Sex, drugs, and, well, rock and roll wasn’t yet invented when Lizzie Siddal took her place as a Pre-Raphaelite muse. But if there were a Sid and Nancy in Victorian London, it was Lizzie and her rebel painter/poet paramour Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Now, Rossetti didn’t discover her, but he made Lizzie the first supermodel.
Lizzie...
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Viva Kiki of Montparnasse!
By Saskia Vogel
“Viva Bedlam” was the name of the show, and viva indeed. As photographer Rick Mendoza says, “I called it that because Bedlam didn’t go anywhere. We’re keeping it alive by doing what we do.” The Bedlam Mendoza speaks of is not so much the eponymous space, but the about...
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