Happy Birthday Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper, born on this day in 1936, wasn’t just an Academy Award-nominated actor, director, screenwriter, and notorious bad boy. He was also a visual artist who created acclaimed photographs, paintings, and prints.
Unsurprisingly, Hopper’s photographs have a casually cinematic quality to them, especially when he focused on his famous friends and fellow artists—such as portraits of James Rosenquist, Roy Lichtenstein, and Andy Warhol.
Recently opened, thru June 29:
“Hypnotherapy”
John Brill, Llyn Foulkes, Pablo Helguera,
David Lynch, Jill Spector & Aleister Crowley
Kent Fine Art, 210 Eleventh Ave., NYC (bt W24th & W25th Streets)
a group show that “gives David Lynch fans a chance to revisit the iconic filmmaker’s alarming artwork a year after his solo turn at Jack Tilton. But that’s only one, conspicuous though it is, of its strengths. What really matters is the opportunity to experience a museum-quality exhibition that approaches the pitfalls of latter-day surrealism with as much intelligence and refinement as this one does.“
- Thomas Micchelli, Hyperallergic (read more here)
Cy Twombly - Scenes from an Ideal Marriage (1986) - Acrylic and pencil on paper
(via arpeggia)
An exhibition of new paintings and sculpture by Yoshitomo Nara’s work is now on view at Pace.
Please join us this evening for an opening reception from 6 to 8 PM at 534 West 25th Street!
© Yoshitomo Nara, courtesy Pace Gallery
Happy Birthday Keith!
You are missed.
Haring artwork 1985 ©Keith Haring Foundation
Used with permission
Opens Fri, May 10, 6-8p:
Yoshitomo Nara
Pace Gallery, 534 W25th St., NYC
This exhibition marks Japanese artist Nara’s solo return to New York, featuring new paintings, works on paper and sculpture, including the artist’s large-scale investigations in bronze. - thru June 29
INFLUENCE. PATTI SMITH & ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE
Welcoming the Lazy Sunday…
Yves Klein - Fire Paintings, 1960
Related post: The Making of Fire Paintings
See more of Yves Klein posts here.
