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A bunch of teen stars like Hailee Steinfeld and Elle Fanning are being hailed as fashion muses. And it's true, they look lovely. But nice as it is to see such good sartorial role-models for the tween set, maybe we should take the focus off them...and let them screw up. More »
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Ruth Ford, an actress who became famous for the salons she held in her Dakota apartment, has died at 98. "My life has been too exciting, too wonderful, to let anything else, and that includes acting, to come first." [NYT] More »
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86-year-old Lucian Freud has a new, 25-year-old muse. Obviously. More »
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Buddy Holly, who died 50 years ago today, wrote 1957's classic "Peggy Sue" about his drummer's girlfriend. Now 68, Peggy Sue Gerron calls it "a privilege, always. I never get tired of it." [BBC] More »
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When Claude Monet's beloved wife and muse Camille died at 32, the artist responded the only way he knew how: a vivid, evocative painting that would hang over his own deathbed 47 years later. [Obit] More »
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Dina Vierny began posing for the sculptor Aristide Maillol as a teenager in order to earn pocket money. More »
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A surgeon has dedicated his life — and house — to "massive tableaus depicting his love for his wife, each showing the couple set in a different era: ancient Greece, for example, or czarist Russia." More »
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Lucien Freud's painting of Sue Tilley, called "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping," has sold for £17.2 million — reportedly the highest payday for a living artist in history. For Kira Cochrane at the Guardian, the portrait brings up a bunch of issues about the relationship of artist to subject, specifically when the artist is male and the "muse" is female. Cochrane references radical feminist artists the Guerilla Girls, who asked on a poster in 1989, "Do women have to be naked to get into the Met Museum?" and found that 85% of the nudes at the Met were women, while only 5% of artists represented in the museum were women. It's one thing to discuss the power dynamics between an artist and a muse with whom he is sexually or romantically involved, but what about women who act merely as models, like Tilley? What are the power dynamics implicit in that relationship? More »
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