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Secret Satan, 2022
Here in Berlin the first snows have been and gone, the first Advent candle is lit and the kitchen smells like Plätzchen. Into this wholesome scene strides a familiar hoofed figure, laden with a sack...
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Summer* reading list
You didn’t see me. I’m just going to leave these ten book selections here, but keep it to yourself. If you tell anybody they’ll be like “I don’t know what you think you saw, because James only does...
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Amazon in her prime
Growing up in Australia, Halloween was something I only knew about from American movies rather than a matter of lived experience. As an adult I happened to be in New York at the end of October one...
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Romaine Brooks: A Life
Happy 2016! It’s usually about this point in the new year that I offer a rundown of interesting books appearing in the coming months. That’s up soon, but before that I wanted to look at a title which...
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So near…
Another postcard from Naples: here we’re looking across the bay to Capri. A place of outsized significance in the atlas of Strange Flowers, it is the island where Evan Morgan encountered Denham Fouts,...
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Wild hearts in wartime
Barney and Romaine Brooks in Florence (from Wild Heart, by Suzanne Rodriguez) The writer/saloniste Natalie Clifford Barney and her early 20th century Left Bank circle are attracting more attention than...
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Grey eminence
Self portrait Once you start playing “Six Degrees of Natalie Clifford Barney” you soon encounter most of the interesting writers and artists active in Paris in the first half of the 20th century, who...
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Romaine Brooks | portraits
It’s not that Romaine Brooks’ portraits didn’t, as Truman Capote put it, represent “the all-time ultimate gallery of all the famous dykes from 1880 to 1935 or thereabouts”. They did, but there was a...
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Wild hearts at midnight
It’s that time of the year again, when costumed apparitions turn society on its head, strange creatures emerge from the undergrowth, and the most diffident wallflower can blossom into a glamorous...
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Dress-down Friday: Romaine Brooks
For rigorous elegance and fuss-free chic you really can’t go past Left Bank Lesbohemia*. Case in point: American painter Romaine Brooks, who died on this day in 1970. She was just one of an amazing...
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Circles: Natalie Clifford Barney
Brooks & Barney Well…this was inevitable, wasn’t it? Once the idea of mapping connections between writers, artists and undefinable members of semi-forgotten scenes was in the air, it was a given...
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The Other Amazon
Art historian Kerrin Meis recently gave a lecture on Paris-based painter Romaine Brooks, long overshadowed by her charismatic lover. I quote from the lecture introduction, largely because it contains...
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Grey eminence (repost)
From December 2009, the troubled life and work of an undervalued portraitist. You can find a different side to her art here, and explore her long, difficult relationship with Natalie Barney here. •...
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Romaine Brooks | drawings
Anyone who knows Romaine Brooks‘ work solely through her portraits may well be surprised by these drawings, all of which were executed in 1930. Where the portraits looked for some reflection of the...
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Salon queen
Natalie Clifford Barney was born in 1876 into a Henry James-esque world of East Coast privilege and social anxiety. The intense amorous liaisons and illustrious literary connections which she...
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A Casati picture gallery
So after yesterday’s look at Luisa Casati’s heirs and ancestors, today a brisk stroll through various representations of her, most of them commissioned by the marchesa herself. Actually there was a...
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A Casati family tree
One of the interesting things about writing this blog – apart from finding new candidates, as yesterday – has been how it reveals connections between apparently disparate subjects. Numerous internal...
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Grey eminence
Self portrait Once you start playing “Six Degrees of Natalie Clifford Barney” you soon encounter most of the interesting writers and artists active in Paris in the first half of the 20th century, who...
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