Fred Lightfoot obituary
1 HR AGO - My friend and former colleague Fred Lightfoot, who has died aged 96, was an organiser of Expand
1 HR AGO - My friend and former colleague Fred Lightfoot, who has died aged 96, was an organiser of large-scale international exhibitions.Fred was born near Tooting Bec, south London, to Frederick Lightfoot, assistant superintendent of a parcels office, and Mabel (nee Cooper). Continue reading... Collapse
Adobe Rolls Out Revamped Creative Cloud Desktop App
2 HRS AGO - Adobe has launched a new version of its Creative Cloud desktop application that has been Expand
2 HRS AGO - Adobe has launched a new version of its Creative Cloud desktop application that has been redesigned from the ground up “to be a more intuitive way to access your apps, update them, and discover new apps that complement or extend your creativity.” Instead of a lightweight app that’s designed for managing Creative Cloud apps, the […] Collapse
Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh: The Artists’ Pool – Human Condition
8 HRS AGO - 17 - 26 Oct The Artists' Pool's latest show at Edinburgh's Dundas Street Gallery explores the Expand
8 HRS AGO - 17 - 26 Oct The Artists' Pool's latest show at Edinburgh's Dundas Street Gallery explores the complexities of human existence, from the physical to the spiritual, from birth to death, through growth, and change. Collapse
Martin Parr's 40 years in the life of Wales: 'Let's face it – people are funny
13 HRS AGO - His ability to turn photos into odd mini-dramas has found its perfect subject: Wales. We talk Expand
13 HRS AGO - His ability to turn photos into odd mini-dramas has found its perfect subject: Wales. We talk mountains, beaches, mushy peas and Magnum with the great photographerWhat do Martin Parr’s photographs of Wales tell us about the country, its past, its present and its future? “Nothing much,” Parr replies in a deadpan voice when I pose the question. It’s not quite the response I was anticipating, given that he has been photographing the country for 40 years now and his best shots are about to go on show at the National Museum in Cardiff. But then Parr has spent five decades confounding and wrong-footing – if not actually deflating – people’s expectations of his work.“It’s a coincidence they’re all taken in Wales,” he says. “It’s not like I’ve gone out to capture Wales. They’re just pictures that happen to have been taken in Wales, and therefore by default are a portrait or interpretation of the country. There are places that aren’t represented, but that’s the point really. These are the Collapse
The mystery of the missing Leonardo: where is Da Vinci’s $450m Jesus?
1 DAY AGO - The Louvre has asked to loan Salvator Mundi for a major exhibition – but many doubt the Expand
1 DAY AGO - The Louvre has asked to loan Salvator Mundi for a major exhibition – but many doubt the much-disputed work will make an appearanceWill it or won’t it appear? This is the question being asked across the art world about the Salvator Mundi - the first Leonardo to be discovered for more than a century - as the Louvre prepares for its blockbuster da Vinci exhibition.With just under two weeks to go before the show opens, there are now serious doubts as to whether the star of the exhibition will be included, as the Paris museum had hoped. Continue reading... Collapse
The motherland: lost images of the Windrush generation
2 DAYS AGO - Young photographer Howard Grey captured the mixed emotions of West Indian arrivals at Waterloo in Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Young photographer Howard Grey captured the mixed emotions of West Indian arrivals at Waterloo in 1962, in images that lay undeveloped for more than 50 years• See a gallery of Howard Grey’s Windrush imagesThe Windrush generation has been much in the news – and rightly so – since the scandal of the threatened and actual deportation of hundreds of them by the Home Office came to light last year. Numerous poignant and moving photographs of the original pioneers have been published, too, but few have packed the punch of Howard Grey’s extraordinary, historic shots taken at Waterloo Station 57 years ago. It would be hard to find pictures more emblematic of the Windrush era than these, yet for over five decades they remained not only unseen but unprinted, tucked away in a drawer in the photographer’s studio.It was early in 1962 when word spread in the Caribbean that the British were about to change the laws on immigration making it much more difficult for West Indians to come here to live Collapse
Paris art scene roars back to life … with a little help from Brexit
2 DAYS AGO - A reinvigorated contemporary art fair, opening this week in the Grand Palais, is one sign of a Expand
2 DAYS AGO - A reinvigorated contemporary art fair, opening this week in the Grand Palais, is one sign of a renaissance for the French capital“If our generation did not reinvigorate the French art market, what would we be leaving to the younger people?” asks Jennifer Flay, director of the international fair of contemporary art in Paris. “So we decided to take ourselves seriously.”As the 46th Foire internationale d’art contemporain (FIAC) prepares to open the doors of the Grand Palais this week, it is clear that not only did Flay and her colleagues achieve their goal, but they also created an environment in which artists and their work could flourish. The fair has gone from dusty irrelevance during a long sojourn in the suburbs to a glittering fixture on the art world calendar. Continue reading... Collapse
How an ambitious young David Hockney tried to kick-start his career
2 DAYS AGO - Letters from the archives of the Wakefield gallery show he had the chutzpah every young artist Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Letters from the archives of the Wakefield gallery show he had the chutzpah every young artist needsActs of audacious self-promotion in the contemporary art world now tend to be linked to names such as Damien Hirst or Tracey Emin, the Young British Artists who grabbed public attention in the 1990s. But research in the archives of a Yorkshire gallery has revealed that in the 1960s a student called David Hockney was also capable of a bold stunt.The aspiring artist invited a leading light of the Yorkshire art scene to Skipton to see some of his first public paintings, according to a letter discovered by curators preparing an exhibition at the Hepworth Wakefield. Continue reading... Collapse
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Attacker Used Eye Reflections in Pop Star’s Photos to Locate Her Home
1 HR AGO - A man who attacked a pop star in Japan reportedly managed to find out where she lived by studying Expand
1 HR AGO - A man who attacked a pop star in Japan reportedly managed to find out where she lived by studying the reflections in her eyes in photos she posted to social media. NHK World-Japan reports that 26-year-old Hibiki Sato was indicted last week for the attack last month on the “idol”, who’s in her 20s. As […] Collapse
New Image Sensor Could Make Blown Highlights a Thing of the Past
3 HRS AGO - German researchers have created a new high dynamic range (HDR) CMOS image sensor that features a Expand
3 HRS AGO - German researchers have created a new high dynamic range (HDR) CMOS image sensor that features a new pixel design that could pretty much do away with blown highlights. While traditional CMOS sensors have pixels that “clip” and stop capturing highlight data when they’re fully saturated — all additional data is lost in those areas of […] Collapse
Lillie Art Gallery, Glasgow: Glasgow Society of Women Artists
8 HRS AGO - Until 31 Oct The long-established Glasgow Society of Women Artists' holds its annual exhibition Expand
8 HRS AGO - Until 31 Oct The long-established Glasgow Society of Women Artists' holds its annual exhibition at the Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie, showcasing the work of exceptional women artists, in myriad genres and styles including original painting, printmaking, photography, jewellery, textiles, ceramics and sculpture. Collapse
The gold standard in social housing design | Letters
1 DAY AGO - After Norwich’s Goldsmith Street was awarded the Stirling prize, readers discuss the ability of Expand
1 DAY AGO - After Norwich’s Goldsmith Street was awarded the Stirling prize, readers discuss the ability of councils to build more homes, what constitutes high-quality housing, and the insecurity of being a private tenantIt was gratifying to learn that the RIBA Stirling prize has been awarded for Norwich council’s Goldsmith Street during the centenary year of Christopher Addison’s Homes Fit for Heroes initiative (Award for best new UK building goes to council housing project for first time, 9 October).As Oliver Wainwright reports, the council could build more housing if right to buy was reformed – or, better still, abolished. When the scheme was first introduced in 1979, Norwich councillors – led by their housing chair, the late Lady Patricia Hollis – took a stand against the Thatcher government by refusing to treat sales as an urgent priority. The minister responsible, Michael Heseltine, sent in Whitehall officials to oversee sales for several years. Let’s hope that in future councils will be Collapse
The big picture: Tony Ray-Jones goes in search of Englishness
1 DAY AGO - The precocious photographer died young but his work was a major influence on the likes of Martin Expand
1 DAY AGO - The precocious photographer died young but his work was a major influence on the likes of Martin ParrTony Ray-Jones took this picture at the Windsor horse show in 1967. He was 25, and engaged in an all-consuming personal project to capture the essence of “the English way of life … before it becomes more Americanised”. A precocious talent, Ray-Jones had won a scholarship from the London School of Printing to study at Yale School of Art when he was 19. He befriended the freewheeling young stars of American photography, Garry Winogrand and Joel Meyerowitz, was mentored by Richard Avedon and returned home in 1965 with notebooks full of strategy. “Get more involved (talk to people),” began one typical list of these notes to self. “Stay with the subject matter (be patient). See if everything in the background relates to the subject matter. NO MIDDLE DISTANCE.”With these principles in mind, Ray-Jones took himself off in a camper van in search of Englishness. He found a good deal of it on Collapse
The last of the Windrush arrivals in 1962 – in pictures
2 DAYS AGO - In 1962, the young photographer Howard Grey captured the last of the Windrush immigrants as they Expand
2 DAYS AGO - In 1962, the young photographer Howard Grey captured the last of the Windrush immigrants as they disembarked from the boat train at Waterloo station in London. The extraordinary pictures he took, however, were not processed for more than five decades until advances in scanning technology brought the underexposed negatives to life. Here the photographer talks us through some of his favourite images from the three films he exposed. See more at autographabp-iadl.co.ukRead an interview with Howard Grey Continue reading... Collapse
Why mathematicians just can’t quit their blackboards
2 DAYS AGO - Photographer Jessica Wynne captures the peculiar devotion of academics to working out their Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Photographer Jessica Wynne captures the peculiar devotion of academics to working out their problems with chalkAnother year, another wave of students trampling across autumn leaves, making their way to their first lectures heady with a cocktail of excitement, apprehension and a nasty hangover. But while every year brings new faces, one feature of the academic landscape remains ever-present: the huge, imposing blackboards.Now photographer Jessica Wynne, a professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, has thrown a spotlight on this workhorse of academic endeavour, travelling across the US and beyond to capture the blackboards of mathematicians. Continue reading... Collapse
More than tragic muses: female pre-Raphaelite artists finally take flight
2 DAYS AGO - After years of neglect, the female painters and makers of the pre-Raphaelite era are getting their Expand
2 DAYS AGO - After years of neglect, the female painters and makers of the pre-Raphaelite era are getting their first dedicated exhibition – and it’s enough to make any grandmaster look to his laurelsAt first glance, Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamund looks like a classic piece of pre-Raphaelite art. It shows the moment when Henry II’s queen Eleanor, according to legend, discovers her husband’s sequestered mistress in her secret hiding place and dramatically offers Rosamund the choice of death by dagger or poison. The scene was a firm favourite with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones. It had everything: the opportunity to go full-medieval, with leaded gothic windows and flowing gauzy gowns and Rosamund’s unloosed wavy red hair. The allegorical binaries, too, could be laid on thick – enraged Eleanor is accompanied by a diabolic crew of apes and lizards, while cowering Rosamund is circled by fluttering doves and cupids. Finally, there was the irresistible chance to work with a magnificent Collapse
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Wandsworth Business Awards 2019 Winners!
2 HRS AGO - The Wandsworth Business Awards, developed and organised by Wandsworth Chamber of Commerce Expand
2 HRS AGO - The Wandsworth Business Awards, developed and organised by Wandsworth Chamber of Commerce took place at the Roehampton Club on Friday 11 October, and Tooting businesses won or were runners-up in every category! Here’s the full list...
Business of the Year
Winner – Minar Jewellers
Best Business for Marketing & Social Media
Winner – Aim Solutions
Highly commended – Poppy’s Funerals
Highly commended – Hetu
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Duff House, Aberdeenshire: Claude Monet – A Seascape, Shipping by Moonlight
7 HRS AGO - Until 2020 Claude Monet's Impressionist masterpiece A Seascape, Shipping by Moonlight features at Expand
7 HRS AGO - Until 2020 Claude Monet's Impressionist masterpiece A Seascape, Shipping by Moonlight features at Duff House, Aberdeenshire, in its diverse autumn programme of exhibitions. Collapse
Dress like your life depends on it': art's most glamorous and scandalous nightclubs
11 HRS AGO - Fuelled by booze and fleeing the humdrum, they dressed and danced like their lives depended on it. Expand
11 HRS AGO - Fuelled by booze and fleeing the humdrum, they dressed and danced like their lives depended on it. We celebrate the heyday of racy caverns crammed with art and attitudeThe Cave of the Golden Calf had such a scandalous reputation that a high society divorce case once cited the mere act of attendance as evidence of dubious character. The doorway to the notorious Mayfair club stood at the top of a steep set of steps and was illuminated by a single electric light bulb. A panel set in the wall showed the titular calf in a state of tumescence, flanked by phalluses hanging limp.Opened in June 1912 by Frida Strindberg – writer, bohemian and ex-wife of playwright August – the Cave of the Golden Calf was named after the idol erected by the Israelites at Mount Sinai, and cultivated an appropriately pagan image. The London establishment pronounced itself England’s first and only artistic cabaret and its heady decor was provided by artists of the moment: Spencer Gore, Wyndham Lewis, Jacob Collapse
Charlotte Perriand: happiness by design
1 DAY AGO - Louis Vuitton Foundation, ParisThe visionary French architect and designer is celebrated in a new Expand
1 DAY AGO - Louis Vuitton Foundation, ParisThe visionary French architect and designer is celebrated in a new exhibition – although, as in life, her generous, joy-filled work is partially obscured by that of her male contemporariesIn most of the photographs of Charlotte Perriand, whether as a precocious pioneer in the 1920s or as a contented old woman in the 1990s, she is smiling. In one of the most famous you can’t tell, as she turns her naked back to the camera in order to salute with upraised arms a snowy mountain landscape, but you can guess that she is. It is certainly an exultant image. The famous creators with whom she worked – Le Corbusier, Fernand Léger, Isamu Noguchi – are more often shown solemn and serious, in keeping with their image as men of destiny.There are many things that can be said about Perriand (1903-99) – that she was the principal author of some of the 20th century’s most memorable pieces of furniture, that she could be as inventive with traditional materials such as Collapse
All aboard: London transport seat designs – in pictures
2 DAYS AGO - As a boy, Andrew Martin’s father worked for British Rail, and he soon developed a passion for Expand
2 DAYS AGO - As a boy, Andrew Martin’s father worked for British Rail, and he soon developed a passion for railways. He’s written a number of books on the subject and has now turned his attention to moquettes, the thick fabrics seen on London transport and created by leading designers and artists of their era, such as Paul Nash. “Londoners are spoiled really,” says Martin. “They have this soft material that’s often beautifully coloured and carefully designed. They spend half their lives on public transport; I think they should know more about what they’re sitting on.” Seats of London (Safe Haven Books, £12.99) by Andrew Martin is available from London Transport Museum Continue reading... Collapse
Elizabeth Peyton: Aire and Angels review – beautiful loners
2 DAYS AGO - National Portrait Gallery, LondonA retrospective of the New York artist’s ethereal portraits is Expand
2 DAYS AGO - National Portrait Gallery, LondonA retrospective of the New York artist’s ethereal portraits is both fabulous and frustratingThe National Portrait Gallery’s mini-retrospective of New York painter Elizabeth Peyton offers a heart-swelling, eye-pleasing parade of exquisite faces, from the gifted and famous to the merely really good-looking.Peyton rose to fame in the 1990s for painting beautiful boys – from friends to pop stars – and has been stereotyped and belittled for it since. But I love these works for their freshness, vivid colour and immediacy. Peyton gives us unabashed, rapturous admiration and desire. She takes the priapic male screen idol or rock god and melts his symbolic phallus in the heat of the female gaze, in intense paintings small enough to hold. In Peyton’s world of female looking and longing, men are dream figures as ethereal and alluring as unicorns, more beautiful than life. Not all men, obviously. Continue reading... Collapse
In pictures: Kenyan tribe fight back against rival raiders
2 DAYS AGO - First, the scouts see a footprint, then a suspected spy from a rival ethnic group, scuttling off Expand
2 DAYS AGO - First, the scouts see a footprint, then a suspected spy from a rival ethnic group, scuttling off into the bush. Expecting an attack, young men grab their guns and mothers grab their children – there Collapse
20 photographs of the week
2 DAYS AGO - Extinction Rebellion demonstrations, protests in Hong Kong, Turkey’s military offensive against Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Extinction Rebellion demonstrations, protests in Hong Kong, Turkey’s military offensive against Kurdish forces and Simone Biles at the artistic gymnastics world championships – the past seven days, as captured by the world’s best photojournalists Continue reading... Collapse
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