Archives For Art

Scorsese lives to create great cinema. Take an hour to learn all you need to know about why film is so unique among art forms by a true master of the medium. (If you have not seen his love poem to the art of cinema Hugo you are missing something very special).

Martin Scorsese, Academy Award winning American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, film historian and preservationist delivers the 42nd annual Jefferson Lecture on April 1, 2013 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.

Scorsese’s lecture: “Persistence of Vision: Reading the Language of Cinema,”

 

via the NEH web site

 

 

Next to her husband Alfred Stieglitz, Todd Webb has had more access to the artist than just about anyone.  His archive is here

via the web site

Run (don’t walk) to see one of the greatest living painters working today.

 Anselm Kiefer / Morgenthau Plan

@ Gagosian Gallery
May 3 – June 8, 2013

 

via the gallery web site

Chuck Close paints big, methodical portraits and has always depended on photographs in his art making process. This exhibition (April 16 – May 24, 2013)  at Eykyn/Maclean Gallery takes you deep into his methodology by showing you his decision-making process as they progress from photograph to paint. This looks to be a rare and great show that reminds us how, optics, photography and painting have walked hand in hand since before the invention of the Camera Lucida.

 

 

“That is the great thing about the maquettes. You see the decisions that I made, where those lines fall … And if someone were going to take a lot of time analyzing them I think they would find that there’s a method in the madness.”

–Chuck Close, 2013

via gallery web site

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