One of the Marines in Iconic Iwo Jima Photo Has Been Misidentified for Over 70 Years
4 HRS AGO - The Marine Corps has confirmed that one of the six marines in the iconic photograph “Flag Expand
4 HRS AGO - The Marine Corps has confirmed that one of the six marines in the iconic photograph “Flag Raising on Iwo Jima” has been misidentified for over 70 years. The man who was thought to be Pfc Rene Gagnon was, in fact, Cpl Harold “Pie” Keller. The photograph, captured on February 23rd, 1945 by photographer Joe Rosenthal, […] Collapse
Polixeni Papapetrou: photographing Olympia, daughter and muse – in pictures
5 HRS AGO - Over her 20-year career, the Australian photographer Polixeni Papapetrou explored the Expand
5 HRS AGO - Over her 20-year career, the Australian photographer Polixeni Papapetrou explored the representation of children and questions of identity. Her daughter Olympia Nelson, now 23, was the main subject of her work and Papapetrou photographed her in fantastical and theatrical settings. Now, a major new retrospective at the National Gallery of Victoria draws together Papapetrou’s depictions of her daughter over the years, until the artist’s death from cancer in 2018. Here, Nelson describes the experience of being her mother’s muse and what it was like creating those intriguing and magical works• Olympia: Photographs by Polixeni Papapetrou is showing at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, until 15 March 2020 Continue reading... Collapse
Just nipping out for a zero-gravity mocha! Moving to Mars review
9 HRS AGO - Design Museum, LondonAs this fascinating show makes clear, colonising the Red Planet will require Expand
9 HRS AGO - Design Museum, LondonAs this fascinating show makes clear, colonising the Red Planet will require technical genius – plus an eye for fashion and coffee you can drink upside-down‘Nuke Mars!” tweeted Elon Musk in August this year. Having launched a car into orbit and developed a self-landing rocket, the billionaire SpaceX founder seems to have set his sights on bombing the red planet. “T-shirt soon,” he added.But it wasn’t just another drug-induced whim. Musk has been contemplating the idea since 2015. By nuking the sky over the Martian poles every couple of seconds, he thinks he could create two tiny pulsing “suns” that would melt the ice and release vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. It would essentially create an instant greenhouse effect, raising the temperature and air pressure of the planet – climate change on demand from the man who marketed flamethrowers for torching marshmallows. Continue reading... Collapse
Arts Live, Dumfries & Galloway: The Monster and Mary Shelley
13 HRS AGO - 23 Oct Arts Live is Dumfries & Galloway's year-round arts festival, with top-quality events Expand
13 HRS AGO - 23 Oct Arts Live is Dumfries & Galloway's year-round arts festival, with top-quality events throughout the region for all the family. On 23rd October, Occasion Theatre presents its contemporary take on author Mary Shelley's life in 'The Monster and Mary Shelley'. Collapse
Tours of Norwich prize-winning estate prompt 'freak show' warning
14 HRS AGO - Council plans regular visits to Goldsmith Street, which won architectures’ Stirling prizeInterest Expand
14 HRS AGO - Council plans regular visits to Goldsmith Street, which won architectures’ Stirling prizeInterest in a prize-winning council housing estate in Norwich has become so intense that the local authority is planning regular guided tours, prompting a warning against turning the homes into a “freak show”.Norwich city council has been inundated with requests from other councils keen to visit Goldsmith Street and replicate its success after it won the coveted Stirling prize earlier this month and was hailed as a “modern masterpiece”. Continue reading... Collapse
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Cruise Passenger Banned for Life After Posing for Dangerous Photo on Her Balcony’s Railing
4 HRS AGO - A Royal Caribbean cruise line passenger has been banned from the company’s cruises for life Expand
4 HRS AGO - A Royal Caribbean cruise line passenger has been banned from the company’s cruises for life after she climbed onto the railing of her room’s balcony to pose for a dangerous photo in front of the ocean. We’ve seen our fair share of dangerous selfies and photo shoots, but this stunt made international headlines today thanks, […] Collapse
Razer’s Top of the Line Photo and Video Editing Laptop is Cheaper than Expected
7 HRS AGO - If you’re looking to pick up one of the (if not the) best photo and video editing laptops on Expand
7 HRS AGO - If you’re looking to pick up one of the (if not the) best photo and video editing laptops on the market, and your wallet is trembling at the prospect, today is a day for good news: Razer has revealed the pricing for its top-of-the-line Blade 15 Studio Edition “creative workstation,” and it’s more affordable than […] Collapse
Buy a classic Guardian photograph: Westonbirt arboretum
9 HRS AGO - Our weekly series of exclusive Guardian print sales continues with an autumnal shot of trees, Expand
9 HRS AGO - Our weekly series of exclusive Guardian print sales continues with an autumnal shot of trees, photographed by Felix Clay, November 2013 The afternoon sun casts long and elegant shadows in a clearing at Westonbirt arboretum, Gloucestershire, captured by the Guardian photographer Felix Clay, who died in May 2019 after a long illness. Clay positioned the tree in the centre of his image, drawing the eye in. At first glance, the photograph appears to be a landscape, but look more closely and you can see a lone figure next to the tree. The image was taken in early November, but it looks as though it is much earlier in the year, as the branches are still in leaf, probably thanks to the heatwave that swept Britain that summer. Hannah BoothBuy your exclusive print here Continue reading... Collapse
Edinburgh Printmakers: Mouth of a Shark, Transparency
14 HRS AGO - 19 Oct - 5 Jan Two new displays begin on 19th October at Edinburgh Printmakers: Mouth of a Shark Expand
14 HRS AGO - 19 Oct - 5 Jan Two new displays begin on 19th October at Edinburgh Printmakers: Mouth of a Shark is a collaboration of printmakers on the theme of displacement, and in Transparency two Glasgow artists join forces to respond to the building's history, bringing it together with Scotland’s colonial past. Collapse
Joanna Boyce Wells’s Study of Fanny Eaton: strong and graceful
15 HRS AGO - The English painter largely overlooked by history captures perfectly muted emotions and elegance Expand
15 HRS AGO - The English painter largely overlooked by history captures perfectly muted emotions and elegance in this studyLike most working-class people of colour in Victorian England, any trace of Fanny Eaton’s life could have been lost to time. She travelled from Jamaica with her mother, a former slave, and spent most of her years in domestic servitude. Her husband died when she was 46, leaving her with 10 children. No written word of her life survives. Continue reading... Collapse
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Living colour: the intricacy and beauty of budgies – in pictures
5 HRS AGO - Leila Jeffreys started photographing birds in 2008. In this series she takes the birds out of Expand
5 HRS AGO - Leila Jeffreys started photographing birds in 2008. In this series she takes the birds out of their natural habitat, and by stripping the environment back to the bare minimum and using neutral backgrounds she shows the intricacy and beauty of the feathered creatures. Her latest exhibition, High Society, is on at the the Olsen Gallery, Woollahra, Sydney from 16 October until 9 November• You can vote for the budgie in the Guardian/Bird Life Australia 2019 bird of the year poll from 28 November Continue reading... Collapse
Copulation at its fruitiest – David Hockney, Alan Davie, Christina Quarles review
8 HRS AGO - Hepworth Gallery, WakefieldAn obsession with writhing bodies is the theme in this lovely show full Expand
8 HRS AGO - Hepworth Gallery, WakefieldAn obsession with writhing bodies is the theme in this lovely show full of signs of cross-fertilisationCocks, bums, breasts, bits of bodies and vagrant abstract symbols float about in two related painting exhibitions at the Hepworth. Pairing early works by the late Scottish painter Alan Davie (1920-2014) and David Hockney, the gallery sets out to acknowledge Davie’s influence on the younger Hockney, who took what he needed from the older artist and moved on, while Davie was still struggling to escape, most notably from Jackson Pollock. A second, attendant exhibition at the Hepworth, of American painter Christina Quarles, allows us to look at her work in the light of Hockney.Davie’s earlier work was altogether too clamorous, clogged and beefy, and only by ditching all those layers of mark-making did he get anywhere close to the lightness and airy spaces of the best of Pollock’s all-over paintings. At times Davie’s art took a Pollock turn, a Miró turn, a Sam Collapse
Mars decor, stunning psychedelia and the hound of Hades – the week in art
10 HRS AGO - Humanity looks to colonise the Red Planet, Bridget Riley messes with heads and Mark Bradford Expand
10 HRS AGO - Humanity looks to colonise the Red Planet, Bridget Riley messes with heads and Mark Bradford unleashes a monster dog – all in your weekly dispatchMoving to MarsCan humanity find a new home on Mars? That provocative sci-fi solution to our woes is explored in this glimpse of a possible future. • Design Museum, London, 18 October to 23 February. Continue reading... Collapse
Dockside Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed: More Than Words
14 HRS AGO - Until 25 Oct Berwick-upon-Tweed's Dockside Gallery is hosting an exhibition of artworks inspired Expand
14 HRS AGO - Until 25 Oct Berwick-upon-Tweed's Dockside Gallery is hosting an exhibition of artworks inspired by the love of books, featuring selected artists. Collapse
New youth projects & partnerships for Jimmy Asher Foundation
16 HRS AGO - Iman Ogoo, Senior Project Coordinator at Jimmy Asher Foundation in Tooting, tells us about Expand
16 HRS AGO - Iman Ogoo, Senior Project Coordinator at Jimmy Asher Foundation in Tooting, tells us about their new youth partnerships in Tooting and beyond, plus their steps towards greater opportunities for funding and support.
The Jimmy Asher Foundation team have formed a new partnership with our local youth centre, Tooting Hub. For 30 weeks we will deliver boxing training workshops for the young people that use the service, which is situated on..... Collapse
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