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Lament of Icarus

The paramours of courtesans
Are well and satisfied, content.
But as for me my limbs are rent
Because I clasped the clouds as mine.

I owe it to the peerless stars
Which flame in the remotest sky
That I see only with spent eyes
Remembered suns I knew before.

In vain I had at heart to find
The center and the end of space.
Beneath some burning, unknown gaze
I feel my very wings unpinned

And, burned because I beauty loved,
I shall not know the highest bliss,
And give my name to the abyss
Which waits to claim me as its own.

~Charles Baudelaire

Georgia O’Keeffe
American, 1887-1986

Road - Mesa with Mist, 1961, artic.edu (queue)

Oil on canvas
50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)

Bequest of Paul and Gabriella Rosenbaum, 2002.76
© 2013 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Georgia O’Keeffe
American, 1887-1986

It Was Yellow and Pink III, 1960, artic.edu (queue)

Oil on canvas
101.6 x 76.2 cm (40 x 30 in.)

Alfred Stieglitz Collection, bequest of Georgia O’Keeffe, 1987.250.2
© The Art Institute of Chicago

Georgia O’Keeffe
American, 1887-1986

Black Cross, New Mexico, 1929 (queue)

Oil on canvas
99.1 x 76.2 cm (39 x 30 in.)

Art Institute Purchase Fund, 1943.95
© The Art Institute of Chicago

Black Abstraction, 1927 (queue)

Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe
American, 1887-1986

The Shelton with Sunspots, N.Y., 1926, artic.edu (queue)

Oil on canvas
123.2 x 76.8 cm (48 1/2 x 30 1/4 in.)
Signed, titled, and dated on label on reverse

Gift of Leigh B. Block, 1985.206
© 2013 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Georgia O’Keeffe
American, 1887-1986

Spring, 1923-24, artic.edu (queue)

Oil on canvas
45.7 x 35.4 cm (18 x 14 in.)

Bequest of Paul and Gabriella Rosenbaum, 2002.72
© 2013 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Kara Wilkes

Alonzo King Lines Ballet (queue-Friday)

Lines Ballet - Alonzo King  (queue)

Dancers Corey Scott-Gilbert and Meredith Webster

David Ellingsen HERE

David Ellingsen HERE

 David Ellingsen  HERE

David Ellingsen HERE

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As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

~Lao Tzu