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Lucien Clergue is one of only three photographers to receive the French Legion of Honor award. (Henri Cartier-Bresson and André Kertész complete the triad.) Given this distinction, it’s quite astounding that a nascent private gallery like the Pierre Menard Gallery, at 10 Arrow St., would hold an extensive collection of his work. Yet the gallery’s exhibition of 84 of Clergue’s prints, on display through March 15, is notable for reasons other than its mere existence. The massive assembly at once reinforces and threatens Clergue?...
...accomplish this goal, all Fluxus objects are subtly altered from their industrial counterparts and are personally assembled.It is intention, and not medium, that separates Beuys from the Fluxus camp. This separation is evident immediately upon entering the “Multiple Strategies” exhibit. There is a photograph of Joseph Beuys, beside which hangs a work of his simply saying in bold, German print: “The Silence of Marcel Duchamp is Overrated.” Although Beuys employed the same ordinary materials for his art as the Fluxus artists and Duchamp, he held fast to the idea...
...workmanlike site, featuring the same photograph of the former undersecretary of defense for policy that the Pentagon used in his official bio before he left in 2005. "The 'Bush lied, people died' argument is not true," he asserts in bold-faced type at the top of his home page. He notes the Feb. 7 release of a Pentagon inspector general's report that has "spawned a lot of inaccurate commentary by politicians and misreporting by journalists...
WHAT'S THE CRAZIEST THING IN YOUR COLLECTION? Are you ready for this? It's called the Airborne Snotty vase. It's by Marcel Wanders. He used a special camera to photograph a sneeze. So the vase is a sneeze. When I first saw it, I thought it was the weirdest, creepiest thing...
...campus and to counter what its members see as social pressure to have sex. At 88 members, their Facebook group (not to be confused with the group “I’m Saving Myself for Wild, Passionate, Awkward Honeymoon Sex”) is illustrated by a photograph of a blooming white rose, as chaste and pure as our Puritan founders would have expected their brides...