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Today we're thinking of Alice Neel, born #OTD in 1900.⁠ ⁠ Featured here, a detail of "Ginny and Elizabeth" (1975) from 'Mother! Origin of Life,' published by @louisianamuseum⁠ ⁠ #aliceneel #bornotd https://www.instagram.com/p/CZRr1SpL6M4/?utm_medium=tumblr

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"Art is the expression of innermost feelings, a spiritual need." So said Alphonse Mucha, born OTD 1860.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Featured images and details are from the recent monograph from @skiraeditore Spanning the entirety of Mucha’s prolific career, this handsome, affordable and concise overview examines the beloved artist’s oeuvre—from posters, jewelry, interior decoration, theater and product design to painting, book illustration, sculpture and photography—across six themed sections that highlight the artist’s personality: “A Bohemian in Paris”; “A Picture-Maker for People”; “A Cosmopolitan”; “The Mystic”; “The Patriot”; and “The Artist-Philosopher.”⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Mucha rose to fame in fin-de-siècle Paris with his elegant theater posters for Sarah Bernhardt, the most famous French actress of the time, and his decorative panels featuring gracefully posed women. For these posters, Mucha created a distinctive style characterized by harmonious compositions, sinuous forms and a muted palette, which became synonymous with the newly emerging decorative style of the time—Art Nouveau. By the time of the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900, Mucha had become a leading figure in this decorative-art movement, and he defined the look of the era. The catalog explores the development of Mucha’s career and overall achievements as a multifaceted and visionary artist.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ #alphonsemucha #mucha #artnouveau #bornotd #otd https://www.instagram.com/p/CRt19rRsnW-/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Today, we're thinking of Wallace Berman, who was born OTD in Staten Island, 1926, and died OTD, in Topanga, CA, 1976.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Images here are from 'Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle,' published by D.A.P. & @theicala and edited with text by Michael Duncan & Kristine McKenna with text by Stephen Fredman.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Pictured here:⁠⁠ 1. "Self-portrait, Larkspur," 1961.⁠⁠ 2. Wallace Berman, "Untitled," 1961–62, Verifax collage.⁠⁠ 3. Wallace Berman’s 'Semina,' a journal of poems and artworks published in nine issues from 1955 to 1964, featuring work by John Altoon, Toni Basil, Charles Britten, Cameron, Bruce and Jean Conner, Jay DeFeo, Diane DiPrima, Robert Duncan, Llyn Foulkes, Ralph Gibson, Allen Ginsberg, Walter Hopps, Dennis Hopper, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Taylor Mead, Henry Miller, Jack Smith and many others.⁠⁠ 4. 'Semina 1,' 1955, Los Angeles, 150 copies. Cover is a photo of Cameron by Berman. Drawing is "Untiitled (peyote vision)" by Cameron.⁠⁠ 5. 'Semina 4,' 1959, San Francisco. Cover: "Wife" by Wallace Berman (photo of Shirley Berman). Poem is Stuart Perkoff's “Boplicity."⁠⁠ 6. Wallace Berman, "Untitled," 1971–72, Verifax collage.⁠⁠ 7. Berman family with "Panel" assemblage, 707 Scott⁠⁠ Street, San Francisco, 1959. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read more via linkinbio!⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ #wallaceberman @imtoshberman #semina @sfgpersonal @michaelnduncan #bornotd⁠⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CLcRNDDpHEE/?igshid=1vk3c6hjnvss1

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VIRTUAL LAUNCH EVENT!! Celebrate Oscar Wilde's birthday, today, Friday, Oct 16 at 6PM EST with the virtual launch of 'Oscar Wilde's Italian Dream' @192books⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Author Renate Miracco & noted novelist Edmund White will discuss the book, live-streamed on PCG Studio (connect here via linkinbio). There is no login or rsvp required. A recording will be posted shortly afterwards. During the broadcast, please email your questions to evan@192books.com!⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ In 'Oscar Wilde’s Italian Dream 1875–1900,' leading Wilde scholar Renato Miracco combines written research with previously unseen visual material ranging from Wilde’s earliest heady trips to Italy as an Oxford student to recently released court documents from his trial and his final days in France and Italy in 1900, after his incarceration in Reading Gaol, and his voluntary exile from Britain. Italy, and the larger world beyond London, was essential to the sensitivity and awareness of Wilde’s identity, his contributions to prison reform and his challenges to social norms and sexual stereotypes in his last years. It also offered a great deal of sexual liberty compared to the oppressive moral atmosphere of England at that time.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ The previously unseen images Miracco has incorporated in this volume (including photos that Wilde received from the gay German photographer Wilhelm von Gloeden) are mainly from private collections, and together with letters, reminiscences and magazine and newspaper articles (along with derogatory articles about Wilde from the Italian press) they play a key role in placing Wilde’s character, and an entire generation, in a complex context. 'Oscar Wilde’s Italian Dream 1875–1900' is a major addition to the canon of one of the world’s greatest literary figures.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ #oscarwilde #wilhelmvongloeden #oscarwildesitaliandream #bornotd #otd !@damiani_books @paulacoopergallery https://www.instagram.com/p/CGaM2RGJkSw/?igshid=1xvhst5ha27ks

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And now, a few details from our book of the day, 'Frank Bowling’s Americas⁠: New York, 1966–75,' featured on the artist's 89th birthday. ⁠ ⁠ In his catalog essay, @akilitommasino quotes the artist from a 1971 essay, "It's Not Enough to Say 'Black is Beautiful,'"⁠ "The art may be a simple box, but the artist remains a magician."⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ Details are from:⁠ 1. Suncrush, 1976⁠ 2. Who's Afraid of Barney Newman, 1968⁠ 3. Penumbra, 1970⁠ 4. Palimpsest I - Mothers House DarkRedGreen, 1966⁠ ⁠ ⁠Edited with text by Reto Thüring, Akili Tommasino, Debra Lennard. Text by Firelei Báez, Melvin Edwards, Julie Mehretu, Kobena Mercer, Sarah Roberts.⁠ ⁠ @mfapublications @sfmoma #frankbowling @frankbowlingstudio #frankbowlingsamericas #frankbowlingnewyork #bornotd #otd #blackhistory⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CpI2jIMpb55/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Today we're thinking about Jean-Michel Basquiat, born on this day in 1960. ⁠ ⁠ Featured image, an ode to Louis Armstrong titled "King of the Zulus" (1984–85), is reproduced from 'Jean-Michel Basquiat: Xerox,' published by @hatjecantzverlag & @nahmadcontemporary⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #basquiat #jeanmichelbasquiat #otd #bornotd #basquiatxerox https://www.instagram.com/p/CmeYmgZOh4o/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Today we're thinking of Pablo Picasso, born OTD in 1881.⁠ ⁠ Photos here are from 'Picasso: The Photographer's Gaze,' published by @lafabrica_⁠ ⁠ Pictured here:⁠ Robert Doisneau portrait of Picasso in the studio of Le Fournas, Vallauris, September 1952⁠ Studio Chevojon photo of 'The Goat' in progress at the studio of Le Fournas, 1950⁠ Jacques Prévert and Picasso during the filming of Nicole Vedrès’ Pierre Manciet photo: 'La Vie commence demain' at the Madoura pottery, Vallauris, 1949⁠ ⁠ #picasso #bornotd #otd https://www.instagram.com/p/CkJAwiHuuzd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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People, how could we not celebrate Yves Klein, born OTD in 1928?⁠ ⁠ Photos here are from 'Yves Klein: In/Out Studio' from D.A.P. & @verlagkettler⁠ ⁠ This essential, 300-page overview shows how Klein transformed his life into a myth that blurred the boundary between art and biography. It includes around 300 unearthed archival photographs--many of which are published for the first time--of Klein, his works, and their production. Always an innovator, Klein spanned many mediums, boldly exploring musical composition, sculpture, performance, photography, theater, film and theoretical writing, in addition to the blue monochrome painting for which he is so famed. Reproductions of artworks are interspersed with photographs of and quotations by Klein, guiding readers through a personal history of key works such as “Leap into the Void” and the 'Monochrome and Feuer' exhibition. Most importantly, this book offers a new look behind the scenes of his performances, uncovers the genesis of his famous 'Anthropometries' and 'Fire Paintings' and portrays Klein at work in his studio, in private settings and on his travels. There are also numerous contact prints with lesser-known photos and snapshots that are not among the more famous pictures released for publication.⁠ ⁠ Unlike most of his contemporaries, Klein always viewed photography as a lens through which to dramatize his subjects, and chose carefully who could photograph him. The imagery in this monograph blurs the artist’s work and life in a way that both maintains and deconstructs the myth of Yves Klein.⁠ ⁠ Born in Nice, France, Klein (1928–62) created what he considered his first artwork when he signed the sky above Nice in 1947, making his earliest attempt to capture the immaterial. The artist carved out new aesthetic and theoretical territory based on his philosophical and poetic investigations of space and science, and the practice of Judo, which he described as “the discovery of the human body in a spiritual space.”⁠ ⁠ Edited with text by @mattkodd⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #yvesklein @yvesklein_archives #bornotd #otd #yveskleinblue https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc5OqsROPWt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Today, we're thinking about Dan Flavin, born #otd in 1933.⁠ ⁠ Images here are from 'Object Lessons: Case Studies in Minimal Art—The Guggenheim @panzacollection Initiative,' published by @guggenheim⁠ ⁠ Based upon the research of the Panza Collection Initiative, an ambitious, 10-year study project, 'Object Lessons' focuses on four works by key figures of 1960s Minimalism and Conceptual art: Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Robert Morris and Lawrence Weiner. Authors Francesca Esmay, Ted Mann and @jeffreyweiss000 present each work from several vantages: an exhaustive chronological account conveys the surprisingly complicated history of the work’s realization, acquisition, ownership and display. An overview addresses the broad practical and conceptual implications of this information for the historical identity of the work and its consequences for the work’s future. A conservation narrative establishes the role of fabricators and the material and technical standards for the production of the object. Together, the authors explore how a previously unaddressed history of production, ownership and display has deeply influenced the life and legacy of the radical objects of Minimal art.⁠ ⁠ A separate section, with contributions by Martha Buskirk and Virginia Rutledge, examines the topic of decommission, a new category of collection classification for works that are contested or compromised and are therefore no longer viable for display. Throughout, the book is copiously illustrated with photographs of the works, the exhibitions in which they appeared, and related drawings and proposals. Rounding out this volume are extensive excerpts of new interviews with artists and fabricators, key historical documents and previously unpublished correspondence.⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #danflavin #bornotd #flavin #objectlessons #guggenheim #minimalism #panzacollection⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbz5-XZO5qD/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Today we're thinking about Eva Hesse, born OTD in 1936. ⁠ ⁠ Pictured here, works and details from Eva Hesse: Oberlin Drawings: Drawings in the Collection of the @allenartmuseum @oberlincollege — the remarkable 428-page collection from @hauserwirth⁠ ⁠ (Note, there will be a solo exhibition focusing on Hesse's earliest drawings, opening 22 February at @AllenArtMuseum )⁠ ⁠ #evahesse #otd #bornotd #evahessedrawings⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CYmwrMhDMmn/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Today we're thinking about Auguste Rodin, born OTD, 1840.⁠ ⁠ Featured work is from 'Rodin / Arp,' which juxtaposes works by Rodin and Dadaist & Surrealist Hans “Jean” Arp. Published by @hatjecantzverlag⁠ ⁠ #rodin #bornotd #rodinarp⁠ ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CWL1NErJcIQ/?utm_medium=tumblr

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"Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in the gap between the two.)" So said Robert Rauschenberg, born OTD in 1925.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Featured images are from the definitive @themuseumofmodernart retrospective catalog, published in hardcover in 2016 and in paperback in 2017. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ More via linkinbio.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ #robertrauschenberg #bornotd #rauschenberg @rauschenbergfoundation https://www.instagram.com/p/CVV0GD4JM1K/?utm_medium=tumblr

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A few prints from 'Andy Warhol: Prints, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation' — on the occasion of what would have been Warhol's 93rd birthday⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ "I’m for mechanical art,” said Andy Warhol (1928–87). “When I took up silkscreening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.”⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ @jschnitzerff #andywarhol #bornotd #otd #andywarholprints #warholprints https://www.instagram.com/p/CSPnvv4FJKc/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Thinking of Alexander Calder, born OTD 1898!⁠⁠ Images here are reproduced from 'Alexander Calder: Modern from the Start,' published to accompany the exhibition currently on view @themuseumofmodernart⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ @cmanes writes, "Calder's sculptures … depend on a viewer's perception of their many elements to achieve their full expression: they contain infinite forms, none of them final. His is an aesthetic of adjustment, of a body to an object, an object to a body, and an object to itself and to its surroundings. In time, or as Calder wrote, with 'familiarization,' some of a given work's infinite possible expressions will emerge. The longer we spend with his work, the more we see, as physical interventions and their perceptions occur in their own time, with accumulating impact. In precisely the same manner that the work implies no fixed viewpoint, achieves no final form, the Calder story, even laid out in a chronological series of events, eludes simple telling. Which seems to be how the artist wanted it: The admission of approximation is necessary, for one cannot hope to be absolute in his precision. He cannot see, or even conceive of a thing from all possible points of view, simultaneously. While he perfects the front, the side, or rear may be weak; then while he strengthens the other façade he may be weakening that originally the best. There is no end to this. To finish the work he must approximate."⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Edited with text by Cara Manes. Text by Alexander Calder, Alexander S. C. Rower.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ #alexandercalder #calder @calderfoundation #modernfromthestart⁠ ⁠⁠ #AlexanderRower #bornotd #otd https://www.instagram.com/p/CRoXh8_smnl/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Today we're thinking of Piet Mondrian, born OTD in 1872.⁠ ⁠ Images here are from 'Piet Mondrian: A Life,' the first comprehensive biography of the artist to be published in English. ⁠ ⁠ Published by @ridinghousebooks & @kunstmuseum.nl⁠ ⁠ #mondrian #pietmondrian #bornotd #otd⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CpffpR_O6ca/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Happy 89th birthday Frank Bowling! A true painter's and one of our great heroes. ⁠ ⁠ Images here are from 'Frank Bowling’s Americas⁠: New York, 1966–75,' published by @mfapublications to accompany the exhibition on view @mfaboston now through April 9, 2023.⁠ ⁠ Pictured here: ⁠ 1. Frank Bowling in his London Studio (2017) © Alastair Levy, Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston⁠ 2. Doughlah G.E.P., 1968–1971⁠ 3. Middle Passage, 1970⁠ 4. Night Journey, 1969–1970⁠ ⁠ Traveling to @sfmoma⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #frankbowling @frankbowlingstudio #frankbowlingsamericas #frankbowlingnewyork #bornotd #otd #blackhistory⁠ #frankbowlingdoughlah #frankbowlingnightjourney https://www.instagram.com/p/CpIS1Lyu3Lk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=