Tickles My Fancy

Past/Present

July 19, 2010
By Saskia Vogel

The long road winds up well. Granta hires new staff 30.06.10 | Victoria Gallagher Granta Books and magazine have appointed new members of staff in the publicity departments. Kelly Pike will be joining Granta Books and Portobello Books as publicity manager on 12th July. She was previously a publicity manager at Saqi and Telegram Books...
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Zocalo: The Union of Their Dreams

April 27, 2010
By Saskia Vogel
Zocalo: The Union of Their Dreams

Written at a time when everyone knows what it means to construct a public image, Miriam Pawel’s Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez’s Farm Worker Movement revisits the story of an iconic movement with an even more iconic leader. But instead of a “Chavez and Goliath” story, Pawel shows...
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Jenny Saville at the Gagosian

April 20, 2010
By Saskia Vogel
Jenny Saville at the Gagosian

Buoyant with Ruinart’s dry bubbles, good company on the Dunhill patio, and smiling because I could answer “Yes” to Lord Saatchi’s three questions (Are you working toward something you believe in? Is it going well? Do at least you think it’s important?), I pressed my face against the window of the Gagosian. Inside the...
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Sunday

April 20, 2010
By Saskia Vogel
Sunday

From Lucy Fox-Bohan
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Lucy Fox-Bohan is Brilliant

March 6, 2010
By Saskia Vogel
Lucy Fox-Bohan is Brilliant

And she flatters me endlessly by putting me in view of her lens. Lucy’s sensuous minimalism is sublime. Enjoy her at http://coppertantobacco.blogspot.com/ For my California brethren: London can have blue skies, too.
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LA Love

November 11, 2008
By Saskia Vogel
LA Love

I got nostalgic for the Old Chola on the 101/110.
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Ferdinand Hodler

October 13, 2008
By Saskia Vogel
Ferdinand Hodler

Ferdinand Hodler: Die Nacht. 1889-1890, Öl auf Leinwand, ...
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Spam Language

August 29, 2008
By Saskia Vogel

lighght When deleting the spam that inevitably comes through as comments, I am terribly amused by what is written. Check out some of these fantastic words: pontificious roundfish peromelous basiophthalmous unbeholdable quenchable transcension gangetic The are my new poetry. In the tradition of lighght ?
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