

Gilded Lilith
It’s a terrible habit. I can’t sleep reading in bed. But I do I fall asleep watching TV. I love watching re-reruns of Law & Order: SVU, or Modern Family. In one episode of Modern Family in season 2 about Valentine’s Day, Gloria Pritchett portrayed by the beautiful and equally funny Sofia Vergara, hysterically says to her husband who drives her crazy, “I am the second wife Jay, why do you treat me like I’m the first?” And I perked up in bed. I sometimes wondered something simi


The Naked Truth
Goya's La Maja desnuda (The Naked Maja), c. 1798-1805, and, La Maja vestida (The Clothed Maja), c. 1798-1805. (from Goya "To every story there belongs another", by Werner Hofmann) Last week after I read Charles Saatchi’s masterpieces: how Goya rewrote the rule book of the female nude in The Telegraph, I started thinking about Goya’s The Naked Maja which, together with Goya’s The Clothed Maja is in the Prado, Madrid. I was also reminded of Danny Boyle’s 2013 movie Trance where