Tastefully Cliché
- G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
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Greatly influenced by Surrealism, Kansuke Yamamoto made innovative photographs, collages, and poems and was a key figure in the Japanese avant-garde.
His work is featured in Japan’s Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto.Stapled Flesh, 1949, Kansuke Yamamoto. From the Collection of Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck. © Toshio Yamamoto
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Installation of Mark di Suvero at Crissy Field is well under way! Dog walkers, runners, cyclists, and egrets all seem interested in observing these massive steel sculptures being moved into place.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Los Angeles County Museum of Art curator Britt Salvesen and artist Catherine Opie on the occasion of LACMA’s presentation of three Robert Mapplethorpe portfolios: The ‘X Portfolio,’ which features sadomasochistic imagery; the ‘Y Portfolio’ of floral still-lifes and the ‘Z Portfolio’ of nude portraits African-American men.
These two Mapplethorpes, both titled Pictures/Self Portrait (1977), aren’t in the X, Y or Z Portfolio and thus aren’t in LACMA’s show. They were included in a 2004 exhibition Opie selected from the holdings of the Mapplethorpe Foundation. On this week’s MAN Podcast, Opie and I discussed these two pictures — and both Opie and I and Salvesen discussed whether Mapplethorpe’s experience with Catholicism helped motivate them.
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