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Decouvert grace a leur voyage a New York et leur visite du Whitney ou j'ai eu le plaisir de les guider.. Le prochain événement:           LA DÉCOUVERTE DE NEW-YORK DU 23 AVRIL AU 1° MAI. http://www.arco-jura.com/

check out his film  "A color Box 1935" on youtube ++++ Anecdocte: Lye's dazzling early experimental films brought him to the attention of Alfred Hitchcock, who asked him to do some hand-painted special effects for his 1936 film Secret agent , starring Peter Lorre and John Gielgud (who Lye had worked with the year before on his first direct-animated film Full fathom five ). Lye's task was to create a hand-painted fire for a scene involving a train wreck, but Lye took the job one step further and made it appear that the highly flammable nitrate film stock itself had caught fire in the projector. In Lye's vivid sequence, Storm c.1960-1965 Blade 1976 Film still from Free radicals 1958/1979 Harmonic 1960 the “scorched” film appeared to jerk on and off the screen, before melting into blackness. “My God, the thing's on fire!” shouted the projectionist. It was a special preview screening, and he had not been forewarned. The audience rushed for the...

Message from someone I know.... selling a house in SAINT GERMAIN EN LAYE..... Cette villa d'architecte se situe dans la banlieue ouest de Paris, rer direct en 20min Etoile, dans la ville très "chic" de St Germain en Laye, recherchée pour sa qualité de vie et de gestion et surtout de la présence du  Lycée International  et dès 2013 de Sciences Po. Cette maison est dans un état parfait, d'une construction particulièrement soignée elle possède toutes les qualités modernes d'isolation et de bien être, en plus d'un bel esthétisme. Nous nous proposons de créer une 4ème chambre si souhaité à la place du bureau. Voici un résumé : A pieds des commerces, à 1400mètres du RER, bus à 50m : centre et lycée international,. Quartier résidentiel recherché, dans allée privée, CALME absolu. PLEIN SUD, dans jardin planté clos de 1000m2, sans vis-à-vis, maison de  plain pied  de 135m2 actuel -possible 240m2.  Matériaux de prestige, marbre, isolation professionnell...

LIFE AFTER THE WHITNEY BIENNIAL Apr. 6, 2012 More Sharing Services Share | Share on email Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on google_plusone It seems like the  2012 Whitney Biennial  just opened, yet the museum has A healthy dose of new media is on the agenda, starting with the feminist video and installation artist  Sharon Hayes , who was in the last biennial. Hayes, whose work is known to deal with history, language and memory, is showing both new and old work in “There Is So Much I Want to Say to You,” June 21-Sept. 9, 2012. Next up is German abstract filmmaker  Oskar Fischinger  (1900-1967), June 28-Oct. 28, 2012, debuting what the Whitney calls “the first multiple screen film projection ever made.” No other details are revealed, but fans may cite Fischinger’s groundbreaking use of three screens for the film  Room of Light and Art , which premiered in Berlin in 1926. Forty-year-old painter and inkjet artist  Wade Guyton  is havin...

SUBJECTIVE HISTORIES OF SCULPTURE: JOSEPHINE MECKSEPER Image:  Josephine Meckseper   The Complete History of Postcontemporary Art , 2005. Courtesy the Artist, New York, and VG Bild-Kunst. Subjective Histories of Sculpture: Josephine Meckseper Monday, April 9, 2012 6:30pm SculptureCenter 44-19 Purves Street Long Island City Free admission SculptureCenter, in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, is excited to continue the artist-led lecture series  Subjective Histories of Sculpture . This program, initiated in 2006, furthers SculptureCenter's exploration of how contemporary artists think about sculpture; its history and its legacies. This year, three artists have been invited to present their own take on art history:  Lucy Skaer ,  Nairy Baghramian , and  Josephine Meckseper . Citing specific works, bodies of work, texts, or even personal anecdotes taken from inside and outside cultural production, ...