Art Exhibition – Andy Warhol’s Late Self-Portraits
In a room at the end of the Graves Gallery in Sheffield hangs a small collection of works Andy made towards the end of his life. The exhibition is comprised of, among other works, the well-recognised 1986 large screen prints, death-centred paintings and a collection of photographs of Andy in drag. There are also recordings...
Caption of the Week: Contest.
According to the New York Times, Depression and Brilliance go hand in hand. Test your creativity by captioning a still from “Rocks In My Pockets,” a funny film about depression, currently in production. There will be prizes! Rules: Each Thursday from June 28th through August 30th we will post a still from “Rocks in My Pockets.” ...
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Sonos Studio, First-Ever Listening Gallery, Opens in Los Angeles
May 13th marked the official opening in Los Angeles of Sonos Studio, the first-ever acoustically-designed gallery to celebrate music listening – or, more precisely – listening out loud. The space will explore the intersection of music, art, and technology by hosting exhibitions, intimate concerts, listening parties, film screenings, lectures, workshops, and more. Strategically located in...
Merry Summer Solstice!
Dark Shadows of Economic Meltdown, Global Warming and Personal Worries are waving their ugly arms at us again. Will they win? Will they grasp our warm hearts and squeeze the living juices out of them? Once a year Sunlight beats the shadows with it’s golden broom into the charcoal dust. Never fear. Sun and Light make...
This is Whitechapel
40 years ago Photo Journalist Ian Berry was commissioned to photograph the community of Whitechapel. The aim of this venture was to reach out to the community and entice them into the existing local gallery. Upon speaking to Ian I discovered that “the then curator of the Whitechapel gallery was very helpful, it had been...
Travels Around Europe: Part One
Travels Around Europe: Part One Summer 2011 consisted of many things for me, but the best by far was a trip around France, Italy and the Netherlands. Travelling around Europe by train for a month with my boyfriend has left me with so many fantastic memories and I have been lucky enough to see the...
The Great British Seaside
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Telling the Truth
Documentary Photography and Photojournalism as Tool and Art in the Chinese Context[1] The invention of photography as the first possibility of the ‘fixation of shadows’ falls into the year 1839 and soon spread from Europe to the rest of the world. In China people were also engaged in photography, but – as in the rest...
