Art&Culture

Hurry! Magnum Photo Collective’s Square Print Sale is happening now, but not for long—June 10, 8 a.m. EST to June 14, 11:59 p.m. EST.

There’s nothing better than artists on artists in my book. Whether that’s a cover, words, or images, artists on artists are 1000x more interesting (and insightful) than critics. Incidentally, I feel the same way about writers, philosophers, carpenters, etc.

Pitchfork writers can be smug. I think they get paid extra for smug word-count. Case in point…

Fortunately, I am not a stamp collector [footnote 1]. But…

“Who would pay that much for a pair of speakers?” Feel free to replace “speakers” with any other piece of hifi kit and you have all the makings of a fine, old, hifi whine.

This is the question I’ve been asked most often over the years—Is you Eames chair comfortable?

Jeff Koons’ Rabbit, a 41 x 19 x 12 in. stainless steel sculpture from 1986, fetched a fetching $91M at Christie’s “Port-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale” earlier this week. This figure represents the highest price paid for a work by a living artist.

What’s not to love. A picture book reproducing over 250 defaced, or is that re-faced?, record covers  from the collection of Greg Wooten.

spewedition is a publishing collective comprised of Japanese photographers/artists Daisuke Yokota, Naohiro Utagawa, and Koji Kitagawa. They publish the kind of thing I most enjoy—multimedia extravaganzas to have and hold and hear.

I wept when FilmStruck failed. I cried a thousand tears for lost access to Bergman, Tarkovsky, Fassbinder, Fellini, Agnès Varda, Kurosawa, Andrzej Wajda, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Fritz Lang and so, so many more. Well, I weep mo more.

Do you dig movies? Are you a fan of films? I am a devoted movie watcher, not necessarily goer, and I haven’t been this excited about a new flick since The Bride of Frankenstein.

Shyue Woon’s Dark Cities Trilogy is a collection of three books each telling its own story presented as a photographic novel where every page and image deepens the imagined worlds Woon invites us into. Having, holding, and experiencing Dark Cities Trilogy feels like living through […]

We are Made of Grass, Soil, and Trees is the latest photo book by Ayaka Yamamoto, published by T&M projects, and it is real beauty.

Are you a fan of contemporary photography? Cutting edge image-making at its finest? How about beautiful challenging images collected in a beautiful challenging book? If you answered “Yes” to any of the above, read on.

Twittering Machines took its name from the Paul Klee work “Twittering Machine” (Die Zwitscher-Maschine), from 1929. Today is the anniversary of Mr. Klee’s birth, December 18, 1879, so an appreciation is in order. Enjoy!