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"Summer Nights, Walking"

 

 Robert Adams leads the viewer outwards in these photographs from the populated center of the suburban town towards the rustic plain and distant Rocky Mountains. During his evening perambulations the photographer captured trees and houses, mountains and streets, fields and sidewalks between dusk and approaching dark. Lit by the setting sun, street lamps, and moonlight, his compositions are never conventionally beautiful. They vacillate between quiet foreboding and tranquil domesticity and, as the photographer has expressed in his own writing, attempt to capture the timelessness and peace of warm summer evenings. 

Robert Adams 

Summer Nights, Walking

Matthew Marks Gallery

February 6 - April 17, 2010 

Joni Mitchell-California (BBC)

Thanks Joe...

Milton Avery: Industrial Revelations

 

A close look at the little-known early works presented in Milton Avery: Industrial Revelations makes evident for the first time that Avery was an attentive observer of the immense technological changes that were taking place in the American economy and in society from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s. 

Although Avery did occasionally exhibit some of this output, scholars and critics have tended to overlook this thread in his work, in favor of themes of leisure, nature, and the figure that anticipate his later development. Since Avery’s industrial images remained little known, they are absent from major studies of America and the machine age, the term often used to characterize the period between the two world wars. —Gail Levin (2010)

Knoedler & Company presents, in cooperation with the artist’s family and the Milton Avery Trust, Milton Avery: Industrial Revelations, an exhibition of paintings and works on paper (including both watercolors and gouaches) depicting the urban and industrial landscape of the 1920s and 1930s, most painted in and around New York City. A relatively little-known body of work, from the early years of Avery’s mature career, many of the paintings and works on paper in this exhibition have never been previously exhibited.

 

Happy Valentine's Day

 

 PARIS—The flooding of the River Seine, February 1978.

© Patrick Zachmann / Magnum Photos

 

Number 134, 2009

 

Leonardo Drew's “Number 134,” at Sikkema Jenkins & Company, is "a glowering, craggy mass of wood in several forms — blocks, beams, sticks, shingles, tree limbs and trunks — all of them painted black and many projecting outward like weapons or natural eruptions."

 ~ Roberta Smith, The New York Times

Alexander McQueen RIP

The fashion world was in shock today with news that British designer Alexander McQueen has taken his own life.

The 40-year-old "enfant terrible" was often credited with revitalizing a flagging British fashion industry with his flamboyant womenswear and outrageous runway presentations. 

In 1999 he sent amputee model Aimee Mullins down the catwalk in a pair of hand-carved wooden legs and boots, a spectacle which jolted him to the front pages of the world's fashion press.

The designer was devastated last week by the death of his mother. In addition, insiders say McQueen, whose health has been the subject of gossip within the fashion industry for years, never recovered from the suicide three years ago of his close friend, stylist Isabella Blow. 

Blow, known for her theatrical hats, discovered McQueen while she was the fashion editor of society magazine Tatler and promoted him with her considerable influence.

The designer was known by personal friends by his real first name, Lee. McQueen explained that when he began selling his designs he was still accepting unemployment benefits from the government, and didn't want to use his legal name in case they found out and cut off his checks.

Another famous anecdote had the young designer, as an apprentice tailor on fancy Saville Row, sewing an obscenity into the lining of a custom-made suit jacket for Prince Charles. He also had unflattering (and unprintable) things to say about contemporary figures such as David Beckham.

McQueen's death has been confirmed by his office, which offered no further details. He was set to debut his new collection at the Paris shows in March. 

'The Beauty of Things'

For man's half dream; man, you might say, is nature dreaming, but rock

And water and sky are constant--to feel

Greatly, and understanding greatly, and express greatly, the natural

Beauty, is the sole business of poetry.
 

Excerpt from the poem:

'The Beauty of Things'

 By Robinson Jeffers  

Photograph: Richard Misrach

Flamenco Through Photography

Aperture Foundation, and Instituto Cervantes have partnered to celebrate and interpret the art of flamenco through photography in two concurrent exhibitions which opened February 4 and 5 at Aperture Gallery and Instituto Cervantes respectively, just prior to the launch of the 10th annual New York Flamenco Festival on February 11.  

Whether as social phenomenon or musical expression, flamenco has been of enduring interest and inspiration to photographers from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. While some photographers from outside of Spain went in search of it or encountered it by chance, to others flamenco and its practitioners are an essential, if not innate, aspect of their cultural heritage and their photographic work.

Divided into two parts, this exhibition features work by Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Brassaï, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Francesc Catalá Roca, Inge Morath, Martin Parr, Man Ray, and Miguel Rio Branco. 

 

Giacometti Sculpture 'L'Homme qui marche I' Fetches $104.3 Million, World Record: Sotheby's

A life-size bronze sculpture of a man by Alberto Giacometti has been sold at a London auction for 65 million pounds ($104 million). Sotheby's says the sale set a world record as the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction.

The auction house said Wednesday it took just eight minutes for bidders to reach the hammer price for "L'Homme Qui Marche I" (Walking Man I), which opened at 12 million pounds.

Sotheby's says the piece was sold to an anonymous bidder by telephone.

link: Huffington Post

 

Gators Gone Wild

Campanas + Lacoste

Limited Edition shirt

women's

designer:

Fernando and Humberto Campana

design year:

2009

manufacturer:

Lacoste, France

materials:

cotton; with straw mat packaging

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