Today’s Google doodle in Mexico is dedicated to cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa, who celebrates his 106th birthday today! Friday we’re screening the Figueroa documentary —for free!
Willem de Kooning
“I don’t paint to live, I live to paint.” - Willem de Kooning
A leading figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement, famed artist Willem de Kooning was born on this day in 1904 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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Miradas Multiples is a new documentary on Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa, who collaborated with directors as diverse as Luis Bunuel and John Huston. The documentary is screening at LACMA on Friday. We’re also mounting an entire exhibition devoted to Figueroa this fall.
In the portion of the Stanley Kubrick exhibition that deals with his abandoned Aryan Papers project, artists Jane and Louise Wilson created a video project called Unfolding the Aryan Papers, which features actress Joanna ter Steege—the same woman who was to be the star of Kubrick’s film.
The Wilson sisters will be at LACMA to discuss Unfolding the Aryan Papers and other projects this Thursday. Free!
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Versailles ‘73—screening tonight at LACMA!
The function of typography is the art of communication - where the image of letters are linked together into lines of words, of sentences and have an ease that is inherent in the design of the typeface. When we are conscious of the direct impact of the author, we seize the flow of his ideas as they stream across the page.—Jack Stauffacher
Jack Stauffacher will be at LACMA tonight (April 16) for a conversation about his work and practice, in connection with the exhibition Jack Stauffacher: Typographic Experiments, on view through July 21.
(from “The Eyes of Nemesis: Typographic Reflections on the Book,” a 1962 lecture reprinted in A Typographic Journey, 1999)
Left: photo courtesy Dennis Letbetter; Right: Jack Werner Stauffacher, Print from Wooden Letters from 300 Broadway, 1998, Letterpress, Gift of the 2012 Decorative Arts and Design Acquisition Committee. (DA2)
“There’s a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We’re in a world that’s very fast, so things that slow you for a minute—give you pause—are good.”
—Glenn LigonGlenn Ligon, our current 100 Artists featured artist, discusses his interest in rendering text in paint. Seen here is opening night of the 2011 Glenn Ligon: AMERICA exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, as featured in the Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 6 episode, History (2012).
WATCH: Glenn Ligon in “History” [available in the U.S. only] | Additional videos
On Unframed today, behind-the-scenes rehearsal pics for this Friday’s free performance by Liz Glynn, inspired by Alexander Calder’s Three Quintains (Hello Girls). More info on Friday’s performance.
Top: Alexander Calder, Three Quintains (Hello Girls), 1964, Art Museum Council Fund, © Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
