Katya ReimannMar 4, 20223 minLives & PlacesSoviet Postcard Art — Anna Ostapivna Gorobievskaya (А.О. Горобийскауа)For the last few years, I have become increasingly passionate about the postcard art of the USSR, and increasingly interested in the...
Katya ReimannFeb 17, 202210 minArt I LoveMay Howard Jackson -- Katya's Biography Project, as of 2022May Howard Jackson (September 7, 1877 – 1931) was an African American sculptor and artist. She was known as "one of the first black...
Katya ReimannFeb 16, 20223 minArt I LoveKatya's Biography Project, 2022When, in 1986, I signed up for my required Literature Seminar in "English Literary Biography," I had no idea what I was letting myself in...
Katya ReimannFeb 26, 20202 minArt I LoveSargent & Tonks: A Favorite Artist, & a Long FriendshipOne of my favorite artists is John Singer Sargent, who is best known, perhaps, for his society paintings. "Portrait of Madame X,"...
Time & placeSometimes it's about when you read some piece of writing that it becomes totemic. Sometimes it's just the writing. "The past," he...
Life BookshelfIt's May. I've written these words before: 'I spend a lot of time thinking about books, writing, and what it means for an artist to have...
What mighty fraud diverts our souls from deeds of honor? No doubt I have made errors in transliteration, but here is a lovely piece by the Italian poet Petronilla Paolini Massimi (1663-1728), as...