Somehow, gremlins (or hackers?) have caused the original version of this post, published early yesterday, to vanish. So, for the record, I’ll summarize what I then wrote.
The headline refers to the de Kooning painting behind me (“Seated Woman,” c. 1940, Philadelphia Museum of Art), a portrait of Elaine Fried, to become Mrs. de Kooning three years later.
The “changes” mentioned in the headline refer, in part, to my new CultureGrrl logo-photo, above (and in my middle column), which I’m gratefully using, courtesy of photojournalist Jill Krementz (of A Very Young Dancer and A Very Old Art Critic fame). She had included the above image in her report for New York Social Diary on MoMA’s de Kooning retrospective. If you scroll down to the bottom of that report, you can see both the photo and my brief comment about the show, which she quoted. (I’ll have more to say later.)
The other changes referred to in the headline involve my blogroll: I’ve added Art Unwashed, the site for visual arts criticism and investigative reporting by Laura Gilbert (who recently left ArtInfo to set out on her own). And I’ve also added Slipped Disc by my fellow ArtsJournal blogger, the frighteningly prolific Norman Lebrecht, who has become the go-to source for breaking news and pointed views on the classical music world.
I also warmly thanked CultureGrrl Repeat Donor 175 from Cisternino, Italy, and Newcastle, England, and CultureGrrl Donor 176 from New York City. And I concluded with a plug for future donations and BlogAds, to encourage me to keep CultureGrrl going during the new art season.