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Art: NYC streets, '30s show in Ottawa, Paris in the '50s

4:34 PM Sun, Jul 27, 2008 |
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Sometimes I'm out of words, just want to look at good pictures. From right now, from back when. Here are today's...


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A detail from a mural near the docks in Red Hook (Brooklyn) by Jake Dobkin (blog: Bluejake). His Flickr photostream includes a long view, head-on.

Jake also makes Streetsy: Daily Street Art.

via Traveler's Diagram


Worth a trip to Canada:

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Expectation, Richard Oelze, 1935-36, Museum of Modern Art, New York

This work by Oelze, a German surrealist (Wikipedia link), is part of an exhibition titled 1930s: The Making of "The New Man" at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, through Sept. 7.

via wood s lot, who writes that the exhibition

...brings together more than 200 paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs by artists from Germany, Russia, Italy, Spain, France, Mexico, the United States and Canada.

This international exhibition features works from eminent European Artists such as Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Max Ernst, and August Sander, and North American artists including Grant Wood, Jackson Pollock, Walker Evans and Alex Colville. Also showcased are works by Joan Miró, Diego Rivera, Alexander Rodchenko, Otto Dix, Lisette Model, Andrè Kertész, and Jean Arp.

Some other images from the show.


margnac_detail.jpgFound: Jean Paul Margnac: Paris Années cinquante (Set) Paris in the '50s. A photo set by Jean Paul Margnac at Flickr, what titles there are are in French. But two outstanding Kodachromes -- revelers in the earlies minutes of 1954, and a flower seller need no words.

Margnac's photostream is a wonder. He's asking for help identifying the musicians in a set from the Amougies Pop Music Festival in 1969.

via plep

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