All Things Art & Photography
Stacey Baker is a photo editor and writes for the NY Times blog The Sixth Floor. She also has a thing for legs. She has photographed over 300 of them for her project she calls Citilegs and they are endlessly astounding…..
There is also an interview with here at the Daily Mail here.
All photos ©Stacy Baker via http://citilegs.com
Stacy Baker: Citilegs
Ryan Adams is on tour and heading to Philly for the The XPoNential Music Festival. Can’t get enough of this guy as his songs just never seem to grow old…
Here he is solo on KCRW playing Winding Wheel.
I have an entire page of Live Ryan on this blog here.
Music Break: Ryan Adams
Can an untrained person paint a Vermeer?
This is a wonderful and quirky film about a very smart inventor with a truly unique Johannes Vermeer obsession. Maybe one of the best documentaries concerning art and optics (and especially the way the lens and eventually photography has completely changed painting and drawing forever). David Hockney is consulted in this film because of his brilliant book Secret Knowledge which explores how optics changed painting forever (and thus dispelling most of the mythical “great painters” in art history).
Film Review: Tim’s Vermeer
If there was any artist who makes me think (musically) of a young David Byrne it’s this girl Merrill Garbus who is more musically talented than any human should be allowed to be…
Music Break: tUnE-yArDs
Most are familiar with the incredible photographic tableaux’s of Joel Peter Witkin but until this exhibition I did not know there was an equally talented yet estranged twin brother named Jerome Witkin. Take a few minutes and soak in the exhibition of a unique moment in the history of art; Separated twin artists reunited for the first time over 70 years later.
(Check out the video….Very interesting to see how their work (which is equally visionary in many respects) compares and contrasts).
Las Meninas, 1987. Gelatin Silver Print, 30 x 40 inches
©Joel-Peter Witkin & Courtesy of Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles
Twin Visions: Jerome Witkin & Joel-Peter Witkin
An historic exhibition united two celebrated artists – identical twin brothers – Jerome Witkin & Joel-Peter Witkin
March 1, 2014 at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Los Angeles.
Jerome Witkin and Joel-Peter Witkin are acknowledged as two of the greatest contemporary artists in their respective genres. Jerome Witkin is a painter cited by critics and curators as the finest narrative contemporary artist. Joel-Peter Witkin is equally regarded as a master of his genre – a groundbreaking photographer famous for masterfully conjuring his uniquely surreal images. These identical twin brothers, artistically estranged, have enjoyed remarkable success during their respective careers spanning more than fifty years, have never exhibited together. Until now.
©Jerome Witkin
THE GERMAN GIRL, 1997
Oil on Canvas
Courtesy of Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles
JOEL-PETER WITKIN & JEROME WITKIN : TWIN VISIONS