The intelligence and impartiality of this documentary about provocative fashion photographer Helmut Newton has changed the flattering tone that is achieved in many fashion films. The documentary now broadcasts on the Film Forum and Kino Marquee includes interviews with some of his favorite characters such as Grace Jones, Claudia Schiffer and Isabella Rouse. Isabella Rossellini believes in the film he…

Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) was a second generation postwar abstract painter. His innovative impregnation technique consisted of pouring thinned paint directly onto an unprimed canvas. By inventing the technique of soaking stains he expanded the possibilities of abstraction and sometimes referred to figuration. In 1952, Frankenthaler Mountains and Sea created a foundational and revolutionary American abstraction painting – The mountains and…

Born in Brooklyn in 1962, he filmed Eclipse of the Moths and the previous series of photographs about Berkshire in the summer, when the shadow is drawing on. Conveniently he has resigned from teaching duties at Yale University, where he is the director of the Graduate School of Photography. He graduated from the Yale School of the Arts in 1988…

After graduating from Washington High School in 1910, Wood enrolled in the Handicraft Guild, a fully women-run arts school in Minneapolis (now a major collective of artists in the city) between 1930 and 1934 Wood wrote many of the works for which he is best known: Arnold Coming of Age (1930), Victorian Survival (1931) and Appreciation (1931), Daughters of the…

Richter has been working on creating new images by dragging and dropping fresh paint over a photograph since 1989. In his abstract paintings, Richter creates cumulative layers of unrepresentative paint from large stripes of base color on canvas, blending and scraping, to hide the previous layers of paint and expose them. In the mid-1980s, Richter began using a homemade palette…

Sanders was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, on June 3, 1906 in the house number 6 of the Petrovsky Island, had an older brother, actor Tom Conway, who died in 1967, and a younger sister, Margaret, and worked for a time in the British theater before making his film debut in Love, Life and Laughter in 1934, and appeared in…

The exhibition will be touring in 2017-18 to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Humlebek. In 2011, the New Museum opened in New York a retrospective of Kondo’s mid-career entitled “Mental Conditions”, which takes place throughout the space of both London galleries and focuses exclusively on the work of George Condo, a key figure in contemporary American painting. The exhibition…

The combination of reason and dirt is composed of black inverted parallel U shapes, which contain stripes separated by thin unpainted lines. In 1959, Stella created a series of black paintings in which the stripes of black paint are separated by thin and precise stripes of bare canvas. In an era when modern painting relied on wild posture, heavy ink…

The violence seen by Goya during the Spanish War of Independence (1808-1814) inspired him to create a series of prints entitled “The Disasters of War” and perhaps his most famous painting “Execution of the Defenders of Madrid on May 3, 1808”, of which 80 were first published in 1863. In 1824, Goya emigrated to Bordeaux, France where he lived until…

After finishing 2nd in 1952 at the 9th National Salon of Artists in Bogota, Botero traveled to Madrid to study the works of old masters such as Tintoretto, Titian, Goya and Velazquez at the Prado Museum and toured Italy on his motorcycle to see fifteenth-century Renaissance frescoes. In 1955, Botero moved to Mexico City and firsthand became familiar with the…