Showing posts with label Painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Painting. Show all posts

Sunday, November 5, 2017

Carolee Schneemann And The Naked Meat Joy

"I take the position that I do not ask anyone else to do what I myself would not do and using myself as subject . . ." Carolee Schneemann.

 Meat Joy, a performance that Carolee Schneemann debuted at the Festival of Free Expression in Paris in 1964, the artist and several of her friends writhed on the floor while rubbing raw fish, chicken, and sausages across their half-naked bodies. chromogenic color print of the performance in New York, 5 × 4″ (© 2017 Carolee Schneemann, courtesy the artist, P.P.O.W, and Galerie Lelong, New York, photo by Al Giese)

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

The Partition Museum

Installation In Amritsar Partition Museum
Novelist, journalist Kishwar Desai, the driving force behind the first  museum wholly dedicated to the partition of India, told Hindustan Times “In the 50th year of Independence and Partition, I started working on Manto’s stories for television. It was then that I thought there should be a museum to Partition and it has taken me two decades to translate this dream into reality,”.

Saturday, October 28, 2017

Mona Lisa Lips And A Fresh Book On Gay Da Vinci

Walter Isaacson, who has written on Einstein, Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, says da Vinci is the ultimate example of combining art and science, whose insights, innovations and inventions were often decades, centuries and sometime half-a-millennia ahead of their time.