Library made the hub of an 'impossible house' Jul 22, 2008
The name Bloomsbury also made sense because the home would house the couple's collection of Virginia Woolf first editions (with dust jackets designed by the writer's sister, Vanessa Bell), letters and related tomes. And speaking of tomes, the home's history has all the makings of a real page-turner. (Globe and Mail)
The firebird of Gordon Square Apr 19, 2008
The equally elderly Vanessa Bell was just a few miles away at Charleston, but, true to form, there was little contact between the two households. Even then, 50 years after Bloomsbury first came together in a spirit of wild hunger for the new and untried, it found it impossible to feel kind towards the woman and the artist who had dared to dance on to its patch. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
B.A.C. charts the progress of the female figure Apr 6, 2008
To the left of Sandys painting, Duncan Grants At Eleanor: Vanessa Bell presents the sitter leaning her head back on her seat ... Osmund Frank J.P. A significantly darker and heavier painting, Mrs. Osmund Franks mood sharply contrasts with those of Grace Rose and Vanessa Bell. (Yale Herald, CT)
Real Brittania Dec 28, 2007
The Bloomsbury set is represented with several paintings and decorated tables by Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry and Duncan Grant. In strident opposition to the mannered Bloomsbury style is the work of the World War I-influenced "vorticists" displayed in another sub-section. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Immodest proposals Oct 13, 2007
Into this undemanding category fall the different accounts of David Garnett by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, Robert Mapplethorpe's pictures of himself as bitch and butch, Picasso's self-portrait of 1906, Kokoschka's self-portrait for Der Sturm and Hilda Carline's Stanley Spencer, all of which have been included in the exhibition. These are all intrinsically conservative; when we come to Alfred Stieglitz's image of Georgia O'Keeffe from nipple to knee, we are up against a similar conservatism. (Guardian Unlimited)
New & Recommended Sep 10, 2007
Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in Literary London Circles 1910-1939By Katie RoipheA provocative account of marital experimenting among such writers and artists as Vanessa Bell, H. G. Wells, and Vera Brittain (Dial, $26). AwayBy Amy BloomBloom's tale of a Russian widow in search of her daughter manages to be lyrical, funny, and brilliant all at once (Random House, $23. (Boston Globe)
In literary London, attempts at more perfect unions Sep 2, 2007
The best-written and most suggestive portrait of marital every-which-ways is that of Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf's painter sister. Her husband, Clive, was idyllically ardent until the birth of a baby aroused Vanessa's lusty maternal instinct, revolting him. (Boston Globe)
The 13th Annual 2007 Essence Music Festival Presented by Coca-Cola Celebrated the Fourth of July Weekend in New Orleans Jul 9, 2007
The three-day Festival kicked off Thursday, July 5, with star-studded evening concert performances featuring The O'Jays with Keith Sweat and Johnny Gill; Isley Brothers Featuring Ron Isley; Ludacris; Ciara; and the McDonald's Gospel Tribute: Smokie Norful and Vanessa Bell Armstrong. Another stellar lineup of artists appeared on Friday, July 6, including: Beyonce; Chris Brown; Steve Harvey; and Robin Thicke. (PR Newswire)
Nancy Wilson Mar 1, 2007
I also enjoy listening to Yolanda Adams, Vanessa Bell Armstrong and Jennifer Holliday. I think Beyonce's performance at the Grammys was incredible. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Rachel Cohen on Leonard Woolf Nov 6, 2006
Vanessa Bell thought Woolf the very man for her sister ... The group was at its most involuted: Strachey and Keynes were both sleeping with Duncan Grant, who had not yet started sleeping with Vanessa Bell, who had two children and was painting seriously and sleeping with Roger Fry. (New Yorker)
2006 DaimlerChrysler Behind the Lens Award Honors Quincy Jones for Film and Television Contributions Oct 26, 2006
Attendees of the event included Patti Austin, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Garcelle Beauvais, LeVar Burton, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Natalie Cole, Loretta Devine, Roberta Flack, Hill Harper, Laylah Hathaway, Cathy Hughes, James Ingram, AJ Johnson, Benny Medina, Niece Nash, Elise Neal, Mario Van Peebles, Victoria Rowell, Shawn Robinson, Robert Townsend, Melinda Williams, Gary Dourdan and many others whom have collaborated with or were inspired by Jones' many incarnations as a pioneer behind the... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
A fresh view Sep 30, 2006
The apples that Woolf, Keynes, Fry and Vanessa Bell (briefly Fry's lover) would privately "gloat on" did not easily find their way into public ownership. In 1920, when Davies tried to loan Mountains in Provence and Still Life With Teapot to the National Gallery, the museum's trustees - who had blocked Fry's nomination as director - demurred, alleging that space to display "modern foreign pictures" was limited. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
