Writer and Maestro

Oscar Wilde - devoted to beauty, famously ruined by his homosexuality, writing that extraordinary letter in prison - a meditation, re-imagining Christ as an artist to express his suffering in De Profundis

Sergei Diaghilev not only thrived despite, in the early 20th century, he leveraged it - introducing Russian and modern ballet to the west, the father of modern art - everyone followed him

including Stravinsky, Nijinsky, Massine and Matisse, Balanchine, Bakst, Benois and Braque, Coco Chanel, Cocteau, and de Chirico, Dali, even Brecht, and of course Picasso…once upon a time