianne Moore (1887-1972), by Van Vechten, 1948.

Prevalence of Ritual

"Enchanter in time"/

Exploring art's  linkages/

A true conjure man.

Romare Bearden (1911-1988), by Van Vechten, 1944.

A Life in Art

Youthful flirtations/
Surrealist provocateur/
“Persistence” of art. 

Salvador Dali (1904-1989), by Van Vechten, 1934.

Fine Arts Week

Her eclecticism/
In surrealist art and life/
Was not artifice. 

Leonor Fini (1907-1996), by Van Vechten, 1936.

 Parques Hotel, ca. 1960s. Lithograph.

Vote...That's All.

We vote our conscience/

And because we know truly/

That he’s got our back.

Polls open 6:00 am - 8:00 pm. Vote at your regular polling place.
 

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

She wrought in great prose/
The lonely vicissitudes/
Of isolatoes.

Carson McCullers (1917-1967), by Van Vechten, 1959.

 

Scholar of Dance

Trini-born genius/

Interpreting black culture/

Through dance and with love. 

Pearl Primus(1919-1994) by Van Vechten, 1943.