Catégorie : Art and Music

What Are Francisco Goya’s Best Works? Four Curators Discuss Major Pieces by the Spanish Artist

What Are Francisco Goya’s Best Works? Four Curators Discuss Major Pieces by the Spanish Artist

Curators from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, and other institutions reveal their favorite works by Goya.

Source: www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/francisco-goya-best-works-1234590055/francisco-goya-friar-pedro-shoots-el-maragato-as-his-horse-runs-off-ca-1806/

Yoko Ono launches billboards to highlight environmental crisis

Yoko Ono launches billboards to highlight environmental crisis

The artist’s ‘I Love You Earth’ artworks debuted across the UK for Earth Day

Source: www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/52575/1/yoko-ono-launches-billboards-to-highlight-environmental-crisis-i-love-you-earth

Photojournalist Mary Ellen Mark in 5 cult images

Photojournalist Mary Ellen Mark in 5 cult images

Steidl publishers are dedicating a very beautiful book to the American journalist Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015), who worked for years with the prestigious Magnum agency, probing the darkest corners of society, from the bedrooms of prostitutes in Bombay to the meetings of the Ku Klux Klan and the film set of « Apocalypse Now ». Six hundred of her best shots can now be found in « The Book of Everything », edited by the photographer’s own husband. Raw, often provocative Numéro tells the story behind the images.

Source: www.numero.com

Tout savoir pour construire et isoler une maison container

Tout savoir pour construire et isoler une maison container – Elle Décoration

Ovni dans le paysage, les maisons container interpellent les uns autant qu’elles séduisent les autres. Loin des idées reçues, ces constructions originales s’adaptent à nos besoins passant de cabanes à maison familiale ou résidences universitaires en un tour de main, ou presque. Démonstration.

Source: www.elle.fr

Parental Advisory: the secret history of music’s most controversial logo

Parental Advisory: the secret history of music’s most controversial logo

Before becoming the standard bearer for scandalous lyrics, the “Parental Advisory: Explicit Content” logo had long been the subject of debate in the USA. In the 1980s, the American Senate was the backdrop for a standoff between pious hypocrites and rock stars in vests. In the hotseat: rock porn and the advocacy of drugs. And the cast of this improbable story: Prince, Tipper Gore, Daniel Snider, NWA, Madonna, Drake and even Cindy Lauper.

Source: www.numero.com

Interview with Paola Antonelli, the woman who displays artworks in airports

Interview with Paola Antonelli, the woman who displays artworks in airports

Italian-born Paola Antonelli has been a senior curator in the department of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York since 1994. Over nearly three decades, she has been on a mission to promote a broad understanding of design, from video games to 3D-printed objects, and led MoMA’s acquisition of the @ symbol, designed by Ray Tomlinson in 1971.

Source: www.numero.com

Experience the Magic of Travel Through Filmmaker Paul Herrmann’s Dreamy New Magazine

Experience the Magic of Travel Through Filmmaker Paul Herrmann’s Dreamy New Magazine

The 22-year-old German filmmaker has just wrapped up a years-in-the-making project, a personal snapshot diary of the places and people he’s seen and met over the past five years.

Source: www.vogue.com

« Beyond Walls » by SAYPE in Cape Town, South Africa

« Beyond Walls » by SAYPE in Cape Town, South Africa

In the current context of the COVID-19 pandemic, as South Africa is in the international spotlight, French-Swiss artist Saype chooses to present a fraternal vision in three neighbourhoods in Sea Point, in the city of Cape Town. The current crisis reinforces Saype’s optimistic will to present these

Source: streetartnews.net

NFTs are Creating the Opposite of Everything They’re Meant to Fix

NFTs are Creating the Opposite of Everything They’re Meant to Fix

NFTs are not democratizing art, they have not given artists ways to earn money, and they are not creating more transparency in the art world. So, what are they doing?

Source: www.artnews.com

2020 Was the Worst Year Ever. These Americans Are Desperate to Make Its Lessons Last

2020 Was the Worst Year Ever. These Americans Are Desperate to Make Its Lessons Last.

As the pandemic stalked us and racial injustice awoke us, journalist Rita Omokha traveled the country, listening for unheard voices.

Source: www.elle.com

Collector Robert Ellison Is Transforming the Way Ceramics Are Seen at the Met and the World Over

Collector Robert Ellison Is Transforming the Way Ceramics Are Seen at the Met and the World Over

The 88-year-old collector figures in the new exhibition and book “Shapes From Out of Nowhere.”

Source: www.artnews.com

Banksy in Reading, UK

Banksy in Reading, UK

Banksy seems to be back with a brand new artwork that just appeared on Reading prison in the United Kingdom.The stencil shows a man using knotted bedsheets to « escape » from the prison. The man could eventually be the famed writer Oscar Wilde, who did spend some time in the prison between 1895 an

Source: streetartnews.net

The day Milton Glaser created the “I Love New York” logo in the back of a taxicab

The day Milton Glaser created the “I Love New York” logo in the back of a taxicab

On June 26th, the graphic designer and artistic director Milton Glaser passed away at the age of 91. We look back at the history of the “I Love New York” logo, one of his most famous creations that became a veritable emblem of American popular culture.

Source: www.numero.com