When you become a muse, do you give up agency? Or is there something empowering about being one? Tatum Dooley talks to filmmaker Nadia Litz about muses, maestros, power, and lingerie.
Is Being a Muse Ever Empowering?
Get to Know the Artist Dora Maar, Who Wasn’t Just Picasso’s Muse
In celebration of the release of a new book of photos by Dora Maar, here are four interesting things you should know about her life, and her complicated relationship with Picasso. By Kristen Cochrane. Main image: Dora Maar by Man Ray, 1936. Continue reading “Get to Know the Artist Dora Maar, Who Wasn’t Just Picasso’s Muse”
Leonard Cohen and Me: The Anti-Muse Manifesto
Male artists have long seen women as muses—and sometimes as little else. Here, Sophia Larigakis details how she love-hate identifies with both Leonard Cohen and his muses, and the problems with the muse trope. Continue reading “Leonard Cohen and Me: The Anti-Muse Manifesto”