Tanaquil Le Clercq and Nicholas Magallanes, posing on a roof in Venice, wearing their costumes by Karinska for George Balanchine's Metamorphoses, 1952.

Marlene Dietrich in Morocco, 1930.

James Cagney as Bottom in Max Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1935.

Lucille Ball, the ultimate comedian.

Gustav Courbet's L'Homme blessé. "The picture painted in 1844 was reworked by Courbet ten years later, at the end of a love affair. The woman, who was originally leaning on the artist's shoulder, has been replaced by a sword and Courbet has added a red bloodstain on his shirt over his heart." - Musée d'Orsay

Karen Blixen (Isaac Dinesen) dressed as Pierette. Photo by Rie Nissen, 1954.

Tamara Karsavina and Vaslav Nijinsky in Nijinsky's Spectre de la Rose, 1911.

George Balanchine demonstrating in class at the School of American Ballet, 1960.

My grandfather, the actor Ed Zimmermann, 1970.

My great-grandfather, Fred Zimmermann, c. 1928. Fred Z. played in the New York Philharmonic from 1930-1966 serving as assistant-principal and principal and taught at the Juilliard School, Mannes College of Music, Columbia University, Manhattan School of Music, and New York University. In addition to music, Zimmermann studied painting with George Grosz at the Art Students' League, had three showings, and often lectured on modern German painters.

Edward Villella and Allegra Kent in George Balanchine's Bugaku, 1963.

1921.

Virginia Woolf's Orlando: A Biography featuring a photograph of Vita-Sackville-West who inspired the 1928 novel.

Montgomery Clift and Joanne Dru in Red River, 1948.

A printed banner of a block print by Peter Schumann of Bread and Puppet Theater.

Anita Louise in Max Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1935.

Anita Louise and James Cagney in Max Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1935.

Marlene Dietrich, c. 1930.

Gustave Doré's Baron Munchausen, 1862.