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  • museumuesum:

    Lewis W. Hine

    photographs from the series Empire State (Misc. Workmen), 1931

    Steelworker standing on beam, gelatin silver print

    Man on girders, mooring mast, Empire State building, gelatin silver print, 12.1 x 9.4 cm.

    Icarus Atop Empire State Building (The Sky Boy), gelatin silver print, 8.8 x 6.5 cm.

    Man on hoisting ball, gelatin silver print, 11.9 x 9.2 cm.

  • lacma:

    Visionary artist and film director Hans Richter played a crucial role in establishing film as an art form in the first half of the twentieth century. When you enter Hans Richter: Encounters, you will immediately find yourself in the midst of Richter’s creative and artistic universe, ranging from his early portraits—done in pre-World War I Germany—through his Dada works and early abstract films, up to his cinematic works done in the U.S. As you will notice, film is everywhere in this exhibition interacting with the artworks on the wall.

    Hans Richter’s Filmstudie (Film Study)

    Hans Richter, Filmstudie (Film Study), 1928, © Hans Richter Estate

  • museumuesum:

    Joe Munroe

    Twenty-two students cramming into a telephone booth to try and establish a stacking record, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, California, 1959

  • THIS DAY IN ART HISTORY

    ummaannex:

    Today marks the 62nd anniversary of the ground-breaking 9th Street Art Exhibition (May 21-June 10 1951). 

    Installation view of the Ninth Street show, 1951

    Representative of New Art in the 20th Century, the Ninth Street Showwas the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde artists collectively known as the New York School.

    Click below to watch a video from 2010 of several participating artists reflecting on the exhibition.

  • manpodcast:

    This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Marianne Stockebrand, the curator of “Donald Judd: The Multicolored Works” and the former director of the Chinati Foundation. The program was taped before a live audience at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, where “The Multicolored Works” is on view through January 4.

    This is the first museum exhibition to focus on Judd’s use of color, and more specifically Judd’s use of color in the 1980s, when he discovered a process that enabled a new kind of sculpture. “The Multicolored Works” includes 23 Judd sculptures as well as works on paper and collages from the collection of the Judd Foundation that reveal Judd’s creative process. The gorgeous exhibition is a shoo-in to rank highly on critics’ year-end top-ten lists.

    This is the cover of a 2000 European book devoted to Judd’s work in color throughout his career. 

    How to listen to this week’s program: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See more images of art discussed on the program.

  • museumuesum:

    Linda Connor

    contact prints on printing-out paper from vintage glass plate negatives of Solar Eclipse from the collection of The Lick Observatory

    1893-1910, prints made 1977-1996

  • museumuesum:

    Pirkle Jones

    photographs from Portfolio Two, Published 1968

    Breaking Wave, Golden Gate, San Fransisco, 1952, gelatin silver print, 10 x 13 1/4 inches

    View of San Francisco in the Rain, 1952, gelatin silver print, 9 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches

    Figures in the Rain, San Francisco, 1955, gelatin silver print, 9 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches

    Sunset District and Pacific Ocean, San Francisco, 1951, gelatin silver print, 9 1/2 x 13 inches

    Breaking Wave, Golden Gate, San Francisco, 1952, gelatin silver print, 9 1/4 x 13 inches

    Cowboy, Arizona, 1957, gelatin silver print, 9 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches

  • artpadsf:

    Clayton Colvin

    Faded Photograph, 2013

    charcoal, ink, collaged linen, and acrylic on canvas

    16 by 20 in.

    Courtesy of beta pictoris gallery, Birmingham.

    Work by this artist will be available at ArtPadSF 2013.

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