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| Dorothy Iannone |
Q&A with a Buddhist artist
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.
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.”
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| A detail from The Story of Bern by Dorothy Iannone. |
London show will explore works by nine radical feminists whose creations were once considered too explicit to be shown
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.
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| Merces Barcha, Fidel Castro and Gabriel García Márquez |
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| Mercedes Barcha, Gabriel García Márquez, Gonzalo and Rodrigo. |
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.
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.
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| Star quality … Joan Didion, c1977. Photograph: Everett |
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.
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| Spying on an Ex through their spouse (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster/Salon) |
A spy in the house of my first love
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.
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| ‘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 |
Film artist to address landscapes, portraiture and still life in upcoming shows at three of London’s major galleries
Phyllida Barlow, Lucy Skaer and Victoria Crowe also feature in the lineup alongside old masters including Canaletto and Rembrandt
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.
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 2018T
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| Tacita Dean working on The Montafon Letter, part of the Landscape exhibition at the Royal Academy. Photograph: © 2017 Fredrik Nilsen |
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“O
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| ‘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?
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.
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.
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| Euan Uglow’s Curled Nude |
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
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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.
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| Franz Kafka Illustration by Luis Scafati |
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.
