and that would be rad
kromulus@candymail.net - you can 'attach files' image
Tuesday
radmail: take us
take us from 5150: have you seen? TMNK,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/5150everywhere/7542813750/
off the wall
styxx
This is one of several inspired by the vast canyon of the Columbia Gorge, with strong currents of the imaginal...northwest art by Jeffree Stewart
better watch out
Saturday
Tuesday
radmail: art freakish
nujazz - artfreakish,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/awshux/5461360238/
rad - so this is where jazz went
Dormitorium
Figures and sets by the Quay Brothers.
The exhibition features 10 miniature-sized film sets including puppets, props and characters which have been used in the Quay’s unique and innovative films. Stephen and Timothy Quay, identical twins, are highly influential stop motion animators renowned for their craftsmanlike methods, their attention to detail and their unusual sources of inspiration.
The Quay Brothers’ films are described as surreal, moody and macabre representing a world frozen in time, full of cobwebs and dust, mirrors and strange machines. The brothers are heavily influenced by Eastern European visual and literary culture and in particular, Polish animators, Jan Lenica and Walerian Borowyczyk, as well as writers like Franz Kafka and Belgian playwright Michel de Ghelderode.
The set of one of their best-known films, `Street of Crocodiles’, will be on display in the exhibition and the film will be shown in the gallery. `Street of Crocodiles’ adapted from a short story by Polish novelist, Bruno Schulz, and was selected by Terry Gilliam as one of the top 10 best animated films of all time. `This Unnameable Little Broom’ will be also shown in the Gallery and a programme of films by the Quay Brothers and Eastern European animators who influenced their work will be screened in the Leggate Theatre.
[From the University of Liverpool website]
the theater
blondie
"BIG SHOTS ANDY WARHOL POLAROIDS OF CELEBRITIES" at Danziger Projects, NYC - Debbie Harry - 2, originally uploaded by mickeyono2005.
Debbie Harry
www.danzigerprojects.com/exhibitions/2011_1_big-shots/?vi...
BIG SHOTS
ANDY WARHOL
JANUARY 8 - FEBRUARY 26, 2011
Press Release
As an iconic member of the pop movement of the 1960's, Warhol gained fame and recognition for his depiction of recognizable objects and individuals, from brand names products to faces of the rich, famous, and powerful.
"Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids of Celebrities" provides a look at a lesser-known but seminal body of work by the artist who was dazzled by celebrity and found much of his inspiration in the photographic image. Comprised of over thirty Polaroids of subjects ranging from Debbie Harry to Yves St. Laurent and Giorgio Armani to Yoko Ono, the pictures were taken between 1970 and 1986 on Warhol's favorite camera - the Polaroid Big Shot. Created by Polaroid for practical purposes like the quick creation of I.D. cards and passport pictures, the camera's fixed focal length and point-and-shoot mechanism were perfect for the snapshot-loving artist.
The camera also served as an indispensable tool for Warhol in the production of commissioned portraits. He would take several packs of film at each sitting, and then select his favorite image to be silkscreened onto canvas by his assistants. The resulting image became the ground and basis of each painting. Proving that the simplest tools are no impediment to creativity, Warhol's Polaroids are both a celebration of fame and an intriguing look at the cleverness behind the façade Warhol so often used to disguise the intelligence and innovation of his work.
Within the tight rectangle that the camera dictated, and behind an implement that provided a necessary barrier between himself and his sitter, we see Warhol finding numerous ways to create memorable, varied, and iconic compositions. They may be small in size, but Warhol's Polaroids serve as vivid portraits and artful time capsules of an era.
In recent years, Warhol's Polaroids have gained attention and respect in exhibitions and books, both for their centrality to his portrait practice and as works in their own right. While Warhol is not best known as a photographer, he loved the medium, an apt one for the artist due to its repetitive, mechanical nature and its ability to illuminate the sense of star-power Warhol felt when faced with his famous subjects.
For more information please call 212 629-6778 or e-mail info@danzigerprojects.com
www.danzigerprojects.com/
Danziger Projects
534 W 24th St
New York, NY 10001
(212) 629-6778
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