~The discourses spun in the earliest lectures at the French Academy relocated art-making’s labor onto an intellectual plane. Eighteenth-century amateurs prized drawings as objects of expression; the medium’s inclusion in the Salon, and its resulting...

~Eros is a playful god who, as any unrequited lover knows, on occasion performs the more sinister role of devil’s advocate. In the worst scenarios, his mischievous intrusions leave men and women paralyzed, star-struck, even star-crossed. In antiquity, his bonds of love were...