Thursday 30 January 2020

Wednesday 29 January 2020

Tullio Crali

The Forces of the Bend, (Le forze della curva)
by Tullio Crali - 1930
Oil on canvas

Monday 27 January 2020

Primo Levi


Primo Michele Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer. He was the author of several books, novels, collections of short stories, essays, and poems. His best-known works include If This Is a Man (1947, published as Survival in Auschwitz in the United States), his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland; and The Periodic Table (1975), linked to qualities of the elements, which the Royal Institution named the best science book ever written. (Wikipedia)

Sunday 26 January 2020

Ella and Talia

Ella and Talia II, Northern Transvaal
(now Limpopo Province), South Africa, 2003
Photograph: Nadav Kander

Friday 24 January 2020

Two Female Portraits

Femme à la voilette (Woman in veil) 1891
Oil on canvas

Lissy, 1931
Watercolour and pencil on paper

Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler was a German painter of the avant-garde whose works were banned as "degenerate art", and in some cases destroyed, by the Third Reich. She was murdered in a former psychiatric institution at Sonnenstein castle in Pirna under Action T4, a forced euthanasia program of Nazi Germany. (Wikipedia)

Thursday 23 January 2020

The Virginians


Children of construction workers in trailer camp. Portsmouth, Virginia. Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration, March 1941. (Shorpy)

Wednesday 22 January 2020

David Attenborough

Naturalist David Attenborough I, London, England
Photograph: Nadav Kander - 2012


A Venezuelan Troupial (Icterus icterus) photographed on the west coast of Curacao, 26 February 2013. Photograph: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen

Tuesday 21 January 2020

Monday 20 January 2020

Party

Benita Douglas-Robertson above Matt Gomez
at the Blizzard Ball, London Hilton, 1981-89
Photograph: Dafydd Jones
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print

Charlotte Stockdale, Vintage, ca.1985
Photograph: Dafydd Jones
Gelatin Silver Print

Saturday 18 January 2020

Recent Art

Bright Yellow House on Water, 2018
Art work by James Casebere
Pigment print

Future airmen, 2008
by Rostislav Lebedev
Silkscreen

Friday 17 January 2020

Thursday 16 January 2020

Wednesday 15 January 2020

Tuesday 14 January 2020

Friday 10 January 2020

Daumier

The Hypochondriac, 1860-63
Oil on panel

The Imaginary Illness, ca.1860-62
Oil on panel

Thursday 9 January 2020

Christine & Mandy


Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies leave the Old Bailey after the first day of Stephen Ward’s trial in 1963. It was through Ward, an osteopath, that Keeler was introduced to Profumo. Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch Collection - CORB

Tuesday 7 January 2020

Irving Penn

Truman Capote, New York, 1948
Photograph: Irving Penn
Gelatin silver print

Marlene Dietrich, New York, 1948
Photograph: Irving Penn
Gelatin silver print

Monday 6 January 2020

The Dead Class


Die tote Klasse (The dead class) 1975. Installation, wooden floor, bench, tables, puppets, clothes, by Tadeusz Kantor. 150 x 150 x 300cm. 2007 acquired by PIN. Freunde der Pinakothek der Moderne e.V. Photo: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Sibylle Forster.

Saturday 4 January 2020

Friday 3 January 2020

José Sierra Ceramics

Untitled, 16th March, 2019
Stoneware, 24 x 21.5 x 17.5

Untitled, 20th January, 2019
Stoneware, 11 x 13.5 x 12
by Jose Sierra

Thursday 2 January 2020

Wednesday 1 January 2020

Adam & Eve

Adam and Eve pub in Hackney, London, 1976

Happy New Year Everyone