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AI WEI WEI’S SUNFLOWER SEEDS

Monday, October 18, 2010

There is more to Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s installation than meets the eye.
Bend and pick up one of the “pebbles” and you can see that it resembles a
sunflower seed encased in its striped husk. In fact, each one – and there are
100 million of them, covering an area of 1,000 square metres – is handmade
from porcelain and has been individually handpainted.

Ai had the “seeds” made in the southern Chinese city of Jingdezhen.

Harnessing traditional craft skills, each seed was moulded, fired, and painted
with three or four individual brush strokes, often by women taking the objects
home to work on them. One thousand six hundred people were involved in the
process.

Sunflower seeds, he said, had a particular significance in recent Chinese
culture and history. During the cultural revolution, Mao Zedong was often
likened to the sun and the people to sunflowers, gazing adoringly at his face.
But sunflowers were also a humble but valued source of food in straitened times,
a snack to be consumed with friends.

One Hundred Million Seeds of Porcelain Contemplation, Being Blog

People power comes to the Turbine Hall, The Guardian

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HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON

Thursday, April 8, 2010


A Cartier-Bresson picture taken in Shanghai, 1948, shows people storming a bank
for gold in the days before the Communist forces arrived.


A 1972 photo of a Georgian family picnicking near a medieval monastery

A Photographer Whose Beat Was the World, New York Times

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
MoMA
April 11—June 28, 2010

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Photography | Comments (0)


RUINS OF DETROIT

Friday, October 30, 2009


United Artists Theater


Fort Shelby Hotel


Ballroom, Fort Wayne Hotel


Ballroom, Lee Plaza Hotel

Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre Photography

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KLEIN’S ROME

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

In 1956, the photographer William Klein arrived in Rome to assist Federico
Fellini on his film Nights of Cabiria (1957). When the start of filming was
delayed, Klein spent his time strolling about the city with Fellini, Pier Paolo
Pasolini, Alberto Moravia, and other avant-garde Italian writers and artists
serving as his guides. It was from these walks that Klein’s 1959 book of
photography Rome was born.

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WILTSHIRE’S NEW YORK

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Stephen Wiltshire of London is drawing a panorama of New York City from memory.
Wiltshire, who has autism, took a 20-minute ride over the city in a helicopter
last Friday. Wiltshire has drawn panoramas of eight cities: Tokyo, Rome, Hong
Kong, Frankfurt, Madrid, Dubai, Jerusalem, and London. The New York panorama
will be his ninth and last.

The public will be able to visit Wiltshire while he works on his New York
panorama from 10am to 5pm, Monday, October 26 to Friday, October 30 at the Pratt
Institute’s Juliana Curran Terian Design Center.

Like a Skyline Is Etched in His Head, New York Times

stephenwiltshire.co.uk

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CAMOUFLAGE

Friday, October 16, 2009

The 36-year-old Liu Bolin paints on himself to blend into his surroundings. Liu
poses and works for up to 10 hours at a time on a single photo. Sometimes
passerbys don’t even realize he is there until he moves.

Liu sees his work as a silent protest against the Government’s persecution of
artists. The Chinese authorities shut down his studio in 2005.

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Art, Photography | Comments (0)


THE AMERICANS

Tuesday, September 22, 2009


Funeral—St. Helena, South Carolina, 1955


Charleston, South Carolina, 1955


Trolley—New Orleans, 1955

“It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.”
—Robert Frank

Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
September 22, 2009—January 3, 2010

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Quotations | Comments (0)


LOST LHASA

Saturday, September 12, 2009


Cheeks ballooning, monks force sirenlike blasts from silver trumpets as they
clear the way for their king.


Top Tibetan officials marvel at a souvenir from America. A finance secretary
peers through a slide viewer, memento of a Tibetan trade delegation’s mission to
the United States in 1948.


Mother and child pray on Chagpori’s crest, a pilgrim shrine.


Clouds of dust and incense veil the Dalai Lama’s flight to safety. When China’s
troops entered Tibet in 1950, the Living Buddha fled to the Sikkim border. Here
in a sedan chair, he rides between rows of stones designed to ward off demons.


In sublime reverence, the Dalai Lama cradles his faith’s holiest relic. When
this young man was two years old, mysterious signs revealed him as the
incarnation of Tibet’s patron god, Chanrezi, and the previous 13 Dalai Lamas.
Here at Dungkhar Monastery he receives a gold-encased bone which Tibetans
believe to be that of Gautama Buddha, who founded the religion on which Lamaism
is based.

My Life in Forbidden Lhasa by Heinrich Harrer, National Geographic

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AFGHANISTAN’S HIDDEN TREASURES

Saturday, August 8, 2009


Limestone fountain spout.


Gold necklace set with turquoise, garnet, and pyrite.


Folding gold crown. Could be laid flat and packed in a saddlebag when the tribe
moved from place to place.

> Omara Khan Massoudi knows how to keep a secret. Massoudi is director of the
> National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul. Like the French citizens during World
> War II who hid works of art in the countryside to prevent them from falling
> into Nazi hands, Massoudi and a few trusted tahilwidars—key holders—secretly
> packed away Afghanistan’s ancient treasures when they saw their country
> descend into an earthly hell.
> 
> First came the Soviet invasion in 1979, followed about ten years later by a
> furious civil war that reduced much of Kabul to ruins. As Afghan warlords
> battled for control of the city, fighters pillaged the national museum,
> selling the choicest artifacts on the black market and using museum records to
> kindle campfires. In 1994 the building was shelled, destroying its roof and
> top floor. The final assault came in 2001, when teams of hammer-wielding
> Taliban zealots came to smash works of art they deemed idolatrous.

Afghanistan’s Hidden Treasures, National Geographic

Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
June 23—September 20, 2009

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Exhibitions, Human Rights | Comments (0)


WASTE NOT

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

> Purely to survive, Song Dong’s parents adhered to the Cultural Revolutionary
> dictum of frugality in daily life, with his mother carrying conservation to
> extravagant lengths.

The Collected Ingredients of a Beijing Life, New York Times

Waste Not
MoMA
June 24—September 7, 2009

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