When home won't let you stay': artwork addressing global migration
6 HRS AGO - In a new exhibition in Boston, brings together 20 years of artists exploring issues of Expand
6 HRS AGO - In a new exhibition in Boston, brings together 20 years of artists exploring issues of displacement and immigration“You only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well,” writes Warsan Shire, a Somali-British poet in her poem, Home.Another line from the poem, “When home won’t let you stay,” is the title of a new exhibition opening 23 October at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Continue reading... Collapse
Klaus Friedeberger obituary
18 HRS AGO - Abstract painter whose work was inspired by Australia and honed in LondonThe paintings of Klaus Expand
18 HRS AGO - Abstract painter whose work was inspired by Australia and honed in LondonThe paintings of Klaus Friedeberger, who has died aged 97, were forged in the dry heat of central Australia during the second world war and fostered in 1950s London, where he began a lifelong inquiry into abstract painting.Whereas many abstract painters of the 60s were working on a large scale with fields of unmodulated colour that emphasised the flatness of the surface of the painting, Friedeberger eventually eschewed colour altogether. Working unfashionably on an easel, he made small, modest monochromatic paintings of abstracted forms that advanced, receded or hovered in space within the confines of a square canvas, never quite abandoning the illusion of pictorial space. Continue reading... Collapse
It’s the end of the world as we know it... and Michael Stipe feels fine
1 DAY AGO - The ex-REM frontman talks us through his new collection of photographs - and explains why he’s Expand
1 DAY AGO - The ex-REM frontman talks us through his new collection of photographs - and explains why he’s giving all profits from his new single to Extinction RebellionPhotography in the digital age by Michael Stipe - in picturesMichael Stipe pops his head around a pillar. “Hello! It’s Michael!” he says, though we’ve met before and he’s very famous. It’s early evening and we’re in the lobby of Stipe’s London hotel, two minutes’ walk from the Extinction Rebellion protest in Trafalgar Square. All is shiny, stately and calm, though we can hear the occasional police helicopter above our heads. This pleases Stipe. He’s a supporter of the protest; in fact he’s just released his first solo single, Your Capricious Soul, with a pay-as-much-as-you-like price tag, all monies going to Extinction Rebellion.“I mean,” he says, “I came into London today, and I can’t think of a better excuse to be late for a meeting than a bunch of people who are literally looking at the end of us – and we’re taking a bunch of Collapse
The big picture: Manchester captured in the rain evokes Lowry
1 DAY AGO - August 2019: the heavens open and Simon Buckley snaps the city in a summer downpourThere is a Expand
1 DAY AGO - August 2019: the heavens open and Simon Buckley snaps the city in a summer downpourThere is a narrow window during which Simon Buckley likes to photograph his surroundings: the handful of minutes in which night becomes day and day becomes night. Dawn and dusk provide the backdrop to his ongoing Not Quite Light project, a study of transition in the environment around us, capturing the change of the old into the new. “The idea of the half-light,” he says, “translates into many ideas: those memories that aren’t quite full in our brains, dreams you only half-remember.”On an August evening earlier this year, the Salford-based artist found himself sheltering from a downpour in central Manchester – “It was really bouncing off the pavements” – and was drawn to the beauty of the scene around him. Stepping out of the dry and on to the bridge overlooking Deansgate station, he managed to take five or six photos on his iPhone 6s before the water stopped his finger working on the screen. Continue Collapse
Flickr Triples Display Size of Pro Photos to 6K
1 DAY AGO - Flickr has announced that it’s tripling the maximum display size for Pro members’ Expand
1 DAY AGO - Flickr has announced that it’s tripling the maximum display size for Pro members’ photos, increasing it from 2048 pixels on the long end to 6144 pixels, or 6K resolution. Tripling the long edge is a huge increase in resolution — a photo that was displayed at a resolution of 3 megapixels before (e.g. 2048×1534) will […] Collapse
Titian expert says lauded painting is not by the master
1 DAY AGO - Top art historians clash over authenticity of Apsley House treasureA painting thought to be by Expand
1 DAY AGO - Top art historians clash over authenticity of Apsley House treasureA painting thought to be by Titian, which will be included in a touring exhibition to begin at the National Gallery in London next March, has been dismissed as a “dud” by a leading art historian.Professor Charles Hope, a Titian expert, told the Observer that The Danaë, an early 1550s picture on a mythological subject, is “a later pastiche” and should be downgraded from being attributed to the 16th-century Italian master to that of a minor hand. Continue reading... Collapse
20 photographs of the week
2 DAYS AGO - Turkey’s military offensive against Kurdish forces, the aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis, and Eliud Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Turkey’s military offensive against Kurdish forces, the aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis, and Eliud Kipchoge breaking the two-hour marathon barrier – the past seven days, as captured by the world’s best photojournalists Continue reading... Collapse
Cruise Passenger Banned for Life After Posing for Dangerous Photo on Her Balcony’s Railing
2 DAYS AGO - A Royal Caribbean cruise line passenger has been banned from the company’s cruises for life Expand
2 DAYS AGO - A Royal Caribbean cruise line passenger has been banned from the company’s cruises for life after she climbed onto the railing of her room’s balcony to pose for a dangerous photo in front of the ocean. We’ve seen our fair share of dangerous selfies and photo shoots, but this stunt made international headlines today thanks, […] Collapse
Razer’s Top of the Line Photo and Video Editing Laptop is Cheaper than Expected
2 DAYS AGO - If you’re looking to pick up one of the (if not the) best photo and video editing laptops on Expand
2 DAYS AGO - If you’re looking to pick up one of the (if not the) best photo and video editing laptops on the market, and your wallet is trembling at the prospect, today is a day for good news: Razer has revealed the pricing for its top-of-the-line Blade 15 Studio Edition “creative workstation,” and it’s more affordable than […] Collapse
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Welcome to Manc-hattan: how the city sold its soul for luxury skyscrapers
6 HRS AGO - Giant towers are sprouting up all over Manchester. But how will sky lounges and penthouse olive Expand
6 HRS AGO - Giant towers are sprouting up all over Manchester. But how will sky lounges and penthouse olive groves help the city’s rocketing homelessness problem?‘Hell upon Earth” is how Friedrich Engels described Manchester’s Angel Meadow. This violent, squalid, disease-ridden district was one of the worst slums the revolutionary German thinker encountered on his tour of Victorian England. Everything about the place, he wrote in 1844, “arouses horror and indignation”.Visiting today, he might be tempted to use the same words, for very different reasons. On either side of the leafy park, which undulates over the graves of 40,000 Victorian paupers, the bulky concrete frames of new apartment blocks are beginning to rise. They will ultimately become 17- and 22-storey slabs that will in turn be dwarfed by a 41-storey tower, all surrounding the park with a glacial wall of “ultra-sleek urban homes”. And not a single one affordable.This is MeadowSide, a £200m development by the Far East Consortium, a Collapse
Semi-naked activists protest National Portrait Gallery's links to BP
18 HRS AGO - Protesters from Extinction Rebellion and other groups drenched themselves in fake oilSemi-naked Expand
18 HRS AGO - Protesters from Extinction Rebellion and other groups drenched themselves in fake oilSemi-naked environmental campaigners have been drenched in fake oil at the National Portrait Gallery to protest against its sponsorship by BP.Activists from Extinction Rebellion, BP or Not BP? and Culture Unstained assumed the foetal position while others poured the “oil” on their nude bodies in the Ondaatje Wing main hall, where a collection of pieces sponsored by BP is on display. Continue reading... Collapse
Photography in the digital age by Michael Stipe - in pictures
1 DAY AGO - Post-REM, Michael Stipe has settled into life as a visual artist. He talks us through some of the Expand
1 DAY AGO - Post-REM, Michael Stipe has settled into life as a visual artist. He talks us through some of the key images from his new photography bookMiranda Sawyer interviews Michael Stipe: ‘I’m not on the spectrum, but I do think differently’Our Interference Times: A Visual Record by Michael Stipe with Douglas Coupland is published by Damiani (£45) Continue reading... Collapse
Urban warrior in Nikes and a hoodie leads charge against white orthodoxy
1 DAY AGO - Rumors of War, by the black artist Kehinde Wiley, will soon move to the heart of the Confederacy. Expand
1 DAY AGO - Rumors of War, by the black artist Kehinde Wiley, will soon move to the heart of the Confederacy. He is not alone in his challenge“It’s a lot to be asked, to pledge allegiance to a country, to a world, that keeps you invisible.” Related: Turbine Hall artist Kara Walker: 'Apparently, the only thing I am is black' Continue reading... Collapse
Nam June Paik review – encounters with a true visionary
1 DAY AGO - Tate Modern, LondonA teeming retrospective of the Korean-American artist spans half a century, Expand
1 DAY AGO - Tate Modern, LondonA teeming retrospective of the Korean-American artist spans half a century, from Fluxus and Nixon to Bowie and MTVTate Modern leans into its avant garde edge with this big, pleasurable sweep through Korean-born international artist Nam June Paik’s career. Paik was born in 1932 and died in 2006. Living and working in Japan, Germany and the US, he explored music, film, performance, theatre and the media in a long career notable for his collaborations with longstanding pals including Joseph Beuys, musician John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham.Initially, Paik was interested in chance, malfunction and accidental breakage. In the 1960s he doctored old pianos so that playing them would result in clanking and dud notes, while in Zen for Wind in 1963 he strings random objects from a plank so hitting them produces different sounds. These early works have a charming hint of Pritt Stick, yellowing paper and unintended rust, yet even so there are dashes of sophisticated Collapse
Restored to glory: How a 16th-century nun regained her place in art history
1 DAY AGO - Confined to a monastery by her parents, Plautilla Nelli became one of the Renaissance’s few female Expand
1 DAY AGO - Confined to a monastery by her parents, Plautilla Nelli became one of the Renaissance’s few female artists. Her forgotten masterpiece, The Last Supper, has now been resurrectedIn a city dripping with Renaissance jewels, the restored Last Supper unveiled last week looks at first glance like just another masterpiece by one of the great artists of the 16th century.Which it is. But look a little closer, and you notice one astonishing detail – the name on the canvas. The artist who signed it was female. She was Plautilla Nelli: a contemporary of Michelangelo, Titian and Tintoretto; a native of Florence who spent her entire life in the city in which her greatest work has now been rediscovered; a woman who managed to paint at a time when women were effectively forbidden from doing so; and a nun. Continue reading... Collapse
Biggest ever Leonardo da Vinci exhibition to open in Paris
2 DAYS AGO - Louvre will host works of Italian artist after long-running political spats and legal battles The Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Louvre will host works of Italian artist after long-running political spats and legal battles The most important blockbuster art show in Paris for half a century took 10 years to prepare and was nearly thwarted by the worst diplomatic standoff between Italy and France since the second world war. With days to go before the opening, there is still no sign of whether one of the major works will appear.The Louvre’s vast Leonardo da Vinci exhibition to mark 500 years since the death of the Italian Renaissance master will finally open next week as the world’s most-visited museum prepares to handle a huge influx of visitors. Continue reading... Collapse
Living colour: the intricacy and beauty of budgies – in pictures
2 DAYS AGO - Leila Jeffreys started photographing birds in 2008. In this series she takes the birds out of Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Leila Jeffreys started photographing birds in 2008. In this series she takes the birds out of their natural habitat, and by stripping the environment back to the bare minimum and using neutral backgrounds she shows the intricacy and beauty of the feathered creatures. Her latest exhibition, High Society, is on at the the Olsen Gallery, Woollahra, Sydney from 16 October until 9 November• You can vote for the budgie in the Guardian/Bird Life Australia 2019 bird of the year poll from 28 November Continue reading... Collapse
Copulation at its fruitiest – David Hockney, Alan Davie, Christina Quarles review
2 DAYS AGO - Hepworth Gallery, WakefieldAn obsession with writhing bodies is the theme in this lovely show full Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Hepworth Gallery, WakefieldAn obsession with writhing bodies is the theme in this lovely show full of signs of cross-fertilisationCocks, bums, breasts, bits of bodies and vagrant abstract symbols float about in two related painting exhibitions at the Hepworth. Pairing early works by the late Scottish painter Alan Davie (1920-2014) and David Hockney, the gallery sets out to acknowledge Davie’s influence on the younger Hockney, who took what he needed from the older artist and moved on, while Davie was still struggling to escape, most notably from Jackson Pollock. A second, attendant exhibition at the Hepworth, of American painter Christina Quarles, allows us to look at her work in the light of Hockney.Davie’s earlier work was altogether too clamorous, clogged and beefy, and only by ditching all those layers of mark-making did he get anywhere close to the lightness and airy spaces of the best of Pollock’s all-over paintings. At times Davie’s art took a Pollock turn, a Miró turn, a Sam Collapse
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Halloween doggy style: the Tompkins Square Parade - in pictures
13 HRS AGO - Canine companions in cute and creative costumes took part in the annual Halloween dog parade in Expand
13 HRS AGO - Canine companions in cute and creative costumes took part in the annual Halloween dog parade in Manhattan Continue reading... Collapse
Silver Skaters: the rise of skateboarding in California – in pictures
20 HRS AGO - Legendary skateboard photographer Hugh Holland has published a book of previously unseen images Expand
20 HRS AGO - Legendary skateboard photographer Hugh Holland has published a book of previously unseen images capturing the growth of the skateboarding craze in California. From car ramps to empty pools, Silver Skaters Seventies published by Abrams & Chronicle Books captures the exhilarating rise of skate culture Continue reading... Collapse
Moving to Mars review – a rendezvous with the red planet
1 DAY AGO - Design Museum, LondonThis fascinating show offers close encounters with an actual Mars rover, Expand
1 DAY AGO - Design Museum, LondonThis fascinating show offers close encounters with an actual Mars rover, footage from the planet’s surface – and ambitious plans for inhabiting it, should the need arise…On the surface of Mars, temperatures average about -60C. The thin atmosphere, containing almost no oxygen, is unbreathable. Intense solar radiation, were you to survive the cold and asphyxiation, would be lethal. It would take seven months and billions of pounds to get there. Growing enough food on the red planet to live off would be, to put it mildly, difficult, so you’d have to bring it with you.All of which makes the idea, once expressed by Stephen Hawking and now Elon Musk, that humanity might look to Mars as a planet B if things get really bad here terrifying. It implies that conditions on Earth would actually have to be worse than that unappealing Martian atmospheric cocktail. In which situation only an elite handful would make the escape, a handful that would include (in the imagination, Collapse
Textile art inspired by vintage photographs of African Americans – in pictures
1 DAY AGO - Since 2017, New Jersey artist Bisa Butler has been creating a “quilted fabric album”: large Expand
1 DAY AGO - Since 2017, New Jersey artist Bisa Butler has been creating a “quilted fabric album”: large textile portraits drawn from old black-and-white photographs; her most recent series is inspired by images of African Americans taken by the government during the second world war. The materials she uses – kente cloths and other traditional African fabrics – nod to African American heritage, including Butler’s own as an American of Ghanaian descent.See more of Butler’s work on Instagram and at Claire Oliver Gallery Continue reading... Collapse
iPhone Has Free Unlimited Original Quality Storage on Google Photos — Pixel 4 Doesn’t
1 DAY AGO - When the Google Pixel 4 was announced this week, it was revealed that it would be the first Pixel Expand
1 DAY AGO - When the Google Pixel 4 was announced this week, it was revealed that it would be the first Pixel phone to not provide all users with free unlimited original-quality backups on Google Photos. But in a strange twist, thanks to a “loophole,” owners of newer iPhone models do get free unlimited original-quality storage in the […] Collapse
Tunnel of love: a wartime Nissen hut brought to life
2 DAYS AGO - When a three-generation family moved to a smallholding in Wales, they reimagined an old military Expand
2 DAYS AGO - When a three-generation family moved to a smallholding in Wales, they reimagined an old military shelter as a stylish second spaceA rusting wartime Nissen hut was not in the gameplan when architect Damon Webb moved from Brighton to mid-Wales with his daughter and her family four years ago. Tired of the fast pace and density of people where he lived, Webb, 52, was searching for an alternative. He wanted space to keep bees and chickens, and to pursue his interests in permaculture, self-sufficiency and the humane rearing of animals. Continue reading... Collapse
One of the Marines in Iconic Iwo Jima Photo Has Been Misidentified for Over 70 Years
2 DAYS AGO - The Marine Corps has confirmed that one of the six marines in the iconic photograph “Flag Expand
2 DAYS AGO - The Marine Corps has confirmed that one of the six marines in the iconic photograph “Flag Raising on Iwo Jima” has been misidentified for over 70 years. The man who was thought to be Pfc Rene Gagnon was, in fact, Cpl Harold “Pie” Keller. The photograph, captured on February 23rd, 1945 by photographer Joe Rosenthal, […] Collapse
Polixeni Papapetrou: photographing Olympia, daughter and muse – in pictures
2 DAYS AGO - Over her 20-year career, the Australian photographer Polixeni Papapetrou explored the Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Over her 20-year career, the Australian photographer Polixeni Papapetrou explored the representation of children and questions of identity. Her daughter Olympia Nelson, now 23, was the main subject of her work and Papapetrou photographed her in fantastical and theatrical settings. Now, a major new retrospective at the National Gallery of Victoria draws together Papapetrou’s depictions of her daughter over the years, until the artist’s death from cancer in 2018. Here, Nelson describes the experience of being her mother’s muse and what it was like creating those intriguing and magical works• Olympia: Photographs by Polixeni Papapetrou is showing at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, until 15 March 2020 Continue reading... Collapse
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