07.00 BST Midtown, New York City, 1975Mitch Epstein shot his first rolls of Kodachrome in 1973, while a student of Garry Winogrand. These early experiments with colour are collected in Silver + Chrome which is out now, published by Steidl. All photographs by Mitch Epstein Facebook Twitter Easter Parade, Fifth Avenue, New York City, 1974Between 1973 […]
07.00 BST Woman on Pier Looking Skyward, 2017Widely celebrated New York street photographer Harvey Stein is known, in part, for his ability to notice the beautiful, mundane and quirky aspects of human nature. In doing so, he elevates the everyday to a space of wonder. Coney Island People: 50 Years is published by Schiffer. All photographs: […]
07.00 BST Viroflay station, France, 2013A new exhibition aims to unveil an interesting and lesser-known aspect of Magnum photographers’ portfolios: assignments done on commission. Although rarely recognised as ‘Magnum work’ by a wider audience, it nonetheless tells a vital part of the Magnum story, and of the story of photography in general, which occupies a complex […]
07.00 GMT Jodi Bieber: Trapeze Act, Market Theatre Precinct, Johannesburg, 2012A new exhibition, A Female Gaze, looks at how street photography was embraced by women photographers throughout the 20th century: from the 1930s with Berenice Abbott’s documentation of New York City to images from Jodi Bieber’s 10-year project (1994 to 2004) focused on youth living on […]
18.40 GMT Last modified on Wed 10 Feb 2021 20.14 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Untitled (Studio), Kerry James Marshall, 2014. Photograph: HBO “I get up at 7.30 in the morning and then I’m at my computer working, thinking about new ideas, pushing along the projects that I’m involved in,” 70-year-old Sam […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 12 Jan 2021 09.27 GMT Couple in MG By the Arno, Florence, Italy, 1951Ruth Orkin (1921-85) grew up in Hollywood in its 20s and 30s heyday. She was given her first camera aged 10 and began photographing her friends and teachers. She took a bicycle trip across the US to New […]
15.10 GMT Last modified on Thu 17 Dec 2020 20.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Future Retrieval – Mycology Monday. Photograph: Courtesy of Fort Makers Last month, thousands of cars were lined up for miles in Dallas, Texas. This was not your average rush hour traffic jam or even a wait for […]
07.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 17 Dec 2020 07.28 GMT Dan Weiner, East End Avenue, New York, 1950Born in New York City in 1919, Weiner was exposed to the documentary photography of Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine while studying at the Pratt Institute. A member of the US Army Air Corps during the second world war, […]
21.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 10 Dec 2020 19.31 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan in Wild Mountain Thyme. Photograph: Kerry Brown/Bleecker Street If you’ve seen the trailer for Wild Mountain Thyme, writer-director John Patrick Shanley’s not-quite-a-romcom about two thirtysomething “star-crossed” (slow to settle into their inevitable […]
15.42 GMT Last modified on Thu 19 Nov 2020 15.43 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A still from Heaven’s Gate. Photograph: Ronald Grant For 40 years, Heaven’s Gate has been synonymous with “expensive flop”. And not just any expensive flop, but the type of boondoggle associated with the fussy indulgences of a […]
06.05 GMT Last modified on Thu 19 Nov 2020 06.17 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Garnet Rubio in Born to Be. Photograph: Kino Lorber / Film Forum Garnet Rubio moved to New York City from Texas at 19 with a singular mission: transitioning. While her friends attended college, Rubio worked as a […]
17.03 GMT Last modified on Fri 6 Nov 2020 17.39 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email George Condo: ‘It’s just not the same anymore to be dependent on anything, other than oneself.’ Photograph: Hauser and Wirth The New York City artist George Condo has become New York state artist George Condo, a surprising […]
16.33 GMT Last modified on Mon 2 Nov 2020 16.46 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Howardena Pindell: ‘When you look different, you can become a target for others’ unresolved issues, where they take out their rage on people who do not look like them.’ Photograph: Nathan Keay When New York artist Howardena […]
16.29 BST Last modified on Wed 21 Oct 2020 21.44 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Andres Serrano: ‘We want to believe what happened in the past stays in the past, history proves us wrong.’ Photograph: Carlo Allegri/Reuters The controversial New York artist Andres Serrano has found himself in an unlikely corner of […]
14.00 BST Last modified on Mon 19 Oct 2020 14.20 BST Double exposure of Andy Warhol at The Factory at Union Square, Manhattan, New York City, USA, 1981‘I have a sneaking suspicion that Andy Warhol never existed. That he was merely an apparition, a zombie. With that idea in mind, I went to meet him for our […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Thu 8 Oct 2020 16.45 BST Giovanni Capriotti: The Haweaters, 2020An abandoned ‘hawberry house’ on Manitoulin Island, Lake Huron. When the first European settlers reached the island in the 1600s it was covered by dense forests and battered by harsh winters. According to local history, Indigenous elders advised the visitors to eat […]
01.10 BST First published on Wed 30 Sep 2020 22.16 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Broadway theater billboards in New York. The report found the vast majority of writers and directors remain white. Photograph: Alexander Spatari/Getty Images A new report has found stark disparities in racial representation and pay gaps on the […]
09.14 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Nothing to see here … a Regal cinema in New York in March 2020. Photograph: Victor J Blue/Getty Images Oscar-winning film directors James Cameron, Clint Eastwood and Martin Scorsese joined forces with movie theatre owners on Wednesday in an appeal for financial help, saying they […]
06.00 BST Last modified on Fri 18 Sep 2020 12.48 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Musicians can be prone to false modesty or putting their achievements down to whatever spiritual energy is currently in fashion. There is none of that with Alicia Keys. “If you put me in a room, I will […]
22.03 BST Last modified on Fri 28 Aug 2020 00.40 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A man looks at Claude Monet’s Water Lilies as the Museum of Modern Art reopens to the public on 27 August. Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images Those markings on the floor. Is it art … or is […]
07.35 BST Last modified on Tue 25 Aug 2020 15.58 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Ron English wearing one of the masks he designed. Photograph: Ron English If you see people walking around wearing creepy skeleton face masks, you can blame Ron English. The New York artist recently released a new line […]
16.41 BST Last modified on Mon 24 Aug 2020 17.51 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Jerry Seinfeld in New York, New York, on 1 November 2016. Photograph: Laura Cavanaugh/FilmMagic Jerry Seinfeld had a hit show about nothing but now he has published a viral column about something: how his beloved New York […]
09.17 BST Marina AbramovićMarina Abramović is a Serbian artist, philanthropist, and film-maker who lives and works in New York. Her work explores body art, endurance art and feminist art; the relationship between performer and audience; the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind Photograph: Tishman Speyer Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hank Willis ThomasHank Willis […]
11.29 BST Last modified on Fri 17 Jul 2020 12.02 BST In 1968, Paul Fusco was a staff photographer for Look magazine. He was commissioned to document the events surrounding the funeral of Robert F Kennedy, including the eight-hour journey on the train that carried his coffin. Photograph: Paul Fusco/Magnum Photos Facebook Twitter Pinterest From the Robert […]
03.53 BST Last modified on Thu 2 Jul 2020 04.47 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Australian artist Abdul Abdullah in the studio. Photograph: David Charles Collins, courtesy the artist Australian artist Abdul Abdullah was in New York City showing new works at the famed Armory Show, held this year on Pier 94, […]
13.00 BST Last modified on Fri 26 Jun 2020 18.05 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email 3 / 5 stars 3 out of 5 stars. ‘Evolved into the role of the pop star’ … Arca. Photograph: Hart Leshkina Time, from Arca’s fourth album KiCk i, reduces a booming, bass-heavy 4/4 kick drum to […]
17.00 BST Last modified on Mon 8 Jun 2020 17.09 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Skin-deep … Pete Davidson in The King of Staten Island. Photograph: Mary Cybulski/AP It is not strictly relevant, but this film briefly breaks the unwritten movie rule that cocaine is the drug for bad people. Heroin can […]
16.41 BST Last modified on Sat 16 May 2020 20.11 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email An online art class at The University of California, Berkeley Photograph: The University of California, Berkley On 30 March, Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons posted a selfie on Instagram holding up a painting of two vases […]
Sitting in depression Always carving me irreverent If I pray the wayward lesson But your mouth can do it better Then some god who don’t speak Fucking up my language Make some words, we’re never fading If you stay, say you’ll save me You can take it all away When you leave I’ll feel the […]
Lyrics Young M.A – Hot sauce Straight off the top M.A bring them hoes out Redlyfe bring them poles out.(hot sauce) Pull up to the club with a bottle on me (that Henny) I’m already sipping Got five voicemails, I just left the brib And my b*tch, she already tripping Blu just rolled a blunt, […]