All Things Art & Photography
When I first heard this song on the radio I thought “older mature singer”. But seeing her you can’t help but think how someone so young can sound so restrained in her singing (which is way beyond her years). Another old soul comes into the spotlight and if she keeps this up she might, just one day, be the voice of her generation.
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Music Break: London Grammar sings Hey Now [Live]
Holland Cotter won a Pulitzer for his reporting on the art world and is one of the voices more should listen to when it comes to the overreaching influence of money on how and why art is made today.
…”Visit art schools or galleries, and you get the impression that a substantial portion of the art world is content to serve as support staff to a global ruling class. The reality is that, directly or indirectly, in large ways and small, the current market system is shaping every aspect of art in the city: not just how artists live, but also what kind of art is made, and how art is presented in the media and in museums”…
…”If archaeologists of the future unearthed the Museum of Modern Art as it exists today, they would have to assume that Modernism was a purely European and North American invention. They would be wrong. Modernism was, and is, an international phenomenon, happening in different ways, on different timetables, for different reasons in Africa, Asia, Australia and South America. Why aren’t museums telling that story? Because it doesn’t sell. Why doesn’t it sell? Because it’s unfamiliar. Why is it unfamiliar? Because museums, with their eyes glued to box office, aren’t telling the story”…
via Lost in the Gallery-Industrial Complex Holland Cotter Looks at Money in Art – NYTimes.com.
“…His current exhibition, “Thirty-Five / 35 Pictures,” at the 339 Gallery in Philadelphia features one photograph from each year for the past 35 years. “The challenge for an exhibition that tries to summarize David Graham’s work is the very scope and scale that make it so exceptional. Where to begin? What to include? How to knit together this considerable photographic oeuvre in a coherent manner without resorting to an exhibition comprised of the best-known pictures? ‘Thirty-Five Years / 35 Pictures’ does feature well-known images, but we imposed the one-picture-per-year strategy to both gain control over the work and to force decisions that we might not typically make. And so it has; given that it’s a single picture from each year, many classic pictures had to be let go in favor of others that have received less attention over time. Sad as we were to lose some images, this approach has brought forward several outstanding and under-appreciated ones; it has also yielded interesting new relationships among pictures that have never found themselves near each other (either in exhibitions or books). Ultimately, we’ve tried to at least hint at the depth and breadth of this exceptional chronicle of America…”Courtesy Gallery 339. “Thirty-Five / 35 Pictures” opens Friday, January 17 with an artist’s reception from 6:00 – 8:00 pm, and runs through March 15, 2014.via: pdnonline.com
Exhibition: David Graham: Thiry-Five Years / 35 Pictures
There has been a lot of press regarding a new movie based on the book Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell who was the lone Seal team member to survive the biggest loss of Navy Seal soldiers (19) in one day since WW2. Meet Balazs Gardi an embedded photographer in Afghanistan who just decided not to quit documenting his unit (The 1/8, 1st Battalion, 8th Marines) and surrounding local population. He set up Basetrack on Facebook.
See this hidden war that has killed so many from a very unique point of view. His Instagram feed is here. His haunting video Facing Water Crisis – Machar Colony is here.
via http://www.balazsgardi.com
The Photographs of Balazs Gardi
James Nares rode around NYC with a video camera in his truck and documented the city in slow poetic motion. There is a surprise every minute and they are breathtakingly beautiful, comic and human. There is something here that reminds me of my dad’s 3D images of our family – which literally froze us in time. Dickens believed nothing was more interesting than real life and Nares gives us this fact, slowed down frame by frame, in all its glorious messy, poetic chaos. This is the short version of a much longer museum piece of 61 minutes.
Video: Street by James Nares