Derek Jarman and friends in Dungeness – unseen pictures
18 MINS AGO - An exhibition of mostly unseen photographs and film of Derek Jarman and his inspirational former Expand
18 MINS AGO - An exhibition of mostly unseen photographs and film of Derek Jarman and his inspirational former Dungeness home, Prospect Cottage, opens at the Lucy Bell Gallery at the end of this month. Featuring his friends and fellow film-makers, 25% of all sales go towards the Art Fund’s campaign to save Prospect Cottage and Jarman’s legacy. The exhibition runs from 29 February until 31 March. Continue reading... Collapse
Instagram CEO Says Limited Resources is Why There’s No Proper iPad App
12 HRS AGO - Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri recently revealed the answer to a question that many IG users have been Expand
12 HRS AGO - Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri recently revealed the answer to a question that many IG users have been asking for years. No, not “is the chronological feed coming back” (he already answered that one a while back). He explained why Instagram, after all these years, still doesn’t have a proper iPad app. The revelation was part […] Collapse
The Ten Commandments as told by presidential figures – in pictures
1 DAY AGO - In her new photo series, artist Dina Goldstein has created tableaux that match a different Expand
1 DAY AGO - In her new photo series, artist Dina Goldstein has created tableaux that match a different president to one of the Ten Commandments. She hopes the images will bring ‘visual shock, incongruity, irony and metaphor to inspire discourse and insight into how American society has gone so astray’ Continue reading... Collapse
Glasgow Film Festival 2020
1 DAY AGO - 26 Feb - 8 Mar This year's Glasgow Film Festival features the best of international cinema from Expand
1 DAY AGO - 26 Feb - 8 Mar This year's Glasgow Film Festival features the best of international cinema from all genres, ranging from mainstream classics to groundbreaking art-house experimentation, with a full programme of supporting events. Collapse
Blackness is not a straitjacket on the imagination': the photography of Dawoud Bey
2 DAYS AGO - A new retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art examines the photographer’s Expand
2 DAYS AGO - A new retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art examines the photographer’s transformation over 50 yearsIn his five-decade-spanning career, the photographer Dawoud Bey has made steady reinvention a pillar of his image-making.His explorations of marginalized and misunderstood communities is the subject of a new retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition is divided chronologically and thematically, an organization that underscores Bey’s ever-changing approaches to blackness. Continue reading... Collapse
Win!Dinner for two and an overnight stay at the design-led Sandman Signature Aberdeen Hotel
2 DAYS AGO - Minutes from the newly refurbished Aberdeen Art Gallery and the historic His Majesty’s Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Minutes from the newly refurbished Aberdeen Art Gallery and the historic His Majesty’s Theatre!
Entry Deadline 31 March 2020
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Putting men in the frame: images of a new masculinity
2 DAYS AGO - Women have spent centuries under the male gaze. Men, less so. As a new exhibition opens at the Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Women have spent centuries under the male gaze. Men, less so. As a new exhibition opens at the Barbican in London, Luke Turner ponders what today’s increasingly fluid notions of masculinity mean for us allThe male gaze can be harshest when directed at the self. Until puberty, I was blissfully unaware of my own body, aside from the odd graze or bee sting. But then, at the age of 11 or 12, my body became a contested space. In the steaming showers after PE, I compared myself unfavourably to others, both my classmates and what I saw in the wider culture. I’m sure I wasn’t alone in finding that infamous Coca-Cola window-cleaner advert (in which a shirtless man tantalises an office full of women) to be 30 seconds of highly triggering humiliation – and a (low-calorie) modicum of sweet revenge for all the years of men doing the same to women.Yet watching the video again as I write this essay on how to explore the buffeted nature of modern masculinity against the physicality of the male body Collapse
Steve McQueen review – don’t look away
2 DAYS AGO - Tate Modern, LondonWhether exposing the horrors of a South African gold mine or probing Charlotte Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Tate Modern, LondonWhether exposing the horrors of a South African gold mine or probing Charlotte Rampling’s eye, McQueen is forever unflinching in his first major UK show for 20 yearsEnter through the film-house gloom and you’re immediately plunged into deeper darkness. The screen before you seethes with obliterating blackness. A blurred face appears for half a second, and occasional glimmers hurtle upwards like sparks up a chimney. But other than the deafening crankshaft thrum, there is almost nothing to confirm that we’re going to hell in a mineshaft.The TauTona mine in South Africa, otherwise known as Western Deep, is the world’s deepest gold mine. The miners have to descend more than three kilometres to reach the broiling depths, working the seams in the erratic light of their puny headlamps. Temperatures can rise to more than 80C. Continue reading... Collapse
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Laia Abril: the photographer bearing witness to rape
1 HR AGO - In a devastating exhibition, the Spanish artist depicts the clothes women, girls – and some men – Expand
1 HR AGO - In a devastating exhibition, the Spanish artist depicts the clothes women, girls – and some men – were raped in. She talks about how her work reveals an epidemic of sexual violence – and how she copesAnnabella Sciorra is in court testifying about the night Harvey Weinstein knocked on her door. She alleges he raped her as she tried to fight him off. “‘No! No! But I mean, there was not much I could do at that point – my body shut down.” Over the years, the court hears, she has experienced what she now recognises as “dissociative states”, drinking too much and cutting herself.What shocks me is how none of this shocks me. It is a familiar story. Weinstein’s team attempt to destroy her in court. Why didn’t she go to the police? Why did she take so long to speak out? Why didn’t she ask a co-star such as Sylvester Stallone to protect her? Yes, she was really asked this. Weinstein denies the charges. The jury started their deliberations on Tuesday. Continue reading... Collapse
Nikon Adds Animal Eye AF to Z6 and Z7 with Major Firmware Update
14 HRS AGO - Nikon has released a major firmware update (Version 3.00) for the full-frame mirrorless Z6 and Z7, Expand
14 HRS AGO - Nikon has released a major firmware update (Version 3.00) for the full-frame mirrorless Z6 and Z7, adding some focus tracking improvements, additional CFExpress support, and one major new feature: Face and Eye “Animal Detection” autofocus for dogs and cats. The new setting appears under Custom Setting a4 (Auto-area AF face/eye detection). Once Animal Detection is […] Collapse
London's 'oldest tavern' threatened with demolition – archive, 18 February 1911
1 DAY AGO - 18 February 1911: Surveyors are already busy taking measurements for a new thoroughfare that could Expand
1 DAY AGO - 18 February 1911: Surveyors are already busy taking measurements for a new thoroughfare that could threaten Cloth Fair’s Dick Whittington Less than twenty years ago the Church of St Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield, was partly occupied as a fringe factory, and in another corner was a blacksmith’s forge. St Bartholomew’s Close, which includes part of Cloth Fair, reflected the fallen state of the church, its ancient houses being mainly given up to poverty and shabby shops. The Earl of Warwick’s house, which still bears the Warwick arms, is let out in single apartments.In the past decade affairs have improved a little in the Close, and many of the picturesque little features of the maze of courts and alleys are brightened with new paint, and flowers struggle up in window boxes and in tiny gardens fenced with green palings in the small stone-paved blind alleys. Continue reading... Collapse
Masculinities review: men laid bare from boardroom to battlefield
1 DAY AGO - Barbican, LondonFrom Taliban fighters in kohl and Hollywood Nazis to the bones of Masahisa Expand
1 DAY AGO - Barbican, LondonFrom Taliban fighters in kohl and Hollywood Nazis to the bones of Masahisa Fukase’s late father, this timely show of photography shows maleness at its most touching, tragic and extremeIn 1972, the French singer Charles Aznavour recorded What Makes a Man a Man. Had Nan Goldin not already used it in her haunting audio-visual installations, the song would make a great soundtrack to this timely group show.Its aim, according to curator Alona Pardo, is to explore how masculinity is “experienced, performed, coded and socially constructed” in photography and film from the 1960s to the present. It’s an ambitious undertaking, given the plurality of subversive masculinities that have have emerged since the 60s, and because of the resilience of certain forms of traditional ultra-male power, from the boardroom to the battlefield. Continue reading... Collapse
Win Sennheiser audio kit worth £2931.97 - Photography News
1 DAY AGO - Our sister title, Pro Moviemaker, has teamed up with Sennheiser to give away prizes worth a total Expand
1 DAY AGO - Our sister title, Pro Moviemaker, has teamed up with Sennheiser to give away prizes worth a total of £2931.97 to ten readers. Find out how to enter here. Collapse
Win! Dinner for two and an overnight stay at the new, art-filled Malmaison Edinburgh City Hotel
2 DAYS AGO - Minutes from the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Scottish Academy and the Scottish Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Minutes from the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Scottish Academy and the Scottish National Gallery! Entry Deadline 31 March 2020 Date of stay subject to availability Collapse
Andy Warhol's 1950s erotic drawings of men to be shown for first time
2 DAYS AGO - Collection lined up for Tate Modern not displayed before due to homophobia artist encounteredAll Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Collection lined up for Tate Modern not displayed before due to homophobia artist encounteredAll about Andy: extracts from Warhol – A Life As ArtDozens of previously unpublished Andy Warhol drawings on the theme of love, sex and desire are to be seen for the first time. The pop artist’s foundation is releasing a major study of his depictions of young men in private moments, whether in a loving embrace or more explicit acts.They date from the 1950s, when Warhol was a successful commercial illustrator but struggling to find recognition as a fine artist, long before he created paintings and prints of movie stars, soup cans and soap-pad boxes that turned him into one of the world’s most famous artists. Continue reading... Collapse
Your pictures: share your photos on the theme of ‘clash’
2 DAYS AGO - Wherever you are in the world, this week we’d like to see your pictures on the theme ‘clash’The Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Wherever you are in the world, this week we’d like to see your pictures on the theme ‘clash’The next theme for our weekly photography assignment, published in print in the Observer New Review is ‘clash’.Share your photos of what clash means to you – and tell us about your image in the description box. Continue reading... Collapse
Simone Lia: copy right?
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PolarPro Unveils ‘LiteChaser Pro’ Filter System and Variable ND for iPhones
8 HRS AGO - PolarPro—maker of high-quality filters for full-sized cameras and drones—has just launched the Expand
8 HRS AGO - PolarPro—maker of high-quality filters for full-sized cameras and drones—has just launched the LiteChaser Pro: a filter system for all three iPhone 11 models that includes a case, four filters, and a grip that doubles as a tripod and accessory mount. The PolarPro LiteChaser Pro wants to be all things to all smartphone shooters, without reaching […] Collapse
French prosecutors investigate Russian artist over sex video
20 HRS AGO - Pyotr Pavlensky and girlfriend face possible charges over scandal involving politicianFrench Expand
20 HRS AGO - Pyotr Pavlensky and girlfriend face possible charges over scandal involving politicianFrench prosecutors have placed a Russian artist and his girlfriend under investigation over the leaking of a sex video that brought down a close ally of Emmanuel Macron.Pyotr Pavlensky and Alexandra de Taddeo are facing charges of invasion of privacy and publishing images of a sexual nature without consent over the leaking of the video that forced Benjamin Griveaux to end his campaign to become mayor of Paris. Continue reading... Collapse
Arts bodies threatened with funding cuts over lack of diversity
1 DAY AGO - Arts Council England figures show BME and disabled people under-represented in sectorArts Expand
1 DAY AGO - Arts Council England figures show BME and disabled people under-represented in sectorArts organisations and museums in England are being warned they will lose public funding unless they meet “stretching” targets to create and attract more diverse workforces and audiences.An annual report from Arts Council England (ACE) paints what its chair, Sir Nicholas Serota, called “a disappointing picture” when it comes to diversity, a year after he said many organisations were “treading water”. Continue reading... Collapse
V&A Museum of Childhood set to close for £13m revamp
1 DAY AGO - London museum will shut in May and reopen in 2022 with new spaces that are ‘less about Expand
1 DAY AGO - London museum will shut in May and reopen in 2022 with new spaces that are ‘less about nostalgia’The V&A’s Museum of Childhood is to get a £13m revamp to create spaces which are less about nostalgia and more about encouraging young people to change the world.Details and concept drawings were revealed on Monday of a major project which will see the Bethnal Green building close for two years for a radical re-imagination of what the museum should be. Continue reading... Collapse
The Lighthouse, Glasgow: Susan Wood – Up Close
1 DAY AGO - 22 Feb - 8 MarIn connection with Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow's Lighthouse is staging an Expand
1 DAY AGO - 22 Feb - 8 MarIn connection with Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow's Lighthouse is staging an exhibition of Susan Wood's movie-photography, which helped win her reputation as one of the 20th century's most renowned photographers. Collapse
A deeper Splash: the artist painting the pool cleaners David Hockney forgot
2 DAYS AGO - As Hockney’s cool pool dive goes for £23m, we meet Ramiro Gomez, the Mexican-American putting Expand
2 DAYS AGO - As Hockney’s cool pool dive goes for £23m, we meet Ramiro Gomez, the Mexican-American putting labourers, security guards, removal men and more back into the pictureDavid Hockney’s “splash” paintings are still making waves. A medium-sized canvas from the 1967 series, showing the aftermath of a dive into the clear blue waters of a California pool, just sold at auction for £23m. In the half-century since it was painted, the work has become synonymous with a languid LA lifestyle, from the glass-fronted house beyond the pool to the two perfect palm trees reaching into a sky empty of everything but blue. This is a secluded bolthole, an oasis from the world of noise, a place to drink and dive.Yet what might the picture look like if its focus was altered, away from the entry into the pool made by that swimmer whose identity Hockney never knew (having based the picture on a photograph)? What if the attention was instead shifted towards the less fortunate guys who have to service the waters Collapse
Win!Tickets to The Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra
2 DAYS AGO - 3 Winners! a pair of tickets each Entry Deadline 15 March 2020 Performance Dates: March 21 at Expand
2 DAYS AGO - 3 Winners! a pair of tickets each Entry Deadline 15 March 2020 Performance Dates: March 21 at 2.30pm Collapse
All about Andy: extracts from Warhol – A Life As Art
2 DAYS AGO - In his new biography, the former chief art critic of the Washington Post sheds new light on the Expand
2 DAYS AGO - In his new biography, the former chief art critic of the Washington Post sheds new light on the late 20th century’s defining artist“Andy Warhol, prince of pop art” – that’s still how we pigeonhole the man often described as the greatest of the west’s postwar artists, even though pop only occupied the first three years of his fine-art career. In the quarter-century that followed, Warhol produced a vast range of work that has gone on to matter at least as much, if not more, to our culture. For better or worse, we’d not be quite where we are without his radical films, his society portraits – cool-eyed or caustic, depending on who you ask – or Interview magazine. The 1,000 pages of Warhol: A Life As Art, my new biography, offers the first definitive account of all that and more.In the two excerpts that follow, we catch Warhol just as he has left pop art behind and is fishing for new ways to make his mark. Continue reading... Collapse
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