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fait accompli (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Gerrit Lansing reads at the BPC, Sunday November 29, 4 pm As you know doubt know, if you have been reading this blog over the years, I am excessively fond of temporal convergences, coincidences, and the like. The early years of fait accompli consisted of a conscious effort to create synchronicities by blogging from my journals and selecting moments that felt similar to those in the here and now. There...
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Luxist (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Surrealist, modern and postwar pieces will go under the gavel next week at the Christie's Impressioniste et Moderne auction in Paris . More than 140 lots will be offered on December 1, 2009, with presale estimates ranging from $6 million to $9 million. Among the artists represented in the auction, which consists of the Lefebvre-Foinet collection, are Alberto Giacometti, Max Ernst , Henri Matisse and...
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gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Metamorphosis Victorianus: Modern Collage, Victorian Engravings & Nostalgia at Ubu Gallery in New York, NY. "...Max Ernst (1891-1976), with such work as his shocking and seminal illustrated collage-novel, La Femme 100 têtes (1929), influenced an entire wave of artists who looked towards the Surrealist and his use of 19th Century engravings as a point of departure within their own work...
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Daddy's Roses (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
We are in Venice Italy today, November 6, 2009. We arrived, after an all-night flight from Atlanta via JFK in New York, at 9:45 this morning. Our ship will sail at 1:00 PM tomorrow. Here is information about Venice that I found before we left Atlanta. Average Temperature during the month of Nov: 39-52 Based on my internet-site reading, the following are the Top Ten Things to See in Venice. Canal Grande...
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infinite thØught (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
This picture has nothing to do with Firestone. I just liked it Can anyone think of a good image for the cover of a collection of essays on Firestone? the collection is rather wonderfully entitled The Further Adventures of the Dialectic of Sex . It's a tricky one...I've been thinking along the lines of the following, but not sure if any of these are close. I've tried to find things along the lines of...
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3:AM Magazine (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Moving to Paris, Gascoyne was welcomed with open arms into the Surrealist group, befriending the painters Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy and René Magritte. He responded in kind by writing A Short Survey of Surrealism which introduced many in England to the activities of those strange foreigners over the water with their melting clocks, mannequins and pipes that weren’t pipes....
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baithak (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
baithak has an aura. sheesha, fireplace, bulging bookshelves, rugs, divan takias and more...
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Castle in the Air (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Things are a bit surreal around the store today as we spend time in the gallery preparing for tonight's reception of Picturing Childhood . But the children in the antique photographs aren't the only ones living in a sepia-toned fantasy land. The hawkish gentleman and his catty companion in our window display stepped straight out of such a world. Here are the cards that inspired our window. They were...
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Castle in the Air (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
If you venture past Castle in the Air this week, you'll notice that a pair of odd animals have set up a little bar in the front window. It seems that they slipped out from the pictures on the new Max Ernst greeting cards we're carrying. (More on Max soon.) A feline femme fatale? And who is her dapper companion? They must be close, because they're sharing the most intriguing drinks. Maybe they'll offer...
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Streatham & Brixton Chess Club (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
Chess in Art XIII link featured the only sculpture in the series: Max Ernst’s “The King playing with his Queen” of 1944. Allusions abound: a hieratic Lord and Protector; a mythic Totem, awesome; a zodiacal Taurus, jealous and possessive; the Minotaur, half-man, half-bull and, as satyrised by Picasso, a bit of old goat........ Minotaur Caressant une Dormeuse (From La Suite Vollard)...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
WURTH.- The forthcoming exhibition at the Kunsthalle Würth will be the first-ever presentation of all the Max Ernst works in the Würth Collection . The core of the Ernst holdings is a unique collection of books and prints, which in recent years have been supplemented by considerable numbers of oil paintings, sculptures, works on paper, original collages, drawings and frottages. The resulting...
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Objects-Building-Situations (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
Greece hit the polls today to chose from the usual ping-pong of New Democracy or PASOK. Ta Nea on-line used this photo as its headline "elections proceed without problems." The image is conceptually rich, like a Max Ernst surrealist bird-machine. The booths hang from the wall like wet coats, the curtain's blue wings take flight. The complimentary yellow bags under the curtain's skirt are...
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Reverent & Free (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
The Eye of Silence - Max Ernst, 1943-44. ...and some reading if you're inclined. Wild Like the Taliban Afghanistan: NATO's Graveyard? What's Next For Canada in Afghanistan?
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Frederick Sommer (1905-1999) crafted a vision inflected by Surrealist ideas, elements of surprise and chance, and an acute sense of design. He experimented with many forms of art while making photography his primary endeavor. The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents Frederick Sommer Photographs, a survey of his art over five decades, with some 40 photographs shown along with drawings...
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