'Room of Their Own': Mills College Art Museum Nov 20, 2009
The show at Mills includes some first editions of Bloomsbury writers issued by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press, but this material combines uneasily with the paintings of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, which predominate. Many of the works presented have a tantalizing effect. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Bloomsbury letters go for 50,000 Sep 4, 2009
The letters, from 1919 to 1947, are between Helen Anrep and members such as Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. The group consisted of artists, writers and intellectuals who lived, worked or studied near Bloomsbury in London. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Today in History Mar 20, 2009
Actress Vanessa Bell Calloway is 52. Actress Holly Hunter is 51. (Yahoo News)
Milan Fashion Week Feb 28, 2009
Quoting the sexually ambivalent figures of England's artistic Bloomsbury set, like Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, allowed Bailey an element of gender blending that refreshed his more familiar high-waisted girlish dresses. A severe striped pantsuit, a pea coat and straight trousers joined the tailored outerwear that is a Burberry strength. (International Herald Tribune)
