the magician and the scientist

From Sean Davies and Random Pictures, The Magician & The Scientist, a short story ...

street fashion

This photograph taken in San Francisco.

tiger rag

O those violinists!  Stephane Grapelli and Iwao Furusawa in Tiger Rag.

in the studio

Via frieze, Sturtevant in Paris.

To sleep, perchance to Dream ..

Aye, there's the rub, in Tilda Swinton's  performance art piece, The Maybe, currently running at MoMA with random unannounced appearances throughout the year, each time in a different location in the museum.

The Gothamist carries photos here, reporting she's there today (March 25th), maybe and if you hurry over.

More photos at this link.

Ms. Swinton originally staged The Maybe with artist Cornelia Parker in 1995 at the Serpentine Gallery in London, then continuing solo in Rome and Paris.  MoMA's exhibition is part of an effort to bring back historic performance art.  Chief Curator Klaus Biesenbach and the artist have been discussing MoMA's inclusion of The Maybe since 2005.

*Photo credits/top, posted by the Gothamist/middle, Gothamist, photographer: Jen Chung/bottom, Gothamist, via gallerinaoffduty's Instagram, signage for The Maybe at MoMA/Various views of "The Maybe" with artist Tilda Swinton, currently running randomly at the Museum Of Modern Art in New York City.

pesach

How to be a vegan during Passover.

somewhere in philly

Via boing boing, an epic infographic from Hilly "chatgirl" Sargeant on the 1990 500 million dollar Gardner Museum Heist.  (Go to the PDF version to read the fine print.)

In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, while virtually every other Bostonian lay drunk in gutters or passed out in their beds, two men dressed as Boston Police officers conned their way into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum by telling guards they were responding to some kind of disturbance.  The men spent a total of 81 minutes inside the museum, and made off with thirteen (13) works of art currently valued at over $500 million.  In 2013, on the 23rd anniversary of the heist, the FBI announced that they knew who committed the crime.  But they won't name names.  And the whereabouts of the artwork remains a mystery.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the FBI now believes some of the pieces, somewhere in Philly.  The mysterious heist is considered the largest property crime in U.S. history.  See the thirteen works of art here at Time NewsFeed.

More on lost (as well as stolen) art here, via the Tate's intriguing online exhibition, The Gallery Of Lost Art.


*Photo credit/Time NewsFeed/FBI photograph/"Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-Portrait," (1634), one of the 13 works of art from the mysterious 1990 Gardner heist.

dr mermaid

Via Expanded Animation, the glassmation work of Mark Elliot and Jack McGrath.  Created in collaboration with Vanessa White, Dr Mermaid and the Abovemarine is the tale of a marine biologist who can speak to fish.  Blog In A Bottle says the 6 minute film took a year to make, with glassblower Mark Elliot making the figurines and then heating them up to create the small movements.

street fashion

Erica Renfew with the Vancouver Observer fondly remembers her father's plaid shirts in a short history of plaid fashion. 

Milan.

Los Angeles.

Seattle.



*Photo credit/Vancouver Observer/photographer: Erica Renfew/"My father's plaid shirts."

how high the moon

Stephane Grappelli in a rare 1991 Warsaw performance of How High The Moon.  From fostexD160 who says, "Always reminds me what a musician should play and could play on stage."

in the studio

Georgia O'Keefe frequently painted in her car in New Mexico. 

city of books

Photostream of José Vasconcelos Library in Mexico City.

lamb stew

Via Simply Recipes, this Basque style lamb stew adapted from an old paper issue of Saveur Magazine.

saved

 

Arthur Panajian's paintings. 



*Photo credit/CBS New York/photographer: Thomas Schultz/Arthur Panajian paintings found in Thomas Schultz' garage.  (Photostream at CBS link.)

quay brothers

From the Brothers Quay, their 1986 Street Of Crocodiles.  MOMA had a retrospective last year reviewed by Roberta Smith.  Also a slideshow here from that exhibit, a MOMA video interview with the artist/filmmakers, and a video overview with MOMA curators from ThirteenWNET.

 

street fashion

This photograph taken in Paris.

clair de lune

Moonlight on Brittany, France with Django Reinhart's quintet ..

 

in the studio

Familiar friendly photography of French artists in their studios by Jean-Marc Pau.

beyond color

An exclusive Marc Chagall exhibit is currently running in the U.S. at the Dallas Museum of Art.  "Beyond Color" presents lesser known works by the artist, including a centerpiece of costumes he designed for the 1942 Léonide Massine ballet Aleko - with music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. 

The costumes have only been seen  in the U.S. once before - in 1942 when the ballet was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York - and 4 weeks after a Mexico City opening where the audience included famous muralists like Diego Rivera and José Orozco and concluded "with tumultuous applause" and 19 curtain calls.  The hero of the evening, Chagall had also painted the backdrops for the ballet, and in New York, where the ballet was similarly received, art critic Edwin Denby described "a dramatized exhibition of giant paintings... It surpasses anything Chagall has done on the easel scale, and it is a breathtaking experience, of a kind one hardly expects in the theatre."

The exhibit reportedly follows some of Chagall's visual relationships to Mexico and the southwest, also to space and volume.  It includes ceramics, collages, and to a lesser degree, some of his paintings.  The costumes themselves (hand-painted by Chagall) were sewn by seamstresses in Mexico where Chagall traveled in the course of working on the ballet.  They were found in a Mexico City storeroom in the eighties.

Organized by DMA curator Olivier Meslay, and with Musée La Piscine in Roubeaux, France.  The exhibit runs to May 26, 2013.

*Photo credit/Art and Seek/One of Chagall's handpainted costumes for the 1942 Léonide Massine ballet "Aleko," "Costume For A Fish."

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/02/20/4630556/seeing-chagall-in-3d-at-the-dallas.html#storylink=cpy