Exhibitions in London and New York honor the prodigious photographer who left behind a timeless body of work following her death, at just 22 Gagosian in New York City is celebrating its newly announced representation of the Woodman Family Foundation with the show “Francesca Woodman,” and in London, where the National Portrait Gallery features herContinue reading “Photography’s Shooting Star”
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Writing a Novel With Pictures
Smuggling contraband in from the realm of the actual. Amitava Kumar at Hazlitt: I was sitting on a train, travelling from my home in Poughkeepsie to New York City, when I saw a note on my phone asking me to write the piece below. I began thinking of a painting, a portrait of his father paintedContinue reading “Writing a Novel With Pictures”
The Videos You are About to Watch are Not Real
Creating video from text: Sora is an AI model that can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions.
Poetry: Homes, Back to Home
Homeswe all leave home eventually,leave the dark comfort of wombs,leave the home of childhood,some earlier than others depending uponthe warmth or not of particular hearths.inevitably some step outand abandon silver spoons like Siddharthawho was not comforted by comfort,while some break from huts of sheer neglect.eventually, some even leavethe cocoon of self,cracking its cramped shell,flying beyondContinue reading “Poetry: Homes, Back to Home”
The Photographic News. Two Rainbows. A Rose.
In 1868 a reviewer for The Photographic News described a set of prints made by Julia Margaret Cameron as ‘altogether repulsive’. Searching for the original source of this comment for an article I was writing, I came across a digitized archive of TPN and tumbled down a wonderful rabbit hole. More here. Two Rainbows InContinue reading “The Photographic News. Two Rainbows. A Rose.”
‘Guernica’ in Gaza
The town of Guernica in northern Spain was heavily bombed during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. The bombing had a great impact on people all over the world, including the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. He characterized the impact by painting his famous work, “Guernica” –it conveyed a profound message describing the ugliness of theContinue reading “‘Guernica’ in Gaza”
How “The Prophet” Made Kahlil Gibran a Household Name in America
Gibran’s closest counterpart today is the Brazilian sage Paulo Coelho, and his books have sold nearly a hundred million copies. Joan Acocella at Literary Hub: What made The Prophet so fantastically successful? At the opening of the book, we are told that Almustafa, a holy man, has been living in exile, in a city called Orphalese, forContinue reading “How “The Prophet” Made Kahlil Gibran a Household Name in America”
“Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind”
“Her Tate Modern retrospective delights me with its mixture of silliness and profundity.“ Tracey Thorn at The New Statesman writes: Halfway round the new “Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind” exhibition at Tate Modern (on until 1 September) I enter into a kind of record-shop listening booth that is decorated with her album covers andContinue reading ““Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind””
In These Dissenting Times
To acknowledge our ancestors meanswe are aware that we did not makeourselves, that the line stretchesall the way back, perhaps, to God; orto Gods. We remember them because itis an easy thing to forget: that weare not the first to suffer, rebel,fight, love and die. The grace withwhich we embrace life, in spite ofthe pain,Continue reading “In These Dissenting Times”