Art, Photo & Misc.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, and Wim Wenders (Lt. to rt), Cannes, 1982 -nd
This photo was taken in Room 666 at the Hotel Martinez (Cannes). During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of film directors from around the world to get, each one at a time, into a hotel room, turn on the camera and sound recorder, and, in solitude, answer a simple question: “Is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?”
Among the film directors who answered were: Fassbinder, Godard, Herzog, Antonioni, Güney, Spielberg, etcThe movie is named “Room 666”: Details on Wim Wenders - Also the answers of Fassbinder and Herzog can be seen here
Neoexpresionismo alemán: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, and Wim Wenders (s-d)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, and Wim Wenders
Le Corbusier stands by a peasant hut on the Moscow countryside. Photograph taken by Sergei Kozhin in 1928. (A Sartorial moment)
Rem Koolhaas, Cleaning Reconstructed German Pavilion, Barcelona, Milan Triennale, 1986
“I do not respect Mies, I love Mies. I have studied Mies, excavated Mies, reassembled Mies. I have even cleaned Mies. Because I do not revere Mies, I’m at odds with his admirers.” - Rem Koolhaas
Stephen Shore, Self Portrait, New York, 1976.
His career began at the early age of fourteen, when he made the precocious move of presenting his photographs to Edward Steichen, then curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Recognizing Shore’s talent, Steichen bought three of his works. At age seventeen, Shore met Andy Warhol and began to frequent Warhol’s studio, the Factory, photographing Warhol and the creative people that surrounded him. In 1971, at the age of 24, Shore became the second living photographer to have a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Giorgio Vasari, Portrait of Leon Battista Alberti for his Vite de’ più eccellenti pittori, scultori ed architettori, Florence, 1568.
OLYMPIA COMES BACK HOME
The Magritte’s Olympia (1948), that was stolen in September 2009 (*) from the artist house museum in Jette (Brussels), has been returned after thieves couldn’t sell it on black market. The painting that depicts his wife Georgette was handed back in excellent conditions after, according Belgian press reports, a 75,000€ ransom was paid by the picture’s insurer.
I took this photo a few years ago, before the theft. I hope things get back to normal soon.
(Image: René Magritte, Georgette à Table, 1933-1935.)
