Kate Moss for Alexander McQueen
RIP Alexander McQueen. You’re vision will never be duplicated.
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hyde or die
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Laura Vere-Hodge of Christies walks along a gallery containing Picasso’s “Femme et Fillettes” (L) and “Flag” by artist Jasper Johns at the auction house in London.
LONDON.- Christie’s is honored to announce that it will offer at auction this spring in New York major works from the collection of the late Michael Crichton. Best-selling author and screenwriter, film director and producer, Crichton is renowned for his terrifying and sometimes controversial scientific thrillers such as The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, Timeline, The Lost World, Rising Sun, and State of Fear, and for creating the television series ER.
Crichton is also acknowledged as a leading authority on the American artist Jasper Johns.…
Early in his career, Crichton developed a keen interest in contemporary art and friendships with David Hockney (who made a portrait of Crichton in 1976), Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg and Claes Oldenburg. In the 1970s, Crichton also became a close friend and an avid collector of Jasper Johns. He was asked by Johns to write the catalogue for his major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in 1977. This publication and its revised and expanded edition are considered one of the preeminent studies on America’s foremost living artist. via…
Andrew Wyeth Ring Road, 1985
The Dayton Art Institute has placed on view Ring Road in memoriam of the late artist.
It is with great sadness that I share the news of Sam Haskin’s death. I was lucky enough to spend some time with legendary photographer recently (recap here), and was just as enamored with his stories as I’ve always been with his work. Haskins had a sharp eye and an even sharper tongue (proof). That said, I will forever cherish the copy of Fashion Etcetera that he gave me and choose to remember him as I met him - smiling. My thoughts go out to his family.
Inside the gallery, I was met by Pierce Jackson, Sam, and Sam’s son Ludwig. Pierce asked Sam to do a mic check, and a few numbers in, he paused and apologized. “I never used to sound this hoarse. It’s from the stroke,” he confided. He went on to say he thought he sounded foolish. I said he didn’t and joked that if he wanted to hear what foolish sounded like, he ought to listen to Pierce. It was a potshot, but it worked. Pierce offered a playful scowl, and Sam cracked a smile. The interview began. (via)
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Irving Penn Ballet Theater 1947
If you live in the Los Angeles area, the Getty has an exhibition of his up through January.
Left: Richard Prince Right: Patrick Cariou
Larry Gagosian and Richard Prince are still in trouble about this “copyright infringement” business, normally I would be for Cariou, but the Gagosian camp makes a good point…
In his response, Prince, a renowned appropriation artist who frequently uses others’ imagery in his work, argued that the photographs in Yes Rasta are not “‘strikingly original’ or ‘distinctive’ in nature”, and that his “transformative” uses of the photographs were “done in good faith and reflect established artistic practices”. via…
Here is the other thing, the Prince work isn’t that good. It is immature and poorly executed. The composition of the piece is sound (also based in someone else’s work) but the details are sloppy. I guess in the end everyone wins. Cariou get’s publicity for his original photographs along with some new fans who will fight with him against these thieves. Prince gets some publicity for his art as opposed to his associations (LVMH, James Frey) for the first time in a while. And Larry…well, he’s just being Larry. We don’t need to worry about Larry.
“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
— George Carlin
