May 11, 2005

• Art History

  Reuters – “Joe Grant, a legendary Disney
  artist who designed the Queen/Witch in ‘Snow White and the Seven
  Dwarfs,’ died of a heart attack while doing what he loved most,
  drawing, the Walt Disney Co. said Monday.

  Grant, 96, died at his home in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale last Friday while sitting at his drawing board.”

  “With a little effort, anything can be
  shown to connect with anything else:
  existence is infinitely cross-referenced.”

  – Opening sentence of
  Martha Cooley’s The Archivist

  From Log24 last Friday,
  a Greek cross:

  
  

  Click on picture for details.
   
  And from Sunday, May 1
  (Orthodox Easter):
  

  Rosalind Krauss,

  
  

  Columbia University’s
  Meyer Schapiro Professor
  of Modern Art and Theory:

  “There is no painter in the West
  who can be unaware of
  the symbolic
  power of
  the cruciform shape¹
  and the Pandora’s box

  
  
  

  of spiritual
  reference²
  that is opened
  once one uses it.”
  

  
  Click on pictures for details.
  Related material:
  Nine is a Vine³.

  ^{1, 2, 3} Today’s birthdays:

  ¹ Natasha Richardson, born 11 May 1963,
     Jedi wife and costar of Nell

  ² Martha Quinn, born 11 May 1959,
     MTV wit

  ³ Frances Fisher, born 11 May 1952,
     dazzling redhead

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