Coffee with a Curator
March 4 @ 10:30am – 11:30am
Giacometti’s Women
(and Other Forgotten Female Artists and Muses of Bohemian Paris)
Join us for this month’s installment of our Coffee with a Curator series, where Museum staff or invited guests speak on a range of Salvador Dalí-inspired topics.
In celebration of Woman’s History Month and our special exhibition Alberto Giacometti & Salvador Dalí: Through & Beyond Surrealism, we invite you to explore the forgotten female artist and muses of Bohemian Paris.
Women are too often only a footnote in the history of bohemian Paris. You may have heard of Kiki de Montparnasse, but what about Giacometti’s first mistress, American sculptor Flora Mayo, or the other women who inspired his iconic sculptures, including his wife Annette, Isabel Nicholas and a prostitute named Caroline?
In this talk, Margo Hammond brings these women to life, along with other forgotten female muses and artists of Montparnasse: Russian painter Marie Vassilief who ran a canteen for artists, German baroness turned performance artist Elsa Von Fretag-Loringhoven, English lampshade designer Mina Loy, French Vicomtesse and Dalí patron Marie-Laure de Noailles, Italian Marquese Luisa Casata and American journalist Djuna Barnes who came to Paris on assignment and stayed a decade. You may find yourself wanting to stay there too.
Location: The Dalí Museum’s Will Raymund Theater (registration required) or live on YouTube (link below).
This event is free with limited capacity. An event ticket is required for entry.
Please note: due to the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, the Museum parking lot will be closed on Wed, Mar 4. Click here for parking details if you plan to attend.
Gallery access is not included.
To watch the live stream from home, click below at the time of the program:
Margo Hammond
Working in journalism for over 50 years — including stints at Variety (in the Rome bureau), The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Star, The Baltimore Sun and The St. Petersburg Times — Margo Hammond has returned to her lifelong dream of writing plays. In 2020 her 10-minute play Notorious was included in USF’s Emerging Playwrights: A Virtual Stage Reading under the direction of her teacher, local playwright William Leavengood. Other playwriting teachers who have inspired her are Obie winner Harry Kondoleon, Emmy winner John Ford Noonan, and Producing Artistic Director of American Stage Helen Murray.
