Earlier this week
...for Look Magazine, the exhibit presented by New York's Westwood Gallery has nothing of the lacquered Chanel -- by Horst or Man Ray, say -- to which we are most accustomed. Here, Mademoiselle slouches beside a client. Eyes on the ground, her whippet-like...
...photographers who have had access to the interesting places and people in the world of art. Photographers such as André Kertész, Man Ray, Yousuf Karsh, Arnold Newman and Robert Mapplethorpe took portraits of artists, their families, friends, and...
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...up with African inspirations. Looking at a fashion exhibition of Yves Saint Laurent is a bit like studying the photographs of Man Ray: both in their own fields were artists who did almost everything first and defined the 20th  century. The challenge for...
...home not just of French intellectuals and artists such as Sartre and Matisse but of a foreign galaxy, too, from America’s Man Ray to Romania’s Brancusi and Russia’s Stravinsky. Moreover, as Frederic Spotts points out, Hitler’s intent was not to subjugate...
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...a special visit to the grave of another one of my heroes, French music icon Serge Gainsbourg. During his time in Paris, Man Ray had an incendiary love affair with his muse Kiki of Montparnasse. She was the focus of much of his work. Man Ray's obsession...
...and spanning nearly 40 years, the show will also feature Duchamp’s readymades and optical experiments. It will include Man Ray’s rayographs (cameraless photographs), many of the iconic photographs of the interwar years, as well as examples of his many...
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