Felicien Rops Laboratory of Desires administration this interview series serves as

this interview series serves as a reminder that most art starts as a private contemplation in the isolation of the artist’s studio

last-ditch recipes and ingenious back-of- the-pantry meals straight from movies

avec l'artiste et imprésario pop Malcolm McLaren

Derrière la frontalité apparente

Felicien Rops Laboratory of Desires administration this interview series serves asA master of Belgian Symbolism, rediscovered. Flicien Ropss (183398) erotic works remain provocative todayin the nineteenth century, they transgressed every boundary of art. With a keen eye and a sharp pen, Rops exposed the hypocrisies of the respectable middle class. I am Rops, and I wish to be no other! he declared and adhered to this maxim throughout his life. The most poisonous berry of Symbolism, a scourge of the bourgeoisiemany terms have been