
Matthew Omolesky
Just as there are fundamental laws of nature, among which can be counted the laws of conservation of energy, mass,…
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously…
У мене вдома непрошені гості — Я їм замість хліба дам каміння і кості, В горнятка налию болота з калюжі,…
What do we possess today as “art”? A faked music, filled with artificial noisiness of massed instruments; a failed painting,…
When tears flow, they wipe them with a handkerchief, When blood flows, they hurry with their sponges, But when the…
Few publicly displayed artistic masterpieces languish in more profound obscurity than “Rakuchū rakugai-zu,” or “Scenes in and around the Capital,”…
Weit offen die Totenkammern sind Und schön bemalt vom Sonnenschein… Wide open are the chambers of the dead And beautifully…
Few might have realized it at the time, but the year 1845 was significant, indeed seminal, in the history of…
October 30, 1992. The dusk of evening has fallen over the San Francisco peninsula, and a modest crowd is filing…
I It is July 1, 1899, and Julie Manet is navigating the crooked streets and alleys of Paris’ disreputably bohemian…