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Vogue
an hour ago
- Entertainment
- Vogue
Gallerist Daniella Luxembourg on René Magritte's Phantom Landscapes
Luxembourg + Co., a tony gallery that's been putting on museum-like shows in New York and London since 2011, has outdone itself in their 57th Street space in Manhattan. The Luxembourg part is a powerful mother-daughter team—Daniella and her daughter Alma—and this time, they're introducing us to the idea of Magritte as a landscape painter. 'René Magritte: The Phantom Landscape' (through July 12) asks us to put aside pipes, bowler hats, green apples, and clouds when we think of the Belgian Surrealist painter, and to consider Magritte as a landscape artist of a different kind—one for which landscape and psychology and fantasy and emotion all play in the same sandbox. (When I tell George Condo about the show, he says: 'Nice angle on Magritte. Nobody ever zooms in on that.') René Magritte with his wife, Georgette Berger, circa 1937. Daniella Luxembourg, one of the most innovative and far-sighted dealers-slash-art advisors working, is also a top-notch collector. When in New York, she lives in Pierre Matisse's house on the Upper East Side (she bought it in 2001), and a couple of weeks ago she sold 15 of her important works installed there—works by the likes of Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Alexander Calder, Claes Oldenburg, and other post-war masters—at Sotheby's in New York. Bare walls, not a problem: She's already brought in paintings by Domenico Gnoli, another Fontana, and two kinetic sculptures from the '50s by Jean Tinguely, all from her vast private collection, to replace them. Born in Lódz, a city in central Poland known for its great number of palaces and villas and its National Film School (Roman Polanski went there), Luxembourg is a tastemaker who challenges convention. After moving to Israel when she was only a few months old, she grew up in Haifa, studied the history of art (with a focus on early medieval Jewish art), and started at Sotheby's in Tel Aviv in 1984, when she was in her early 30s. Then, in 1989, she left the auction house to found the Jewish Museum of Vienna. She looks at art as an intellectual but presents it so everybody can see it in ways we perhaps hadn't thought of before. In 'The Phantom Landscape,' 14 well-curated works, most of them little known, tell a three-part story, divided into three rooms. The first, 'Frames of Reference,' looks at views outdoors through some kind of a frame. The second room, 'The Sky is the Limit,' is all sky. And the third room, 'A Human Landscape,' features work that uses the human body and the world around it, or 'the morphing of human bodies and natural elements into one another.' In the airy, sixth-floor space, Luxembourg walked me through the show a few weeks ago.
CTV News
14 hours ago
- Lifestyle
- CTV News
Photographer's personal work on display at Calgary gallery
Calgary Watch A Medicine Hat man spent more than two decades as a world-featured fashion photographer. Today, he lives a quieter life and finds beauty in the landscape.
Times
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Times
Belgian king: David Hockney inspired me to paint
It was a long way from the late-spring tunnels of Bridlington, but there was something about the luminous greens and long shadows of the landscape behind the king that told of who had a hand in it. King Philippe, the intensely private Belgian head of state, had agreed to be interviewed this week only after his children said he should answer questions from young people about what makes him tick. What emerged from his answers on YouTube was a portrait of an accomplished amateur artist who counted among his chief inspirations David Hockney, the painter often thought to be Britain's greatest living artist. Reclining in a chair in his palace, Philippe, 65, identified the landscape of his garden as a favourite, inspired by Hockney, 87.
Android Authority
2 days ago
- Android Authority
Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (June 18)
C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we'll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use and come without watermarks. File formats are JPG and PNG, and we'll provide images in both landscape and portrait modes, so they'll be optimized for various screens. For the newest walls as well as all the ones from previous weeks, check out this Drive link. Want to submit your own? Head to the bottom of this article. Wallpaper Wednesday: June 18, 2025 Another week, another set of awesome Android wallpapers for you to share! Remember that we are always looking for submissions from our readers. Head to the bottom of this article to find out how you could have one of your images featured in an upcoming Wallpaper Wednesday! With that in mind, we've got six awesome images from our readers that would look great on your phone, tablet, or PC. As usual, we also have three images from the Android Authority team. First, we have a cool photo of a bird hanging out in a tree watching the sunset over Edisto Island. That comes from reader (and frequent contributor) Julius Earle, Jr., who used a Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus for the capture! Next, we have a very wide photo of a building from reader Kaustav Pramanik. After that, we have an astoundingly colorful shot of a Clematis flower from reader (and frequent contributor) Rick L. Thompson. Rick used a Google Pixel 8a for that one! Next, we have a peaceful shot of the sunset over some water from reader (and frequent contributor) Mandar Marathe, who used a Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra for the capture! After that, we have a very interesting and creative shot from reader Nathaniel, who sent over a photo taken under water using a Samsung Galaxy A35! Finally, we have another creative shot, this time of a sculpture in Selby Gardens in Sarasota. That one comes from reader (and frequent contributor) Pasquale Freda, who used a Samsung Galaxy S25 for the capture. Thanks so much for your submissions, all! From the Android Authority team, we have a peaceful-looking rocky stream from Chris Thomas. We also have a different kind of peaceful shot of a beach umbrella from Rita El Khoury. Finally, we have a very old building from Matt Horne. Be sure to download these photos in their high resolutions from this Drive link! How to submit your own Android wallpapers We are very excited to see your own contributions to our Wallpaper Wednesdays project. Before submitting, here are the rules: Your submissions should be your own creation. That means photos you took, digital art you created, etc. Please don't submit other people's work — that's just not cool. Also, please don't send images purely created with AI . They will not be accepted. Images you created and then augmented with AI tools are OK. . They will not be accepted. Images you created and then augmented with AI tools are OK. You must agree to let Android Authority share your Android wallpapers for free with anyone who wants them. We will not accept watermarked images. You will, however, get a credit and a link in the article itself. We can link to your social media account only. Ready to submit? Fill out the form below. You'll need to include the highest-resolution version of the image you can provide, your name, and a brief description of what the image is. If you want us to link to a social media page you own in your credit, please provide that, too, but that's optional.
The Guardian
3 days ago
- The Guardian
Monkey business and rock-solid brothers – readers' best photographs
'Gingko leaves and a roche moutonnée glacial rock formation. This image documents my good fortune to stop and gaze upon wonders both ancient and beautiful.' Photograph: Manfred Hauben 'Moai statues in the quarry that were never transported to the platforms.' Photograph: Daniel Alvarez 'A duck coming in to land in front of the Peacock Tower bird hide at the London Wetland Centre.' Photograph: Chris Watkins 'Hill Street Blues … a little bit of New York on Dock Road, with Everton's new stadium in the background.' Photograph: Graham Pink 'A viola in the snow in the plant box outside our flat.' Photograph: Inge Kersten 'Tango lessons in the rain at the Scoop outdoor amphitheatre.' Photograph: Don Blandford 'I took this photo at sunrise from my hotel terrace with not another soul in sight. It was the perfect way to see the town before any tourists arrived.' Photograph: Jonathan Sankey 'A bundle of Egyptian goslings having a rest in Dagnam Park' Photograph: Ursula Armstrong 'Descending from the old Navarino Castle, I came across the cavernous cave reputed to be the tomb of the mythical king Nestor. The view out looks down on to an almost perfect horseshoe bay called Voidokilia Beach.' Photograph: Jan G Bek 'I was walking through the Design District and noticed the shadow of the balcony of this interesting building.' Photograph: Colin Page 'Two Japanese macaques groom each other after a long soak in a hot spring at Jigokudani Monkey Park.' Photograph: Greg Hill 'The little observer by the seaside.' Photograph: Pingtian Zhou 'View of Mount Etna in Sicily erupting on the horizon, seen from the neighbouring island.' Photograph: Harry Truman 'The Tri Brata (Three Brothers) rock formation off the coast of Kamchatka in eastern Russia.' Photograph: Anastasia Klimchynskaya 'I was taking photographs of comfrey plants, which are very popular with bees. It wasn't until later that I realised I had captured a bee in flight. What a lovely surprise!' Photograph: Jill Setterington
