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Marco Rosin is a little nervous about uprooting the lady of the house. In this case, he's not referring to the legendary art patroness Peggy Guggenheim, whose body lies buried next to those of her beloved Lhasa Apsos-including Cappuccino, Peacock and Sir Herbert-in the garden of her Venice palazzetto. Instead, on this warm June afternoon, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection registrar's charge is Alberto Giacometti's 1.5-m bronze Standing Woman, 1947, whose elegantly elongated frame appears like an apparition a few meters from Guggenheim's grave, where it usually guards the benefactress' Byzantine garden seat...
...Marjane, or Marji in her youth, is a bright, somewhat mouthy kid with a restless imagination and the twin gifts of self-criticism and resilience; she can be knocked down, but never counts herself out. Among her relatives are some whose resistance to the Peacock Throne had led to their confinement and torture. When the clerics take over, Marji shows her defiance in ways both adolescent and forthright. She'll buy an Iron Maiden CD on the black market, and in school she tells her black-scarved teacher, "We've gone from 3,000 [political] prisoners under the Shah...
...terminating unwanted pregnancy. Afterwards I walk to Chinatown, where merchants hawk watermelons, pearls, watches and glutinous rice cakes. Padyaks, or pedicabs, painted with names like Raymond and Alfonso are lined up for action, while a jeepney called Jeremiah 616 whizzes by in an eye-catching streak of fuchsia and peacock blue...
...influence is apparent in the clear tones and precision of these works, but one can also perceive the artists’ own variations from Ruskin’s style.The centerpiece, and perhaps the best work, of the show is Moore’s “Peacock Feather” (c. 1879-82), which hangs side-by-side with Ruskin’s “Study of a Magnified Pheasant’s Feather” (August 27, 1879). Moore was perhaps the most ardent of Ruskin’s followers, and his works display levels of patience...
...amazing - and so amazingly well preserved - that you could stay in a hut and be happy. But how much better to return, after a hard day communing with history, to a fabulous Ayurvedic massage, a herbal bath infused with petals, a delicious meal - and the sight of a peacock dancing, alone, in the dusk. www.viluyana.com