🎨 Robert Longo
No Threat, 2018
charcoal on mounted paper
Profile:
Nicola D'Ascenzo's "His Master's Voice" stained-glass window
"And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling."
- Bruce Chatwin
Lew Baxter in Her Own Money, 1922
This is a print from the great French photographer Roger Corbeau's silent Hollywood film collection.
With Jane Fonda
📷 Douglas Kirkland, 1969
"Perhaps he is the smudged meeting place of art cinema & the sort of uninhibited catering to erotic taste that the cinema may yet discover as its commercial destiny."
- David Thomson
With Jane Fonda
📷 Douglas Kirkland, 1969
"Perhaps he is the smudged meeting place of art cinema & the sort of uninhibited catering to erotic taste that the cinema may yet discover as its commercial destiny."
- David Thomson
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGOU...
The telephone number of the Hotel Pennsylvania, near Penn Station in Manhattan. Try calling (212) 736-5000: you're in for a treat!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGOU...
The telephone number of the Hotel Pennsylvania, near Penn Station in Manhattan. Try calling (212) 736-5000: you're in for a treat!
📷 Sefton Samuels, 1969
"I never heard such an expressive player: she would linger on one note for two long minutes, playing with such variety that one might have been hearing a whole composition."
- Charles Beare
📷 Sefton Samuels, 1969
"I never heard such an expressive player: she would linger on one note for two long minutes, playing with such variety that one might have been hearing a whole composition."
- Charles Beare
📷 Sophie Bassouls, 1975
"She cast herself as a revolutionary. And we have liked our civil rights activists firmly in the reform tradition, and we have liked our revolutionaries male."
- Jane Kamensky
📷 Sophie Bassouls, 1975
"She cast herself as a revolutionary. And we have liked our civil rights activists firmly in the reform tradition, and we have liked our revolutionaries male."
- Jane Kamensky
📷 Friedman-Abeles, 1965
NYPL digital collection
"When we were writing together, if I would ask him to add even a grace note to the song, he would sit down and write a whole new melody."
- Sammy Cahn
📷 Friedman-Abeles, 1965
NYPL digital collection
"When we were writing together, if I would ask him to add even a grace note to the song, he would sit down and write a whole new melody."
- Sammy Cahn
📷 Self-portrait, Paris, c. 1937
"To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs. By that definition I am an amateur."
📷 Self-portrait, Paris, c. 1937
"To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs. By that definition I am an amateur."
📷 Philippe Halsman, 1963
"Jules is at the top, & I’m not even slightly put off by the fact that he’d probably agree. He had a huge influence on me, to the exclusion of many other greats, I’m sure, so we may both be wrong."
- Garry Trudeau
📷 Philippe Halsman, 1963
"Jules is at the top, & I’m not even slightly put off by the fact that he’d probably agree. He had a huge influence on me, to the exclusion of many other greats, I’m sure, so we may both be wrong."
- Garry Trudeau
📷 David Redfern, New Orleans, 1982
“James had one of the great voices in American popular music, with a huge range, a multiplicity of tones and vast reserves of volume.”
- Jon Pareles
📷 David Redfern, New Orleans, 1982
“James had one of the great voices in American popular music, with a huge range, a multiplicity of tones and vast reserves of volume.”
- Jon Pareles
What an extraordinary figure, and what a legacy.
Photograph by Thomas Struth, one of the artists she long represented.
What an extraordinary figure, and what a legacy.
Photograph by Thomas Struth, one of the artists she long represented.
📷 Frans Schellekens, Amsterdam, 1997
"Golson’s mysterious solos seemed to start in the middle of one big idea and end in the middle of another."
- Ben Ratliff
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoXX...
📷 Frans Schellekens, Amsterdam, 1997
"Golson’s mysterious solos seemed to start in the middle of one big idea and end in the middle of another."
- Ben Ratliff
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoXX...
My favourite Tom Jobim portrait is this one by Otto Stupakoff, taken at Ipanema Beach in 1964.
Heitor Villa-Lobos (his hero) once said to him:
"My son, the outer ear has nothing to do with the inner ear."
My favourite Tom Jobim portrait is this one by Otto Stupakoff, taken at Ipanema Beach in 1964.
Heitor Villa-Lobos (his hero) once said to him:
"My son, the outer ear has nothing to do with the inner ear."
📷 Gisèle Freund, 1939
Larry McMurtry called Proust's Remembrance of Things Past & Woolf's Diaries "the White Nile & the Blue Nile of language." But Edith Sitwell said, "Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting."
📷 Gisèle Freund, 1939
Larry McMurtry called Proust's Remembrance of Things Past & Woolf's Diaries "the White Nile & the Blue Nile of language." But Edith Sitwell said, "Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting."
📷 Gisèle Freund, 1939
Larry McMurtry called Proust's Remembrance of Things Past & Woolf's Diaries "the White Nile & the Blue Nile of language." But Edith Sitwell said, "Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting."
📷 Krysztof Gieraltowski
"In principle, I write music that I would like to hear, music that is an expression of my own tastes, wishes and desires. I am offering audiences my own internal truth."
Symphonic Variations:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=px7F...
📷 Krysztof Gieraltowski
"In principle, I write music that I would like to hear, music that is an expression of my own tastes, wishes and desires. I am offering audiences my own internal truth."
Symphonic Variations:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=px7F...
Possibly my month
Possibly my month
📷 Slim Aarons, 1955
"He was a passionate, difficult man, capable of cruelty as well as of great kindness & charm, & despite all his worldly success he never found what he wanted."
- Selina Hastings
📷 Slim Aarons, 1955
"He was a passionate, difficult man, capable of cruelty as well as of great kindness & charm, & despite all his worldly success he never found what he wanted."
- Selina Hastings
Wear hoddin grey, an' a that;
Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine;
A Man's a Man for a' that
I'll be dining on hamely fare on Burns Night, & I always wear hoddin grey, an' a that. So I'm all set
🎨 Robert Burns by Alexander Nasmyth, 1828
Wear hoddin grey, an' a that;
Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine;
A Man's a Man for a' that
I'll be dining on hamely fare on Burns Night, & I always wear hoddin grey, an' a that. So I'm all set
🎨 Robert Burns by Alexander Nasmyth, 1828
I didn’t know that the Swedish lyrics, by Beppe Wolgers, predate Gene Lees’ English lyrics, written for Tony Bennett.
One cigarette worth of beautiful, charming music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTWA...
I didn’t know that the Swedish lyrics, by Beppe Wolgers, predate Gene Lees’ English lyrics, written for Tony Bennett.
One cigarette worth of beautiful, charming music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTWA...