Juliet Bellow

I started eating lunch today at 10:45. I wonder when lunch is just going to become breakfast, and breakfast will be a midnight snack.

This is why I absolutely love going to dance studies conferences! Highly recommended

The Buddhist monks and @katya-zamo.bsky.social are coming to my university in a span of two weeks and i have to miss both of these religious experiences

But can I have people dressed as plants to accompany me? #lifegoals

Wow! I didn’t know this work. I was curious about when it was painted, because of course it was too hot a subject for public consumption for a decade or two. It looks like he painted this in 1911, which is so interesting—by then, I guess the republicans were not afraid of reminders of the Commune?

HoRRRRRendous

100%. Everyone who has worked in French archives has experienced a version of this

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Exhibition Lecture This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. This lecture explores how Rodin created the same tactile, intimate viewing experience...

If youll be in NYC on January 28, come hear me talk about Rodin at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, in conjunction with their fascinating exhibition “Rodin’s Egypt”: isaw.nyu.edu/events/cares...

On what planet can you call yourself a feminist and openly denigrate “the feminine”? (Only on the planet New York Times, apparently, where up is down)

Looking forward to it!

I’m guessing that Caspar David Friedrich’s “Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog” is the all time winner with 34 book covers: www.goodreads.com/list/show/76...

If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard that….

“Rodin’s Dancers: Art and Performance in Belle Époque Paris” is in my office and can now be in yours, too! (DM me for discount code.) yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

You have GOT to be kidding me

First sighting of my book in the wild! (It’s the one with the bright yellow binding.)

Their connections to the fascist party might have had something to do with it

Crowded protest march on a London street

I saw some good signs in DC today, but none will ever beat the one I saw on January 21, 2017 in London, here at center: “Quite annoyed”

I like being asked to peer review articles…but I really don’t like receiving review requests out of the blue, on topics totally unrelated to my research, that require me to create a user ID and log into a system I’ve never used just to decline.

It’s going to be a long semester

How about the working families who live in the District of Columbia? Are we not being punished?

Call your senators, please! We would if we had any!

In all the ways, for all the reasons

So sorry to hear this!

This is so common, and so outrageous!

Abstracted depiction of a human body in bright colors

I love those Archipenkos too! Especially the one with the glass skirt.

“It’s just Rickey being Rickey.”

Abstracted drawing of a Loïe Fuller-like dancer in bright pink and electric yellow.

I have a cover design! My book “Rodin’s Dancers: Art and Performance in Belle Époque Paris” will be published in June 2025 by @yalebooks.bsky.social

Modernism on Stage: The Ballets Russes and the Parisian Avant-Garde Modernism on Stage restores Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes to its central role in the Parisian art world of the 1910s and 1920s. During those years, the Ballets Russes’ stage served as a dynamic for...

Thanks! So glad to know that this is of interest. I’ll be revisiting and extending what I have said about their designs for the Ballets Russes: www.routledge.com/Modernism-on...

"Dancing an Orphist 'Egypt': The Delaunays and Artistic Imperialism" | The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation Juliet Bellow, PhD, delivers the fourteenth annual Robert Rosenblum Lecture on the occasion of Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930.

Thrilled to be giving the Fourteenth Annual Robert Rosenblum lecture on February 26 at the Guggenheim Museum in conjunction with “Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910-1930.”
www.guggenheim.org/event/dancin...