Monday, May 31, 2021

An Interview with Dorothy Iannone

Dorothy Iannone


An Interview with Dorothy Iannone

Q&A with a Buddhist artist

By Noa Jones

 

Profession: Artist
Age: 79
Location: Berlin, Germany

Your home is so beautiful; these macaroons are delightful; everywhere I look there is either a piece of art or something artfully placed. 

In a way, my apartment is my kingdom: it’s filled with inspiration and it is a great support. 

Dorothy Iannone / The Story of Bern, [or] Showing Colors

 


The Story of Bern, [or] Showing Colors


The seminal tale of Iannone's advocacy for sexual liberation.

“As much as Love and Eros have defined my work since its beginnings, so too has censorship or its shadow, accompanied it,” recalls Dorothy Iannone in her introduction to this facsimile publication of her legendary “The Story of Bern, [or] Showing Colors.”

Frieze frame / Graphic sex and female sexuality under spotlight at art fair

 

A detail from The Story of Bern by Dorothy Iannone.


Frieze frame: graphic sex and female sexuality under spotlight at art fair


London show will explore works by nine radical feminists whose creations were once considered too explicit to be shown


Mark Brown
Tuesday 19 September 2017


Overlooked and rejected works from the 1970s and 80s depicting female sexuality, graphic sex and women as empowered objects of desire are to take centre stage at one of the world’s most important art fairs.

Sunday, May 30, 2021

The last days of Gabriel García Márquez

 

Merces Barcha, Fidel Castro and Gabriel García Márquez


The last days of Gabriel García Márquez

The son of the author of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ has written an intimate portrait of his father’s struggle with memory loss, and the death of his mother Mercedes Barcha, who passed away last year





Camila Osorio
México, 28 May 2021

When Gabriel García Márquez was writing One Hundred Years of Solitude in the 1960s, he said one of the most difficult moments was when he got to the death of the memorable Colonel Aureliano Buendía. “Gabo,” as the Colombian author was popularly known, left the study of his home in Mexico City and went to find his wife, Mercedes Barcha, in the bedroom. “I killed the colonel,” he told her, heartbroken. “She knew what that meant for him and they remained silent with the sad news,” says García Márquez’s son, Rodrigo García, remembering his parents’ grief. Now it is Rodrigo who is writing about his own grief in a new book about the death of his parents, Gabo y Mercedes: una despedida (or, Gabo and Mercedes: a farewell).

A Letter to My Father, Gabriel García Márquez

Mercedes Barcha, Gabriel García Márquez, Gonzalo and Rodrigo.
 

A Letter to My Father, Gabriel García Márquez

Not a day goes by that I don’t come across a reference to your novel “Love in the Time of Cholera.” It’s impossible not to speculate about what you would have made of all this.


Carta a mi padre, Gabriel García Márquez


Gabo,

April 17 was the sixth anniversary of your death, and the world has gone on largely as it always has, with human beings behaving with stunning and creative cruelty, sublime generosity and sacrifice, and everything in between.

Saturday, May 29, 2021

California cool and Magical Thinking / Joan Didion at 86

Star quality … Joan Didion, c1977. Photograph: Everett


California cool and Magical Thinking: Joan Didion at 86


Whether reporting from the trippy heart of 1960s counterculture or covering the trial of the Central Park Five, the legendary essayist brings a spirit of restless inquiry to all her writing


Alex Clark

Monday 8 February 2021


To think about Joan Didion, you have to confront two things before you get to the words: the pictures and the anecdotes. If you’re interested in certain aspects of the culture – American counterculture in the 1960s, California, female writers – the pictures are familiar, if not ingrained. There’s Didion in her long dress with long hair, smoking, leaning against her Corvette Stingray; standing up in its sunroof; lolling out of the driver’s window, in Julian Wasser’s 1968 shoot; inside, pictured with her daughter Quintana on her lap (her favourite of that day), or staring straight at the camera. Wasser remembers her as “a very easy person to talk to. No Hollywood affectations” – but the photographs themselves had such star quality that the fashion house Céline not only recreated one in its 2015 ad campaign, but also featured the then 80-year-old writer herself, in black sweater and enormous sunglasses.

Susan Shapiro / A spy in the house of my first love

Spying on an Ex through their spouse (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster/Salon)

A spy in the house of my first love

"Have NO idea why I am sharing such personal things with u," my old boyfriend's wife wrote me


By SUSAN SHAPIRO
PUBLISHED MAY 1, 2021 11:30PM (UTC)

In  HBO Max's new dark comedy series "Made For Love," the CEO of a technology company implants a microchip in his ex's brain, making it nearly impossible for her to leave him. Years before GPS devises and the high-tech billionaire boom, I felt brainwashed by a boyfriend I couldn't escape.

Friday, May 28, 2021

Three galleries, three genres / UK celebration of Tacita Dean


‘Like looming planets’: Tacita Dean’s Prisoner Pair (2008), from Still Life at the National Gallery. Photograph: Courtesy the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris


Three galleries, three genres – UK celebration of Tacita Dean

Film artist to address landscapes, portraiture and still life in upcoming shows at three of London’s major galleries



Mark Brown 
Arts correspondent
Tue 16 Jan 2018 14.35 GMT


The reputation of Tacita Dean as one of the most important and influential British artists working today will be cemented this year with an unprecedented collaboration between three major galleries showing her work across three genres.

Tacita Dean and Jenny Saville lead strong female presence at Edinburgh art festival


Focus on portraiture … Ronald Stevenson (1983) by Victoria Crowe.

Focus on portraiture … Ronald Stevenson (1983) by Victoria Crowe. Photograph: RS Anderson/Victoria Crowe


Tacita Dean and Jenny Saville lead strong female presence at Edinburgh art festival


Phyllida Barlow, Lucy Skaer and Victoria Crowe also feature in the lineup alongside old masters including Canaletto and Rembrandt


Dale Berning Sawa
Mon 26 Mar 2018 00.01 BST


The Edinburgh art festival has announced its 2018 programme. The annual event, which this year takes place between 26 July and 26 August alongside the international festival and the fringe, will mark its 15th anniversary with 36 exhibitions at venues across the city.

The Guardian view on artist Tacita Dean: epic, intimate and in touch with history



The Guardian view on artist Tacita Dean: epic, intimate and in touch with history

Editorial


Contemporary art is often seen as having brutally abandoned tradition. But the best work of the present is in conversation with that of the past

Sunday 18 March 2018

T

his is the artist Tacita Dean’s year: she is the focus of four major British exhibitions. Two have just opened: Portrait, at London’s National Portrait Gallery, which focuses on her films of human subjects, including choreographer Merce Cunningham, and the artists David Hockney and Cy Twombly; and Still Life at the National Gallery next door, a delicate, two-room exhibition for which she has assembled works of art from the present alongside paintings from the past. In May comes a retrospective at London’s Royal Academy of Arts. In July, an exhibition at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh looking at performance in her work.

Thursday, May 27, 2021

Tacita Dean on the pandemic: ‘We had all this free time / And I was useless!’

Tacita Dean working on The Montafon Letter, part of the Landscape exhibition at the Royal Academy. 
Photograph: © 2017 Fredrik Nilsen

Interview

Tacita Dean on the pandemic: ‘We had all this free time – and I was useless!’

During lockdown, the artist made this dirty postcard and little else. Now back on track, she talks about her upcoming shows – and feeling baffled by this new ‘we’re all in it together’ Britain

Charlotte Higgins
Thursday 27 May 2021

“O

ne is such a disappointment to oneself, workwise,” says Tacita Dean, sadly. This seems faintly mad – Dean is one of Britain’s most celebrated artists, her work dealing with the drift of time; the play of chance; the decaying of things. Three years ago, she filled three London institutions – the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery and the Royal Academy – with art, and topped it off with a show at the Fruitmarket, Edinburgh.


‘My single project of 2020’ … Shite Zeit, a postcard by Dean. Photograph: Courtesy the artist


My favourite work then was an allusive, elliptical film called Antigone, loosely based on the Theban plays of Sophocles, which excavated her own, Oedipus-like limping gait; the vaporous landscapes of Bodmin Moor and Yosemite; and a heartstopping total eclipse of the sun. Now she’s back with a new installation for the Hepworth Wakefield, currently marking its 10th anniversary. So why on earth is she so disappointed in herself?

Emma Donoghue on Writing ‘The Pull of the Stars,’ / Set During the 1918 Pandemic




Wednesday, May 26, 2021

I have the option of a second dose of the Pfizer vaccine after having had the AstraZeneca / What should I do?

 



I have the option of a second dose of the Pfizer vaccine after having had the AstraZeneca: What should I do?


Around 1.5 million essential workers in Spain will be faced with this choice, after cases of rare blood clots were linked to the Anglo-Swedish medication. Experts respond to questions about the best course of action




Oriol Güell
Barcelona, 21 may 2021


Carlos Agudo, a 35-year-old pharmacist who works in Jaén, southern Spain, is one of the 1.5 million essential workers aged under 60 who was given a first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, and now finds himself in a situation he “never could have imagined.” On Thursday, he has his appointment for a second dose, but will be able to choose whether to opt for the Anglo-Swedish medication, or the vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech. “With so many ups and downs, they’re even making us have doubts, and we’re healthcare professionals,” he complains. “I don’t even want to think about the teachers and others who are in the same situation.

Nights in White Satin / Carlo Mollino & Helmut Newton

NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN: Carlo Mollino & Helmut Newton

NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN: Carlo Mollino & Helmut Newton


What connects the lascivious intimacy in the pictures made during the 1940’s by Carlo Mollino, baroque genius and free spirit, and the modern amazons glorified by Helmut Newton in their provocative eroticism during the 1980’s? The woman, muse in all the splendour of the naked body she offers to the world. Through eighteen vintage prints, SAGE Paris proposes a quick history of nude and of its evolution, from confidential images made in the 1940’s Italy, to cold stylized shots, inspired by fashion photography in the 80’s.

Helmut Newton / Women / Livejournal



WOMEN
by Helmut Newton





Alain Elkann interviews Helmut Newton

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Helmut Newton
by Alain Elkann

Helmut Newton is sitting in a light green chair in his studio on the thirty-third floor of a high rise in Monte Carlo with a view of the sea, the Tennis Club and the peninsula where designer Karl Lagerfeld has his house up on high. The great photographer is dressed completely in white with a cashmere pullover, blue-jeans-style pants, and tennis shoes. He is wearing round glasses with mother-of-pearl frames. His studio is full of paintings – a Vesuvius by Andy Warhol, a blow-up doll, and a painting by Roy Lichtenstein showing an interior setting.

Monday, May 24, 2021

Euan Uglow / Perfectionist painter of nudes and explorer of perspective



Euan Uglow

(1932 - 2000)

Perfectionist painter of nudes and explorer of perspective


Catherine Lampert
Friday 1 September 2000

If the legacy of Euan Uglow, who has died aged 68, were imagined as a string of gems, the rarest would be his beautifully faceted paintings of silent nudes. Equally distinctive are those of solitary fruit or fragile flowers. Although greatly desired by individuals, they were undervalued by exhibition- and collection-making professionals, and are under-represented in museums.

The Great British Art Tour / ‘I thought I was going to scream with boredom and pain’


Euan Uglow’s Curled Nude 


The Great British Art Tour: ‘I thought I was going to scream with boredom and pain’

As art galleries prepare for reopening, our virtual tour exploring highlights from the UK’s public collections reaches its final week. Today’s pick: Euan Uglow’s Curled Nude on a Stool, in Hull’s Ferens Gallery


Tom Robinson

Friday 14 May 2021

A

woman with short hair sits on a low stool. The work’s title, Curled Nude on a Stool, pointedly describes the pose. She leans forward, body pressing on thighs. Her lowered head is in line with her knees, and hands touch feet at the floor. The figure is in profile – we see one arm, one ear and one leg. The arm hides her face.

Euan Uglow / Form, Color and Space

 


EUAN UGLOW

Form, Color and Space

One of my favorite British painters is Euan Uglow ( 1932 - 2000 ). His work is painterly, precise and visually compelling. He worked from life almost exclusively and focused mostly on still-life, interiors and the figure. Uglow studied with William Coldstream at the Slade School of Art and is considered a contemporary of Lucien Freud.

Friday, May 21, 2021

Kafka / The Writer Who Didn't Want to Be Read

 

Franz Kafka
Illustration by Luis Scafati


Kafka: The Writer Who Didn't Want to Be Read

Franz Kafka, one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, was born 125 years ago in Prague. Had he had his way, his manuscripts would have been destroyed after his death and never published.


Known for his long, drawn-out sentences and penchant for ambiguity -- which make his works a real challenge for translators -- Kafka authored "Metamorphosis" (1915), "The Trial" (1925), "The Castle" (1926) and a slough of other well-known short stories and novel.

Kafka’s Other Trial

 


Kafka’s Other Trial


Although much of Penguin Modern Classics time now seems to be spent publishing what they call ‘pure classic escapism’, every so often they release something interesting and unusual, a perfect example being Elias Canetti’s Kafka’s Other Trial. Canetti was a restless Jewish intellectual, one among many who light up the literature of Europe during the twentieth century. Born in Bulgaria, educated in Vienna, he moved to London during the war, and then relocated to Zurich where he died in 1994 (having received the Nobel Prize in 1981). That he was restless intellectually can be seen from the fact that his best known works cover a number of genres: the novel Auto da Fe, a three volume autobiography, and a study of crowd behaviour, Crowds and Power.

Luis Scafati / Kafka



Luis Scafati
KAFKA




Thursday, May 20, 2021

Anya Taylor-Joy in Green Dior Dress for the 2021 Golden Globes



Anya Taylor-Joy in Green Dior Dress for the 2021 Golden Globes – CELEBRITY STYLE


April 24, 2021

Anya Taylor-Joy in Green Dior Dress for the 2021 Golden Globes. Anya Taylor-Joy è una giovane attrice che deve la sua fama planetaria alla serie tv La regina degli scacchi ideata e diretta da Scott Frank, targata Netflix. La sua interpretazione di Elizabeth Harmon, giocatrice di scacchi imbattibile dal passato travagliato, aveva già conquistato il pubblico di tutto il mondo, ma il riconoscimento più grande per Lei è arrivato con la vittoria del suo primo Golden Globe come Migliore attrice in una mini-serie.

John Patterson / Welcome back, Sissy Spacek



Welcome back, Sissy

John Patterson is thankful to still get a glimpse of Sissy Spacek - the artist formerly known as Rainbo

Saturday 30 October 2004


T
he good name of the great state of Texas may currently be mud among 50% of Americans, but in truth, Texas isn't just the home of Halliburton KBR, Enron and a fast-track death-penalty process. Lots of cool things have come out of the Lone Star state: Jewish country singer and comic mystery novelist Kinky Friedman, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, the Dallas Cowboys' Cheerleaders, T-Bone Walker, Patricia Highsmith, Tommy Lee Jones, Woody Harrelson - and Sissy Spacek.

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Portrait of an Artist, Her Work Revived

Perle Fine


Portrait of an Artist, Her Work Revived

BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO
24 APRIL, 2009

In most survey books on American art history, the artists associated with Abstract Expressionism in New York in the 1950s and ’60s are almost exclusively men. In recent years, however, museums on Long Island and elsewhere have sought to widen our vision of the movement, highlighting the achievements of many talented, if sidelined, female artists.

Letters and Paintings from Groundbreaking Mid-Century Artist Perle Fine

Perle Fine


Letters and Paintings from Groundbreaking Mid-Century Artist Perle Fine

BY MONICA MCTIGHE

Perle Fine, a painter whose work is held in the permanent collection, was active in the avant-garde art scene in New York City from the 1920s through the 1960s. But despite her connection to well-known artists and her success in exhibiting her work, Fine is not well known among 20th-century American abstract painters.