Arthur Bruso

This small box is my interpretation of that final stage of success where the material in the alchemical flask has crystallized out of the flame into the “nature of the salamander” or to have become unaffected to further distillation, making it ready to become the Philosopher’s Stone. The small toy salamander is hovering over reddening (pink) material at the base of the box. It is held in place by the downward pointing stopper of the flask. The flask itself is represented by a

This painting is deliberately planned to look partly finished with the under drawing exposed. Picasso deftly balances the painted part with the drawn part, while placing the emphasis on the portrait with the lighter grey halo around the sitters face. The work is also a showcase for Picasso’s drawing skills.

In the passage, Cocteau is managing a fairly coherent and irreverent outline of the play he has in mind. While the brief lines he writes are impertinent and charming, he has taken several artistic liberties with the accepted narrative of the myth.

This stele is more than a depiction of ancient Egyptian upper-class domesticity. It is an assurance that the entombed Intef will be provided for and honored for his eternity in the afterlife as he was during his earthly life. It has been sanctified by the God King, activated by the lector priest, and placed in public on the wall of the Intef’s tomb for all who pass by to see and to understand how important he was and venerated he is. In this prominent position the stele will

An exhibition in celebration of the publication ofA Slant of Shadow by Arthur Bruso

Black holes have long held a fascination for me. The idea that all matter is going to be spiraling down a massive, insatiable hole