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From the untidy, artist-infested neighborhood of Montparnasse stepped an unlikely savior: Eugène Atget. A failed actor and painter then pushing 40, he had picked up a camera a few years earlier and started a meager trade providing stock photographs to artists. Over the next 30 years, Atget systematically captured what he called "the old Paris" in some 10,000 photos of remarkable intelligence and poignancy. In the process, he helped transform photography into a serious art form, becoming one of its founding giants...
...list, so I gathered a group of thinkers to put together the Alt TIME 100, a list of people who matter to the rest of us. Read the entire list at time.com/alt100 and decide for yourself which is better: ours or the one that doesn't include tattoo artist Mr. Cartoon...
...nerds, but they weren't even good at it. That's when I ordered a couple of bottles of wine, and the names started flying. The Maloof brothers were instantly agreed upon, since their family owns the Palms hotel in Las Vegas. Body painter Mark Frazier was the artist of choice. Michael Jordan, though he retired four years ago, made the list because, as many of the panelists attested, when you're at a party with him, "Jordan buys...
...Paris Hilton have collided, and the results aren't pretty. New York City artist Daniel Edwards, creator of a similarly taste-free Britney-giving-birth statue, has created Paris Hilton Autopsy, complete with removable organs. Blogsite DEFAMER wonders if the heiress "is presently savoring the prospects of long lines of East Coast [art] connoisseurs waiting patiently for their turn to handle her petrified innards." SCORE...
...Orchestra to the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra—but he is also about to make his debut this summer with the prestigious New York Philharmonic. With these impressive accomplishments under his belt, Jackiw was an easy choice for the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts. The award recognizes exceptional artistic talent and is sponsored by the Office of the Arts (OFA). “It’s awesome. It’s an honor to be recognized by Harvard,” Jackiw says. “It’s also an honor to be included...