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In the past, during the Renaissance in Italy for example, when the church commissioned artists, the general populace was comfortable with art because they were comfortable with religion. Artists were commissioned by God, so art was backed up by a divine and formulated spirituality. At the time, God was the highest-paying sponsor. Now that God has been supplanted by things like Coca-Cola and panty hose, art has found new sponsors with no ideology except sales. Commercial art usually expresses nothing more divine than the product it's advertising. Only gallery art has remained pure; it flowers as its own religion and exists on its own. No wonder it must have its own clique. No wonder it's misunderstood. No wonder the average citizen could care less.

Cookie Mueller, Art and About

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Nan Goldin, Cookie Mueller (full-ish book)

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Patti Smith by Robert Mapplethorpe N.Y.C 1972 Original Polaroid Montage Esteban Private Collection

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Margaret Hamilton in some behind-the-scenes home movies. Note that her hair and makeup are slightly different from what appear in the film; it’s the earlier Richard Thorpe conception of the Wicked Witch of the West.

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John Waters, Fellini's 8 1/2, 2014 (White pine, pressed letters, wood stain and paint, 26,4 × 259,1 × 26,4 cm/10 3/8 × 102 × 10 3/8 inches). From the Beverly Hills John — John Waters’ first ever exhibition in London (Sprüth Magers, July 1–August 15, 2015), a ‟fresh set of affectionate barbs about the movie biz.” © John Waters/Sprüth Magers

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Marta Pan inside her sculpture ‘Equilibre’ (1957) ph. Gérard Ifert

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COOKIE MUELLER | 1981 PHOTOGRAPHY: TOBI SEFTEL

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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras, 2022)    

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Thinking of a glamurous time by Ellen Von Unwerth on Vogue Italia apr 2012

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as a DOLL by Steven Meisel on Vogue Italia feb 1993

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Veruschka on Vogue America

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Beauty bulletin on Vogue America jun 1965

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2017 chloe sevigny by nan goldin

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“gravestone in pet cemetery, lisbon” (1998) by nan goldin

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Lobby card for The Tale Of Genji (Genji Monogatari, 源氏物語), 1951, directed by Kozaburo Yoshimura (吉村公三郎) and starring Machiko Kyo (京マチ子).

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