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Garage Inferno, Florence, Italy

June 26, 2009 By Gretchen Williams '14

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Photo by Alex Bertland, 2009

Categories: Places
Tagged with: 2009, Florence, Humor, Inferno, Italy

Yinka Shonibare, Photographer

June 22, 2009 By Gretchen Williams '14

yinka-shonibare-photographer“In his Victorian house in the East End here Yinka Shonibare, the British-Nigerian conceptual artist, perched on an exercise ball at the wooden table in his book-crammed study, sipping peppermint tea and examining a shipment of faux oysters on the half shell.
A stationary hand cycle sat beside him, an electric wheelchair across from him. One of Bob and Roberta Smith’s slogan paintings, ‘Duchamp stinks like a homeless person,’ hung above him, and a tuna on toast prepared by his housekeeper was sandwiched between a vase of yellow tulips and a stack of Dante volumes: Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. . .
On that gray May day in the East End, Mr. Shonibare was trying to decompress after directing a weeklong photo shoot that involved 25 live snakes, 14 nude models, 6 pigs and 2 lamb’s heads. Inspired by Dante, Arthur Miller, Gustav Dore’ and the financial crisis, the shoot was a work in progress, ‘Willy Loman: The Rise and Fall,’ which seeks to depict what happens after the death of the salesman. (Hint: It’s hellish.)” [. . .]    –Deborah Sontag, The New York Times, June 17, 2009

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2009, Nigeria, Photography, United Kingdom

Nike Advertisement (1983)

September 22, 2006 By Gretchen Williams '14

This Nike ad from a 1983 magazine shows Dante and Virgil in the Infernal circle of the Simonists, browsing for shoes.

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Contributed by Dennis Looney

Categories: Consumer Goods
Tagged with: 1983, Advertisements, Beaverton, Circles of Hell, Inferno, Magazines, Nike, Oregon, Shoes

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