Vitro Nasu

Yves Klein Blue installation via

Scientist discovered a New Blue – 2016

Paris review: True Blue

A brief history of ultramarine.

Hockney

82 portraits and 1 still life, which opens at the Royal Academy in London on 2 July.

David Hockney among friends: a triumphant return to portraiture
In the wake of a personal tragedy, Hockney embarked on a new project: to capture his wide social circle in defiantly exuberant tones

Baldessari portrait by David Hockney

John Baldessari (previous post)

Chris and Don by David Hockney
Chris and Don (previous post)

Orange
Orange via

artforum

Tony Feher (1956–2016)

The sculptor Tony Feher died today. His subtle, straightforward work, made with the most throwaway of things—plastic water bottles, berry cartons, jelly jars, or blue painter’s tape—upended Minimalist sobriety and Conceptualist cool with an intelligence that wholly embraced humor and charm.

via Art News.

Gary Simmons wrote, “R.I.P. Tony Feher a fantastic artist who showed us so much beauty in the moments…you’ll be missed brother..rest in power.”

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Untitled, 2007 glass jars with metal screw lids, glass marbles, stainless steel wire 28 x 18 x 6 inches

via Acme LA

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Tony Feher
Nine mylar bags and push pins – 2004

Mad Tea Party

Fan Ho (wiki)

He died in San Jose, California on 19 June, 2016 of pneumonia at the age of 84

via Petapixel

Born in Shanghai, China, in 1931, Ho first picked up a camera at age 13 when his father gave him a Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex camera. After moving to Hong Kong later in his teens, he began to document life on the streets of that bustling 1950s city. His remarkable street photos of Hong Kong would soon earn him international attention, exhibitions, and hundreds of photography awards.

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121 clicks –inspiratin from masters of photography

Fan Ho (homepage)

Fan Ho: finding love and light in 1950s Hong Kong – in pictures

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Coffee and Cigarettes – Cate Blanchet in two roles.

Jim Jarmusch dedicated Broken Flower to Jean Eustache

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The Mother and The Whore directed by Jean Eustache.

(Picasso, Beauvoir, Sartre, Camus and Picasso’s dog)

Simone de Beauvoir – Paris with Sartre, Chicago with Nelson Algren.

Monty Clift as Freud

Sartre and John Huston

Open Culture – Jean Paul Sartre writes a script for John Huston’s film on Freud

The World is Not My Home

Danny Lyon

Message to the Future at Whitney

A leading figure in the American street photography movement of the 1960s, Lyon has distinguished himself by the personal intimacy he establishes with his subjects and the inventiveness of his practice. With his ability to find beauty in the starkest reality, Lyon has through his work provided a charged alternative to the bland vision of American life often depicted in the mass media.

Haiti Danny Lyon in the 1980

Prison photos by Danny Lyon

(repost – Ali archive here)

China photo

NYtimes arts/design

Le Corbusier and Vincent Perez
Happy birthday Vincent Perez (June 10)

V.Perez

The Price of Desire features Eileen Gray and Le Corbusier
Besides Vincent Perez Orla Brady as Eileen Gray and Alanis Morissette as lover “Damia” in The Price of Desire, directed by Mary McGuckian,

Eileen Gray:Innovative Designer – see her 28 million dollors chair.

Update: Big Congrats ..Jimmy Hendrickx just announced…”We have just won the Best Foreign Documentary Award at the Firenze Film Festival 🎥🤘 with A Punk Daydream ”
(On FB Oct 1, 2020)

This is my favorite photo taken for the documentary, at Kota Harbor, Edo playing music on his ukelele to the kids. The metal round thing in the bottom left corner is a soup-bike in the making. It is recycled metal with a hole in it to fit a soup or porridge pot. It is then attached to a bike. That is how the poor make money. They ride around in the city selling street food. And it is actually delicious. The trashed floor… is actually layers of trashed on top of the OCEAN. Yes, there water underneath, not ground. not safe.
(Jimmy Henrickx)

Jimmy Hendrickx (director) in the center and Kristian Van der Hayden (producer) on the right

A punk Daydream or “Lamunan Oi!” is a portrait of the largest growing punk community in the world despite Indonesia’s extreme social, political, and environmental conditions, as seen through the eyes of punk youth. – by director Jimmy Hendrickx.

Interview with Jimmy Henrickx – the filmmaker

Moore and Ali
via

He announced that if she was the greatest poetess in the country, the two of them should produce something together — “I am a poet, too,” he said — a joint effort sonnet, it was to be, with each of them doing alternate lines. Miss Moore nodded vaguely. Ali was very much the more decisive of the pair, picking not only the form but also the topic: “Mrs. Moore and I are going to write a sonnet about my upcoming fight in Houston with Ernie Terrell,” he proclaimed to the table. “Mrs. Moore and I will show the world with this great poem who is who and what is what and who is going to win.”

“We will call it ‘A Poem on the Annihilation of Ernie Terrell,’ ” Miss Moore announced. “Let us be serious but not grim.”

“She’s cute,” Ali commented. (read here via )

After we defeat Ernie Terrell
He will get nothing, nothing but hell,
Terrell was big and ugly and tall
But when he fights me he is sure to fall.
If he criticize this poem by me and Miss Moore
To prove he is not the champ she will stop him in four,
He is claiming to be the real heavyweight champ
But when the fight starts he will look like a tramp
He has been talking too much about me and making me sore
After I am through with him he will not be able to challenge Mrs. Moore.

Photo by Danny Lyon – 1970.

Photo of Ali by Flip Schulke

“I ain’t got no quarrel with the Viet Cong. No Viet Cong ever called me a nigger.. – said Muhammad Ali.. (Page 10) David Markson – Vanishing point.”

Ali passed away on June 3, 2016
David Markson passed away June 4, 2010

Ali and Malcolm X

Ali riding a bike

More amazing photos of Ali – here

Prince kept his cool.