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ABSOLUMENT ! is two years old—my goodness!!!
❥Celebrating 90 writings about art, architecture, design, books, and stories of moving to France. Thank you for absolutely everything!
Oct 24, 2025
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Honeymooning in VENICE!
Ciao punctuations, lots of boating, and the art of turning a dead-end into a piece of magic. We visited the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, steered a boat…
Oct 16, 2024
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Elaine de Kooning Paints a Picture
The selected writings of a cherished Abstract Expressionist painter made a firm mark on the history of art. Sharing excerpts from The Spirit of Abstract…
Jan 24, 2025
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Learning from house museums
A school-like assignment for enjoying historic architecture. Learn about a new-to-you place, discover the identities of the people associated with it…
Aug 20, 2025
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I wrote an essay for The Metropolitan Museum of Art!
Sharing The Met's "From the Vaults" film series and a very special Eames film: Metropolitan Overview.
Jun 18, 2025
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Kelsey Rose
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The Museum of Drawers: famous artists collaborating in miniature
A unique, curatorial art experiment begun in 1970 by Herbert Distel. In its form, it’s a twenty-story haberdashery storage cabinet that Distel…
Apr 2, 2025
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Kelsey Rose
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Calder's "Spirale" sculpture and its best friend, the Eiffel Tower
Imagining 1958 at the Palais de l'UNESCO in Paris, and I'm selling a vintage photograph of it!
Mar 17, 2025
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A January absolute: Synchronicities and Corita Kent
❥ On display at the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles are the photographic artworks of Corita Kent, shown buzzingly in the exhibition Corita Kent…
Jan 6
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ART WRITING vol. 1—Letters between Yayoi Kusama and Georgia O'Keeffe
A 1955 exchange with the admired artist Georgia O'Keeffe changed the trajectory of Yayoi Kusama's life.
Dec 27, 2025
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Kelsey Rose
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The art of wrapping
Not a Christmas-themed post, but instead admiring the best gift-wrappers in the history of art—Christo and Jeanne-Claude!
Dec 13, 2025
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Kelsey Rose
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A January absolute: Synchronicities and Corita Kent
❥ On display at the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles are the photographic artworks of Corita Kent, shown buzzingly in the exhibition Corita Kent…
Jan 6
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Kelsey Rose
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ART WRITING vol. 1—Letters between Yayoi Kusama and Georgia O'Keeffe
A 1955 exchange with the admired artist Georgia O'Keeffe changed the trajectory of Yayoi Kusama's life.
Dec 27, 2025
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Kelsey Rose
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The art of wrapping
Not a Christmas-themed post, but instead admiring the best gift-wrappers in the history of art—Christo and Jeanne-Claude!
Dec 13, 2025
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Kelsey Rose
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An art history lesson from painter Joan Mitchell
The Abstract Expressionist on living and painting in New York City and Paris.
Nov 19, 2025
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Kelsey Rose
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architecture
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Art/design books I bought in Paris—and must-visit bookshops
The art of tying books to specific moments and geographic spots. Featuring Suzanne Duchamp, artist couples, Le Grand Palais, 100 years of Art Deco, and…
Nov 6, 2025
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Kelsey Rose
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ABSOLUMENT ! is two years old—my goodness!!!
❥Celebrating 90 writings about art, architecture, design, books, and stories of moving to France. Thank you for absolutely everything!
Oct 24, 2025
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Kelsey Rose
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Not-Trespassing: The Mackintosh House in Glasgow
The home of designers and artists Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh has been faithfully reconstructed inside of an art gallery…
Oct 8, 2025
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A Hodgepodge! Character homes and modern art book updates
feat. Villa Schöningen, Vienna-esque apartments in Paris, and a new Frank O'Hara biography
Sep 18, 2025
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Bourgine: a Parisian couture shop and sewing collective
Interviewing Bourgine's Caroline and Romane about the brand's most cherished designs, and their historic French influences
Dec 2, 2025
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Kelsey Rose
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SHOP Absolument! Vintage treasures from France that make the most special gifts
A collection of thoughtfully sourced objects that I know the art- and France-loving people in your life would absolutely adore receiving for the…
Nov 25, 2025
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Kelsey Rose
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Art/design books I bought in Paris—and must-visit bookshops
The art of tying books to specific moments and geographic spots. Featuring Suzanne Duchamp, artist couples, Le Grand Palais, 100 years of Art Deco, and…
Nov 6, 2025
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