This is totally in your face Greek male nudity … What does that all that acreage of Greek naked male flesh – what does it actually all mean? ibid.
For most of his [David] history, cover-up was the order of the day. ibid.
Picasso: Les Demoiselles D’Avignon 1907. ibid.
The naked human has taken different forms in cultures across the world. ibid.
I have to warn you, it’s not always a pretty sight … Nudes that try and fathom some of the most difficult but fundamental issues of who we are … to see whether nude matters. Mary Beard’s Shock of the Nude II
Jesus: the human and divine body ... Ludwig Krug: Christ as the Man of Sorrows 1510. ibid.
The tortured form of Jesus has been one of the most common subjects of Western art. ibid.
Sir Stanley Spencer: Double Nude Portrait: The Artists and his Second Wife 1957. ibid.
Egon Schiele: the naked body, how it is represented, and what it means. Schiele painted his own body again and again in an act of repeated self-reflection. ibid.
There’s still plenty of art that most of us for all sorts of reasons don’t get to see … There’s always been a virtual secretum. Mary Beard’s Forbidden Art I: Vile Bodies, BBC 2022
What if anything goes too far? ibid.
December 19 1966 Leeds: This was the last occasion in Britain a painter was successfully prosecuted for obscenity. ibid.
For decades after their discovery, ancient statues were kept away from the public gaze in the secretum, whether in Italy or in Britain. ibid.
However much they prefer not to look at images of dead and oozing bodies, I don’t think many people would see them as unethical. ibid.
Works that show the living body in pain take these issues a whole step further. ibid.
What we really need to be asking is where each of us draws out own boundaries and why. ibid.
We live in hazardous times for art especially for statues. A plinth is a dangerous place to be. Mary Beard’s Forbidden Art II
It’s about history and hysteria. To vision and dissent, and about art’s role in some of the greatest social, political and religion conflicts in our time or of any. ibid.
Art has been weaponised in ideological conflicts before. ibid.
‘A picture of the Moors’ murderer Myra Hindley made with children’s hand-prints has been vandalised. The painting, part of the Royal Academy’s Sensation exhibition had paint and an egg thrown at it.’ ibid. BBC news
Tens of thousands of figurative artworks right across Europe were destroyed or debased by protestants who saw this sort of sacred art as idol worship. ibid.
I love being inside of the 405 freeway in my car. Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405 ***** Mindy, short 40.06, 2017
I was pretty much a basket-case. ibid.
‘To be given a scholarship by him; it’s one of the most amazing gifts anyone has ever given me.’ ibid.
Why did she [mother] ask me to leave instead of him [father]? ibid.
She [mother] had a physical repulsion to me. ibid.
You may have noticed that the art market has done pretty well in recent years. Better than the stocks and share, commodities, and those complicated financial products you trade. The Banker’s Guide to Art, BBC 2017
London: the gold rush city of the art market. ibid.
Rule 1: Art is an asset class: an investment like stocks and share. ibid.
There are hedge funds investing in art and finance companies lending money taking the art you own as collateral. ibid.
Rule 2: Follow the money: buy the art liked by people more important than you. ibid.
Rule 3: Hire an Art Adviser: who’s job is to identify the art and artists that are on the up. ibid.
Rule 4: Don’t trust a dealer … a sales-pitch can be all smoke and mirrors. ibid.
Rule 5: Pay a lot for art: the art that goes up in value is produced by a small group of artists. ibid.
In their own day Turners cost as much as Titians. ibid.
Rule 6: Collect artists who repeat themselves. ibid.
Rule 7: Spread your risk … The art market is unpredictable, volatile. ibid.
Rule 8: Offshore your art. ibid.
Rule 9: Control the market. ibid.
Rule 10: Know when to sell. ibid.
In the 15th century Italy was home to a creative upsurge that redefined Western art ideals. A Fresh Guide to Florence with Fab 5 Freddy, BBC 2019
There were powerful patrons such as the Medicis and rock star artists such as Michelangelo. ibid.
Giotto brought narrative, he brought dynamism, he brought that naturalistic flavour and he was able to tell a story all in one picture. ibid.
A roof terrace, a primary school with a paddling pool, a movie screen made of concrete, a sports hall; inside corridors that stretch one hundred and fifty metres, 337 apartments for 1,600 residents under one roof. The Bauhaus Spirit, Sky Arts 2019
The twentieth century was rich in visions of utopia and better societies. The questions was, How to build a new world. And who could build it. ibid.
It was first and foremost a school: a campus home for Utopians, inventors and dreamers. ibid.
‘This kind of interdisciplinary thinking and working.’ ibid.
The Bauhaus moved far away from its Arts & Crafts room, and with this building it jumped straight into the industrial movement. ibid.
Now it was time for large apartment buildings. ibid.
Modern architecture from Europe lived on in the international style of New World cities. ibid.
‘First they had to improve buildings, then the city had to be viewed globally. The most famous congress was when a group travelled by boat from Marseilles to Athens: Walter Gropius Le Corbusier, Miles van der Rohe. Together, these modernists developed the idea of a charter which was intended to be a guide for urban planners.’ ibid. dude
100 years ago, an art school opened in Germany that would change the world forever. It was called the Bauhaus. A century later, its radical thinking still shapes our lives today. Bauhaus 100, captions, BBC 2019
The Bauhaus was the first truly revolutionary design movement. It’s a movement that only existed for fourteen years and yet it had a kind of worldwide impact. ibid. Michelle Ogundehin
The Bauhaus was the brainchild of Walter Gropius who created the school and became its first director, and is now considered one of the greatest architects and educators of the twentieth century. ibid.
Gropius now produced a manifesto, a kind of mission statement in which he outlined his vision. At the Bauhaus all the disciplines would come together to create what he considered to be the pinnacle of artistic achievement: a building. ibid.
August 1923 marked the opening of the first great Bauhaus exhibition. ibid.
‘Nazis go into the building and throw furniture out the window. There’s talk of burning the building down.’ ibid. art lady
An art dealer called Michel Cohen … if he surfaces, they will find him … He’s basically on the run his entire life … There were so many knowledgeable dealers that were trusting him for tremendous amounts of money … The $50 Million Art Swindle, opening comments, BBC 2019
Michel Cohen disappeared in 2001 having committed one of the largest thefts in art world history. ibid. caption
He opens a gallery at 1018 Madison. ibid.
Whilst Tanya showed contemporary art in the gallery, Michel sold modern masters out of the back room. ibid. caption
In the early 90s, Michel began borrowing money to finance bigger deals. ibid. caption
On January 2001, Michel fled from New York having stolen a total of $55 million. ibid.
A few weeks after Michel landed in Rio in January 2001, his wife and two children joined him. ibid.