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- National Portrait Gallery London WC2
- The Akron Beacon Journal hio Dottie Shinn column: Two shows fill…
- City Section has plenty of stars
National Portrait Gallery London WC2
The bserver – Oct 28, 2007
In creating Monroe’s death mask as an endlessly recyclable vision of celebrity and packaged sex Warhol also made Marilyn his own. With his silkscreen he pressed her glamour into himself. There is a Monroe room at the Portrait Gallery which features among other things Hamilton’s My Marilyn a reworking of some of the star’s photo contact sheets which are marked up with her self-hating crossings out of images only one of which emerges as ‘good’ and Claes ldenburg’s Ghost Wardrobe For MM which is a series of strings on coathangers suggesting the annihilation brought about by fame. These cerebral takes on the star’s death are dwarfed by Warhol’s simple eight-frame screen print. His soup can repetition found its soul in the combination of sex and death that Monroe afforded. He was the opposite of a conceptual artist in many ways dyslexic to the point of illiteracy but the former ad-man knew the most powerful images were the ones that did not think. Warhol never saw himself as a Pop Artist; for a while he took to calling himself a ‘commonest’ bestowing instant fame on unsuspecting individuals with his car-crash pictures one of which is at the Gagosian and mesmerising screen tests which can be seen at the NPG.
The Akron Beacon Journal hio Dottie Shinn column: Two shows fill…
Free with registration – Akron Beacon Journal – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 28, 2007
During the buildup to construction of the addition and its realization we were told repeatedly that once the new structure opened the museum would be able to show the wonderful art bounty that until now had been locked away in storage waiting for the day when there would be room and galleries enough to show it all. This weekend the museum begins to reveal some of those treasures in Close to Home — Watercolors by William Sommer and Raphael Gleitsmann. The watercolors of these two masters are installed in the gallery next to Masumi Hayashi Meditations — Two Pilgrimages the first of four memorial exhibits dedicated to Hayashi’s work that will be shown in Akron and Cleveland. These works are nearly all owned by Hayashi’s estate and are being shown as a tribute to the artist who was killed in Cleveland 14 months ago. Hayashi was gunned down just outside the.
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City Section has plenty of stars
GatorBait.net – GatorBait.net (subscription) – Oct 28, 2007
com traveled through the City Section last week to evaluate prospects at Compton Dorsey and Inglewood. Check out the photo gallery that features Inglewood junior Shaquelle Evans (above) fast-rising senior and UCLA pledge Johnathan Franklin from Dorsey star junior defensive back Chris Metcalf from Compton and other top prospects from city.