Monday, February 10, 2003

The Coming of Color Photography A friend emailed me this article found in Slate.  It's a pretty interesting article that discusses William Eggleston's First exhibit at MoMA.  He was described as "a somewhat eccentric Memphis native in his mid-30s who had come up to MoMA with a box full of slides and managed to convince that august and deliberate institution to grant him their very first one-man exhibition of color photography." 4:51:28 PM     comment [] Arts Briefing I ran across this in the Arts Briefing section of the NY Times.  PORTRAIT OF THE ARTISTS From behind the art come the faces that are the focus of the exhibition that opens on Friday at the Smithsonian Institution's International Gallery in Washington. These faces belong to artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Alexander Calder, Chuck Close, Salvador Dalí, Helen Frankenthaler, Jackson Pollock and John Singer Sargent. The photographs were taken by people like Zaida Ben-Yusuf and Alice Boughton, who were early members of Alfred Stieglitz's circle, and by latter-day photographers like Robert Mapplethorpe and Arnold Newman. Organized by the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery last year in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of ARTnews magazine, this who's who of the art world consists of 100 photographs from its pages, as well as some previously unpublished images. "Portrait of the Art Word: A Century of ARTnews Photographs" continues through April 6. 8:46:55 AM     comment []

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