It’s been 150 years since Impressionism transformed our world and how we perceive it. On April 15, 1874, a collective of upstarts including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot and Paul Cézanne converged on the Paris studio of photographer Félix Nadar for a group show that art critic Louis Leroy sardonically dubbed “The […]
A hook and ladder company, gravediggers and bingo enthusiasts are some of the eye-popping denizens truly celebrated by film director and photographer Neal Slavin in the expanded golden anniversary edition of When Two or More are Gathered Together. Years ago, his group portrait of a boy-scout troop, all shiny medals, reds and tans, faces freckled […]
Hey, we were right to call it Banksy’s London Street Zoo all along. After 8 days of painting around London with different stenciled animals, today, Day 9, sees Banksy head to the London Zoo to paint a gorilla letting the animals out of confinement. If this is the last day of the Street Zoo, it […]
Are we having fun? At the artist Banksy’s suggestion, we are having a little fun as go across the English capital (or UK capital if you want, it is, indeed, the capital of both) in Banksy’s London Street Zoo. The rhino, cleverly placed atop an old car, is on Westmoor Street in Charlton, south-east London. […]
On day 7, Banksy painted swimming piranhas on a phone box in the City of London Police “sentry” box as part of the Banksy’s London Street Zoo. He mentioned something about uplifting the people, and I do feel, in my heart of hearts, that swimming piranhas might be slightly on the menacing side, but I haven’t swam with piranhas in […]
There doesn’t seem to be anything more 1984 than taking what was one of the most popular selling books of the 21st century and printing an alternative text upon its ashes. There is that wonderful moment in Orwell’s masterwork that reads “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been […]
Many curious feelings arise from the photographs in Andrea Modica’s new book, Theatrum Equorum. They emerge slowly, and sometimes surprisingly, between intentionally repetitive images of horses lying in repose, resting on beds of shredded paper, enclosed by dark, and featureless walls. It isn’t a context where we are accustomed to seeing horses. They are supposed […]
As the holidays approach, many of us are returning home or gathering with our families again. Maybe it’s friends that gather or maybe it’s solitude that awaits, either way, thoughts are drifting to a different sort of place, one a little further removed from the day-to-day of our lives. It has almost been three years […]
We are asking more questions these days, aren’t we? As fractured as we all seem, as disjointed and uncertain the present and future may seem, we are beginning to have conversations about how we face ourselves, peers, family, society and our past. The pandemic reset many of our lives, but also put a new perspective […]
