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Giant Gertrude Stein Ridiculed By Little Male If you want to see a fresh example of how a great woman author is being diminished by a male critic, with no holds barred, go to the Washington Post and read: Review … Continue reading →

Gertrude Stein a “Collaborator“, a „Nazi“? Questions abound. Suddenly everyone asks about Gertrude Stein’s whereabouts during WW2. How come she stayed in France when France was Nazi-occupied? Why didn’t she leave? Why didn’t she and Alice get the treatment of … Continue reading →

The San Francisco Chronicle called it “a little silly and naïve,” and was it? Four Saints was supposed to be a highlight of the two landmark shows on Gertrude Stein – Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories and The Steins Collect: … Continue reading →

27, rue de Fleurus September 2011 Usually the glass door only allows a glance into the far-away courtyard, well locked away by a modern door code – not like in my old Paris days, when all you had to do … Continue reading →

“Gertrude Stein gone gone is gone,” to paraphrase the American press. Is it really true that she is gone? Stein had become a San Francisco neighbor, someone to say hello to across the street, back and forth between SFMOMA and … Continue reading →

Stein’s Opera Four Saints in Three Acts It had to happen. A let-down after the high excitement of the landmark Stein exhibitions. (Although there must have been others duds in the myriads of lectures, panels, and even performances surrounding the … Continue reading →

SLUTTING IN SF: GERTRUDE STEIN ON SLUTWALK? San Francisco had its first SlutWalk last Saturday, and was Gertrude Stein along for the ride? Good question. Controversial question, as most questions are regarding Stein. Now that the avant-garde has collectively declared … Continue reading →

Lesbians holding hands a No-no at “Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories” Two hand-holding women were forced out of the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco by a zealous guard. In San Francisco! Where did this dinosaur of a guy come … Continue reading →