T-shirts, longsleeves, boxers, briefs and more are featured in the overall 9 piece debut collection. Everything is kept in white, black and grey, with only the collection’s logo tag distracting from the otherwise very clean design. The collection, dubbed “Bodywear,” will be online and in 1,800 H&M stores worldwide as of Feb. 2 and is the first step in a planned long-term cooperation between H&M and David Beckham.
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The Wedding (The Walker Evans Polaroid Project) ultimately came to include: 83 Walker Evans Polaroids; elements from Bird, a body of work by Roni Horn made between 1998 and 2007; a collotype from Eadweard Muybridge’s 1887 Animal Locomotion series; a photograph of c1900 Paris by Eugène Atget; a 19th-century French model of a cooper’s shop, with tools to scale; a large, 19th-century English birdhouse; and a selection of early 20th-century American Arts and Craft Movement furniture, including original and custom-replications, designed by Gustav Stickley.
A list of components, however, like a roster of artists, indicates little about the content of any of my shows. My exhibitions are meant to be poetic rather than didactic, amalgamating diverse individual works and objects into a coherent whole. A curatorial composition has its own unity and point of view, like an individual work in any artistic medium. Individual artworks and objects stand in specific relationships to each other, both in terms of their physical placement and their cognitive consonance, dissonance and resonance. Their form and the medium in which each is made, as well as the places in which they are set, provide opportunities for viewers to mine them individually and together for meaning, knowledge and insight.
Opposite – Graveyard Monument, 1973-74
Exhibition runs through to January 14th, 2012
Andrea Rosen Gallery
525 West 24 Street
New York
NY
10011
New York
Dayanita Singh’s latest body of work, entitled “House of Love”, is novelistic in its approach yet curiously elliptical in its multiple subject matters. For the first time in a single series, Ms. Singh has combined black-and-white with color photographs, images shot both in India and around the world, yet none are identified and all are allowed to be free-floating, tethered to one another only by the circumstances of “stories” in which they have been grouped (with individual titles such as “Continuous cities, “ “Theft in a cake shop,” “Departure lounge,” and “Being of darkness,” the nine “stories” ranging in groups as small as six and as large as seventeen pictures). Everything and all to be at the service of the book of the same name, Ms. Singh’s primary medium for her images and the unifying structure in which this diversity becomes succinct.
The subjects of Ms. Singh’s pictures range from bucolic landscapes and congested cityscapes; portraits of friends, acquaintances and strangers (both formally posed and spontaneously captured); arrangements of objects found in homes, museums and offices; the interiors of all types of spaces and the exteriors of all manner of constructions. This multiplicity finds cohesion in proscribed themes which run throughout Ms. Singh’s project: the romance of travel, the mysteries of attraction, and the displaced yearnings of desire. “House of Love” is Ms. Singh’s response to the delirious satisfaction she has found within the works of her favourite authors (Italo Calvino, Amitav Ghosh, Orhan Pamuk, W.G. Sebald, Vikram Seth, among others), telling a story of life and how it is lived in the way she knows how to, through photographs collected into a book.
Opposite – Ambulance 4, 2010
Exhibition runs through to January 29th, 2012
Nature Morte
A-1 Neeti Bagh
110 049
New Delhi
India
The citizens of Rome are hungry. Coriolanus, the hero of Rome, a great soldier and a man of inflexible self-belief despises the people. His extreme views ignite a mass riot. Rome is bloody. Manipulated and out-maneuvered by politicians and even his own mother Volumnia, Coriolanus is banished from Rome. He offers his life or his services to his sworn enemy Tullus Aufidius.Directed by Ralph Fiennes.
In theaters January 20th, 2012
TweetPart documentary, part personal essay, this experimental film combines archive imagery with the striking wintry landscapes of Alaska to tell the story of immigrant experience coming into the UK from 1960 onwards.
In theaters January 20th, 2012
TweetMichel Gondry’s take on Taxi Driver in 2.41 minutes starring himself!!!
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