calligraphy art shop “My job is to produce TV shows, documentaries, talk shows,” Mr. Remilleux said. “For the past five or six years, I produce mostly documentaries about history, because the more I become old, the more I want to do only what I love.” He was awarded the Order of Arts and Letters in […]
calligraphy and art “If I can get more Americans to come to the show, I dare say I will have done my job,” said Mr. Forbes, who is known as Kip. Photo Alexis Lartigue, one of the fair’s youngest dealers, will be showing Fernand Léger’s “Yellow Cameo Composition” (1931). Credit Courtesy Galerie Alexis Lartigue Ninety-four […]
calligraphy gallery The Louvre Abu Dhabi, designed by the architect Jean Nouvel, will open Nov. 11. Credit Mohamed Somji/Louvre Abu Dhabi It has long seemed like the project that would never be completed: The Louvre Abu Dhabi, announced in 2007, has had an opening date that kept getting delayed, from 2012 to 2013 to 2015 […]
Calligraphy is an art William Eggleston is famous for his photography, but music has long been part of his artistic identity. Credit Peter Townsend William Eggleston’s photographs have adorned album covers for years: He has lent his singular eye to projects by Big Star, Joanna Newsom and Spoon. But on Oct. 20, Mr. Eggleston, now […]
calligraphy on paper Ms. Woods emphasized that what appeared “fake” to some is, in fact, faithful to the original. The bony white colonettes and the multicolored ceiling keystones may seem garish, but they were aspects of the medieval cathedral (along with opulent wall hangings and portal statues painted in vivid colors). Yet we do not […]
black and Wight calligraphy In the short film “In-Out (Antropofagia)” (“In-Out (Cannibalism)”), from 1973, we see close-up shots of different mouths, men’s and women’s, as they babble and swallow and regurgitate eggs or multicolored strings. Another film, “Y” (1974), features the artist blindfolded, her mouth wide open and screaming without end. The mouth, in these […]
Along his right arm is a tattooed wavy line that is actually a graph charting the average temperature of the earth’s surface over the last 136 years; on his left arm, a similar line reflects 400,000 years of carbon dioxide levels in the earth’s atmosphere. It shoots upward at the end and curves around his […]
Calligraphy Photo The lightship Ambrose at South Street Seaport in 2003. “For millions of immigrants, Ambrose was the literal light of liberty,” said Jonathan Boulware, executive director of the museum. Credit Joyce Dopkeen/The New York Times After years of financial turbulence, and significant damage from Hurricane Sandy, the South Street Seaport Museum has received another […]
Photo “Three Queens” (1971), by Wadsworth Jarrell. Credit Detroit Institute of Arts Flower-power highs and social-justice explosions: That was 1967 in America. The highs soon ended. But 50 years on, the explosions resonate. And one of them, the 1967 Detroit Rebellion, is being revisited in its source city. Of dozens of commemorative events organized under […]
Around 2002, the artist, illustrator and writer Maira Kalman came across a copy of William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White’s “The Elements of Style” in a yard sale and decided that this legendary if sometimes contested guide to grammar and clear writing needed visual accompaniment. So she provided some, making 57 illustrations inspired by […]