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Garry Winogrand: New York, Blonde Woman with Wind-Blown Hair from "Women are Beautiful"

Artist: Winogrand, Gary

Bio:View Biography on artnet

Title: New York, Blonde Woman with Wind-Blown Hair from "Women are Beautiful"

Style: Contemporary (ca. 1945-present)

Medium: Photographs, Silver print

Year: 1965

Print/Casting Year: ie. circa 1980

Size: height - 14 in, width - 11 in, depth - 0 in

Markings: signed, and editioned out of 80 in graphite on verso

Estimate: from $5,000 to $7,000 

 

Own Your Own Island

 

Everyone loves a river view, like the one from this two-bedroom, two-bath at Battery Park City’s ecofriendly Visionaire condo. But how about water on all sides? Willo-Isle, a one-acre patch of land in the middle of a private body of water called Putnam Lake, holds a four-bedroom prewar stone house and a guest cottage and is reachable only by a five-minute boat ride, says broker John Mehigan of Gumley Haft Kleier. So in addition to maintaining a car, you’ll need a skiff—but at least it will be convenient. There’s a two-car garage onshore, right by the dock.

WILLO-ISLE, PATTERSON, NEW YORK 

The Facts: A one-acre island with a four-bedroom stone house and a guest cottage. 

Asking Price: $1.55 million. 

Taxes: $1,138.44 per year. 

Agent: John Mehigan, Gumley Haft Kleier.

via: New York Magazine

"White Ghost" on Park Avenue

The cutesy yet devilish cartoon characters created by the Japanese neo-Pop artist Yoshitomo Nara will soon be familiar sights on the Upper East Side landscape. On Aug. 29 a pair of whimsical, 12-foot-high fiberglass dogs will stand guard like 21st-century Komainu, those mythical lionlike statues commonly placed at the entrance to Japanese shrines to ward off evil spirits.

Organized by the nonprofit Art Production Fund, which presents art around the city, the outdoor installations — one across from the entrance to the Asia Society at 725 Park Avenue, at 70th Street, and the other at 67th Street and Park Avenue just in front of the Park Avenue Armory — will give New Yorkers a hint of a much larger initiative. The Asia Society is presenting a major retrospective of the artist’s work, “Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody’s Fool,” from Sept. 9 through Jan. 2. It will be the first time the entire museum will be filled with the work of just one artist and will include more than 100 works — drawings, paintings, sculptures, record album covers and large installations — that span the 50-year-old Mr. Nara’s career. 

via: (Inside Art) The New York Times

 

Alice Neel: Painted Truths, Whitechapel Gallery, London

 

The American painter Alice Neel, who died in 1984, described herself as a collector of souls, and there's no doubt that when she painted a portrait, she was painting far more than a body and face. Something, which seems to come from the sitters, quivers shakily on her canvases – painted eyes and hands often seem to wobble unsteadily. Groups of sitters, families and couples, don't seem to be connected to one another.

While Neel's contemporaries and friends in New York, where she lived, were making abstract painting or pop art, she stuck doggedly to painting portraits throughout her life, capturing not only the city's artistic milieu of which she was part, but bundles of fragility and uncertainty within it.

The De Vegh Twins (1975) are reminiscent of Diane Arbus's photograph of a similarly spooky pair of young girl twins, though these are painted in florid shades – raven-haired girls in bright red dresses before a purple cabinet, one sitting and one standing, both oddly adult in expression.

link: The Independent

Whitechapel Gallery

Retratos Pintados (“painted portraits”)

Sometimes the ordinary black-and-white portrait just isn’t enough. If you lived in Northeastern Brazil over the course of the last century, you might have solved that problem by taking your family portraits to a studio of local artisans, who would embellish the likeness of your loved ones with a layer of colorful, hand-painted oil washes. This practice could also resolve issues like boring clothes or hairstyles, lack of jewelry, male pattern baldness, or even a death in the family.

Yossi Milo Gallery’s current show provides a hundred and fifty wonderful examples of this practice of vernacular photography common to the region. The pictures are hung salon-style, and offer a vast range of faces and figures, from babies to grandparents. In the best of these pictures, bits of the black-and-white print peek through the painted surface, revealing wrinkled brows, or the hints of a smile or frown beneath emboldened lips and eyes.

These pictures were selected from the collection of Titus Reidl, a European who has lived in the region for fifteen years. The Retratos Pintados book, edited by Reidl and the photographer Martin Parr and published by Parr/Nazraeli, is available at the gallery. Neither are to be missed—they are lovely collections of a remarkable and fading craft, a summer treat on view through September 18th. Check out a selection below.

via: The New Yorker / Photo Booth 

"Florent: Queen of the Meat Market"

Florent Morellet, best known for his eponymous 24-hour diner, is the subject of David Sigal's documentary, Florent: Queen of the Meat Market. The film, which highlights Florent's role in social activism and the downtown scene, premiered at the New York City Food Film Festival, winning Best Film Made In New York and The Feature Film Award. Amidst the premiere's festivities, Louise McCready had a moment to chat with Florent about how and why it all started and what he plans to do next.

via: The Huffington Post

Matchless Cone (Conus Cedonulli)

Matchless Cone (Conus Cedonulli) was one of the rarest shells in the 18th century. 

In 1796 a specimen brought more than six times as much as a painting by Vermeer that was sold at the same auction. It is still considered rare to uncommon, and it is prized by collectors for its beautiful pattern. With the advent of scuba diving, it is now found more often. All cone shells are venomous and should be handled with care when alive. The venom of C. cedonulli is not fatal to humans, but its sting may still be painful.

via:The New York Times

 

Harvey Pekar, ‘American Splendor’ Creator, Dies at 70

The legendary comic-book author made a notorious appearance on Letterman in 1988, during which he ranted against NBC's corporate owner General Electric. He later said of it: "[W]ith Letterman ... you either lay down and let him insult you or you do something about it. Most people keep their mouth shut and let him dump on them. I don't wanna do that."  

via: nymag.com

Edie and Thea

Trailer for the documentary film

"Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement," a true love story about two New York women whose relationship spans over four decades. 

Edie and Thea are the real deal! 

See it on the 

Sundance Channel.