Tag Archives: Salka Viertel

bizarre love triangles : black moon rising

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Dave

Booted out of Paradise? Lilith as the first mistress and well-spring of promiscuity, both real and imagined? There has always been some perplexing inconsistencies in the Old Testament; a kind of lost narrative between the Greek Septuagint, the Dead Sea … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andrew Samuels, Anita Sarkeesian, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dead Sea Scrolls, frank dicksee, Gershom Scholem, Greta Garbo, J.W. Waterhouse, john collier lilith, john collier painter, John Keats, John William Waterhouse, joseph heath, judith plastow, louis ginzberg, Madonna, michael walzer, perle besserman, rabbi jill hammer, rebecca honig friedman, Rick Salutin, Salka Viertel, thomas frank the baffler | Leave a comment

GYPSY QUEENS & ALCHEMY KINGS

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Dave

One was quite homely and unfeminine, and the other a beauty.Queen Christina of Sweden and Greta Garbo. Yet their destinies crossed into a fusion of karmic proportions that continues to invite question and pique curiosity. For both, the determination to … Continue reading →