Ladders of escape: Joan Miró’s bizarre love triangle
A calm walk through the charged landscapes of 'Dog Barking at the Moon'
I have been fascinated by Joan Miró’s 1926 painting ‘Dog Barking at the Moon’ since I was sixteen or so. It’s a painting I have never seen in person, and it is, as far as I know, currently unseeable: it is in the collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but it is not on display. I’ve thought about it a lot, on and off, or used it to think with, whi…
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