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blackjack (by Kalense Kid)
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Willem de Kooning, Door to the River, 1960. Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features biographer and critic Mark Stevens, one of the top experts on the life and art of Willem de Kooning. Along with co-author Annalyn Swan, Stevens wrote “de Kooning: An American Master,” which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for biography. Stevens has also worked as the art critic for New York magazine.
De Kooning is currently the subject of a major Museum of Modern Art retrospective. The exhibition, on view through Jan. 9, 2012, was curated by John Elderfield. I reviewed the exhibition on MAN here and here. This week’s banner features a detail from de Kooning’s …Whose Name Was Writ in Water (1975).
To download or subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, click here. To download the program directly, click here. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here. To see images of the artworks discussed during this week’s show, click here.
In our conversation, Stevens and I discuss:
His thoughts on the MoMA exhibition;
How knowing about de Kooning’s life can further appreciation and understanding of his art;
The importance of the figure — and in particular the female figure — was to de Kooning throughout his career; and
The several great series of Woman paintings — and how the Womans from the late 1940s may be underrated vis a vis the more famous 1950s Woman paintings.
In this week’s draft, Charlotte Eyerman joins me to discuss her Pacific Standard Time exhibition“Artistic Evolution: Southern California Artists at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.” Eyerman is the American director of the French Regional and American Museum Exchange and also works as an independent curator. She and I talk about how a many important artists, including Robert Irwin, Larry Bell and more, showed early works at the annual exhibitions of what is now the Natural History Museum, and how that work presages their more well-known art.
The Modern Art Notes Podcast is an independent production of Modern Art Notes Media. It is released under this Creative Commons license.
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(by Daniel Delidjakov)
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the brightest block in montreal
see the work of shutterbug jackie rueda
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Corinne Vionnet
cwnl:

Lunar Eclipse Over an Indian Peace Pagoda
Our Moon turned red last week. The reason was that during December 10, a total lunar eclipse occurred. The above digitally superimposed image mosaic captured the Moon many times during the eclipse, from before the Moon entered Earth’s shadow until after the Moon exited.
The image sequence was recorded over a Shanti Stupa Peace Pagota near the center of New Delhi, India, where the eclipse of the Moon was nearly, but not completely, total.
The red tint of the eclipsed Moon was created by sunlight first passing through the Earth’s atmosphere, which preferentially scatters blue light (making the sky blue) but passes and refracts red light, before reflecting back off the Moon. Differing amounts of clouds and volcanic dust in the Earth’s atmosphere make each lunar eclipse appear differently. The next total lunar eclipse will occur only in 2014.
Image Credit & Copyright: Chander Devgun (SPACE)
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(by lesser bear)
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baumloch (by ✈ Paul Hiller)
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The Southern Arm (by mj.foto)
perdure:

Auroral Storm, Tok, Alaska (by David Cartier)

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Cube Installation / CubeStories

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White and Blue (by mynameis_Marilei)
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Evgeny Lushpin.
http://www.lushpin.com/
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Trip to Niijima #08 (by Okano Yasushi)
8th Jan 201220:242,080 notes
Opaque  by  andbamnan