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Incredible Triplets of Belleville flashback!
Beautiful paper sculptures by U.K. artist Richard Sweeney. Stunning! Fractal, molecular origami?
Another classical rendition of the Three Graces, which I came across while researching images for my most imminent obsession.
Dangerous Beauty at the Chelsea Art Museum
Heaven is a place on earth
Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm 2006
Size: 897 x 681,5 cm
Bathroomscales and aluminium
Photo: Bonniers Konsthall
Margi Geerlinks, “Geppeto” 2000
Nicola Constantino, Savon de Corps is a luxury cosmetic item. It consists in a multiple of 100 bars of soap with 3 per cent of the artist’s body fat. This adipose tissue (amounting to two kilograms) was obtained from a liposuction to which Costantino submitted herself for this project.
Erwin Olaf
Le Dernier Cri,
Photo/Video installation, 2006
Flatland Gallery
“Bhutan: A Certain Modernity,” Serena Chopra @ Sundaram Tagore Gallery,
From the Medium to the Message (Larry Silver) at the Silverstein Photography at 535 W 24th St
European Personal Journalism (Brassai, Bill Brandt, Edouard …)at the Alan Klotz Gallery at 511 W 25th St
The second decade of the 20th Century saw, in Photography, a turning away from the painterly romanticism of Pictorialism in favor of the more objective view of the group f64 (in the U.S.), and in Europe a more reportorial study of the bohemian life.
James Bidgood: Photographs from the 1960s (James Bidgood) ClampArt at 521 W 25th St
ClampArt is very pleased to announce “James Bidgood: Photographs from the 1960s.” A stylistic precursor of such artists as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pierre et Gilles, and David LaChappell, James Bidgood revolutionized gay erotic imagery. Bidgood…
I finally watched Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette. Annie Leibowitz’s cover of Vogue reminded me that I’ve been meaning to see the film. That, and I just picked up Marie Antoinette, Life and Death of the last Great Queen of France Catalina de Habsburgo-Lorena at Bertrand this past December, which I’m still reading.
This last shot is Leibowitz at her directive best.
Any information regarding this image (photographer, year, publication date) is much appreciated. Kate Moss
I think I’ve identified them all! Special thanks to B. Lautz!
Who do you know has the patience to flip though books and magazines, check museum collections online, persistently double-check with friends in order to properly identify the inspiration behind an elaborate advertising campaign? ME. I know it’s maniacal, but well-worth it!
Here I have my two favourite scandalous combinations: Both the Courbet and Manet caused a stir with their styles, both influenced by Photography. While the Courbet was a specific commission for the private male gaze, the Manet was a defiant public declaration. Delicious, is the fact that Kate Moss in a suit, surrounded by two naked models would probably cause a bit of a stir, even today. A woman, in a dominant (well, assertive, really!) role with two nude male nymphs? Outdoors, at a picnic? Both the original painting and Sorrenti’s photograph present relevant interpretations of social taboo.
In Mario Sorrenti’s homage to Courbet, the female embrace of the effeminate probably passes unnoticed, but I believe it is there. I could go on, indefinately…
