ALIAS MAN RAY : THE ART OF REINVENTION Nov 17, 2009
After being introduced to New York art circles by photographer and gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz, he went off to Paris - the center of experimental artand was embraced by the avant-garde. The year was 1921 and Man Ray was 31. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Photography: The Old Master of Majesty Ansel Adams: 1902-1984 Oct 29, 2009
Recalled Adams: "I came home thinking, 'Now photography exists!' " Adams' new direction was fixed and his success launched by the dean of American photography, Alfred Stieglitz, who in 1936 gave him his first show in New York City. Adams' uncompromising craftsmanship helped pioneer the growing public recognition of photography as an art form. (Time.com)
2 B-CU students honored as standouts Oct 12, 2009
An adjunct professor of art history at Stetson University will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday on "Alfred Stieglitz: Prophet of Modernism," part of a lecture series on Oscar Bluemner. James Murphy's talk will be in Room 25 of the Stetson Instructional Media Center of the duPont-Ball Library, 134 E. Minnesota Ave., DeLand. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
A rare Chicago visit by a Caravaggio Oct 4, 2009
This exhibition at the Phillips Collection includes 60 photographs by Man Ray, another 40 by such contemporaries as Walker Evans and Alfred Stieglitz, and 20 African artifacts that appear in the images. (Also of note on the Man Ray front is Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention, which looks at the artist s Jewish roots. (Boston Globe)
TV review: O'Keeffe bio starts way too slowly Sep 20, 2009
Under Bob Balaban's workmanlike direction, from Michael Cristofer's script, the film bounces gently along like a tumbleweed across the New Mexico desert as O'Keeffe arrives in New York, meets photographer Alfred Stieglitz, moves in with him and marries him after his first wife gets fed up with his open-bedroom-door policy and divorces him. It isn't a big surprise to us, and shouldn't be to O'Keeffe, that Stieglitz isn't any more faithful to her than he was to his first wife. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Allen Channels O'Keeffe in TV Film Sep 20, 2009
A new Lifetime film, "Georgia O'Keeffe," provides a telling glimpse through the framework of her love affair, collaboration and emotional tug-of-war with photographer Alfred Stieglitz ... A new Lifetime film, "Georgia O'Keeffe," provides a telling glimpse through the framework of her love affair, collaboration and emotional tug-of-war with photographer Alfred Stieglitz. (Multichannel News)
Lifetime’s ‘Georgia O’Keeffe’ paints a flat picture Sep 19, 2009
They just are, and Georgia O Keeffe, a workmanlike dramatization of the long affair between O Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, sadly fails to break the mold. Airing tonight at 9, the Lifetime TV movie stars Jeremy Irons as Stieglitz and Joan Allen (who is also one of the producers) as O Keeffe. (Boston Globe)
Lifetime biopic 'humanizes' artist Georgia O'Keeffe Sep 18, 2009
As in 1991, when and Christopher Plummer emotionally pummeled each other in A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz on PBS' American Playhouse, it's not about the art, it's about well, the drama, scandal and betrayal. "Who'd be interested if it were just about art?" says Barbara Buhler Lynes, curator of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in , a leading O'Keeffe scholar and a consultant on the film. (USA Today -- Life)
Art.view: Ars domestica Aug 16, 2009
In 1949 Georgia O'Keeffe donated 19 works by her late husband, Alfred Stieglitz, writing to Phillips, I think they will be very much at home with you. In 1923 Phillips shelled out a small fortune ($125,000) for Pierre-Auguste Renoir s , anticipating it would be the collection s most popular work. (The Economist)
The paradise that she found Jul 31, 2009
Her husband, photographer and impresario Alfred Stieglitz, promoted her career throughout their enduring but complicated marriage. In New Mexico she became something of a recluse, a slender, weathered woman who often wore men s clothes. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Images of Bennington and beyond Jul 25, 2009
The everywhere-else photographers include three who are even better known than Hine: Ansel Adams and Lee Friedlander (each with six images) and Alfred Stieglitz (with eight). Just as The Quality of Place is divided geographically, so is it - inevitably - divided artistically. (Boston Globe)
Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George Jul 22, 2009
In 1916, photographer Alfred Stieglitz was asked to look at some drawings done by a then-unknown art teacher named Georgia O Keeffe ... Alfred Stieglitz remained in New York; the couple stayed married and corresponded frequently, but actual visits grew farther apart. (Suite101.com)
Court: O'Keeffe Museum has no right to Fisk University art Jul 16, 2009
The four other works in the Alfred Stieglitz Collection, including O'Keeffe's Radiator Building painting, were given to the museum later ... "The expense the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum has forced Fisk to incur in its effort to gain ownership of the Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Modern Art could have been committed to scholarships for our students," she said. (USA Today -- Life)
‘Dove/O’Keeffe’ exhibit shines at Clark Art Institute Jul 12, 2009
The story s one thing, and it s intriguing: We learn how the two artists influence on each other was mediated by Alfred Stieglitz, who showed first Dove s work and then O Keeffe s at 291, his maverick New York gallery; how Stieglitz and O Keeffe became lovers in 1918, the same year O Keeffe finally met Dove; and how the two artists kept finding sustenance in each other s work even as their paths diverged. But the pictures are the main attraction. (Boston Globe)
Art review: Adams tops O'Keeffe at SFMOMA Jun 3, 2009
Photographer and impresario Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), O'Keeffe's husband and Adams' mentor, once thought it persuasive to highlight affinities between the modernist paintings that he sponsored as a gallerist and photographic works, including Adams' and his own, for which he claimed high art status. But despite SFMOMA's addition of an exciting miscellany of works from its own collection as context, "Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams" cannot - perhaps no show could - evoke the climate of... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Critic's picks - visual art May 17, 2009
The two were introduced by Alfred Stieglitz, who would later become O'Keeffe's husband. June 7-Sept. (Boston Globe)
'Sympathy' gives form to a poet's eloquence Apr 12, 2009
He pays tribute to the acclaimed fine-art photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who, according to King's statement for the show, "strived to create images that gave the viewer the same emotional experience as the photographer had in making the photograph.". In tying this mindset to a stirring poem, King has experimented with -- and succeeded in -- tying his exhibition space to the meaning of his art. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
