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Mies van der Rohe – Visions Of Space 1/7 (Less is More)
Mies van der Rohe – Less is More
part 1 of 7
Visions Of Space, BBC Documentary 2003
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First aired BBC4, 2003; ABC, 2004 In ‘Visions of Space’, Robert Hughes tackles the work and lives of three remarkable 20th-century architects: Albert Speer, Mies van der Rohe, and Antonio Gaudi – whose work did so much to shape the modern world.
Hughes looks at how each one used space in different ways to express our response, respectively, to the power of religion (Gaudi), the power of the State (Speer), and the power of the corporation (Mies van der Rohe).
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886 – 1969)
This BBC episode features the German architect, Mies van der Rohe, who moved to America and discovered the face of the modern corporate city.
Following Mies’ footsteps we see how an architect who began his career making kitschy, Hansel and Gretel style houses with pointy roofs, little windows and squat floorplans transformed himself into the master of international modernism – the architect of light and space.
Mies is the father of the contemporary vogue for loft living – what he was building in the 1920s still looks futuristic now. Similarly, his New York masterpiece the Seagrams Building provided the blueprint for the modern office building – without Mies no major city on Earth would look as it does.
But despite his undeniable impact there is something in Mies’ work that Hughes finds shockingly neglectful of real human needs. This master builder could spend days working out how to turn a corner with a skilfully placed beam and totally ignore the legitimate wishes and desires of those who used his buildings.
Nevertheless, Mies definition of real order and how this influences his work was: “The real order is that what St. Augustine said about the the disposition of equal and unequal things – giving to each what deserves, according to their nature.”
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recomended further reading: ‘Mies and the Nazis’ in www.guardian.co.uk
Duration : 0:9:52
The Frick Museum – New York
Henry Clay Frick bequeathed this magnificent collection of art including great masters such as Turner, Holbein and Ingres. The stunning interiors have barely changed since he lived here in the early 20th Century.
Duration : 0:1:32
RICHTER FINE ARTS presenting MEL RAMOS & 11 POP ARTISTS | Vernissage 30.01.2010
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RICHTER FINE ARTS zeigt ab dem 30.01.2010 die Sammlermappe 11 POP Artists | Vol. 1″ und damit Warhol, Ramos, Lichtenstein, Wesselmann und Co.!
Legen Sie den perfekten Grundstein für Ihre Pop Art Sammlung mit signierten Originalgrafiken. Wir zeigen die Editionsnummer 54 von 200 in einem heute seltenen, absolut tadellosen Zustand (mint condition).
Neben der Sammlermappe 11 POP Artists sehen Sie bei RICHTER FINE ARTS ebenfalls in der Zeit vom 30.01.2010 bis 14.03.2010 Originale und signierte
Drucke von MEL RAMOS, der auch selber zu den 11 POP Artists zählt.
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RICHTER FINE ARTS ist die neue Galerie in Bielefeld mit festem Standort in der Hagenbruchstrasse 10.
PARTOUT FINE ARTS ist überall. Eine Galerie, tausend Standorte. Immer in Top-Immobilien, immer neu, immer anders, immer ein Erlebnis, immer PFA! Wir setzen alles daran, unseren Kunden und Partnern nur die Crème de la Crème der Kunstszene in einem aufregenden Mix mit vielversprechenden Nachwuchstalenten zu präsentieren.
Duration : 0:2:30
Karaoke von GallerieBanksy Show • Bristol City Museum • 2009
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Banksy Show held at the Bristol City Museum & Gallery.
13th June – 31st August 2009
Banksy Versus Bristol City Museum
Duration : 0:5:55
Art Collectors of Spar Street
http://www.sparstreet.com The worlds of art and money have always been intertwined; each basking in the other’s reflected luster. Today’s billionaires are no different from the grand dukes and popes of the Renaissance or the merchants of 17th century Amsterdam. They buy art to appreciate it, to learn from it and to profit from it.
By profit, of course, we can mean both financially–these are, after all, people who know a thing or two about money–as well as culturally and socially. The end result of many a great collection is often the creation of a museum, or wing of a museum at any rate, which can benefit society for generations. (In fact, the nucleus of most of the world’s great museums from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan began as a private collection.)
But who are these modern Medicis? Today’s collectors come in all shapes, after all, as well as sizes, and while extremely rich not all are billionaires. There are those who buy iconic art, cocooned in privacy, like publisher S.I. Newhouse and hedge fund king Steven A. Cohen, and there are those who buy publicly, and in bulk, hoping to shape the landscape and move markets, as non-billionaire, British ad man Charles Saatchi did, and still does, in the U.K.
There are those whose tastes mold institutions, like cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder, who bought his first drawing, a work by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele, with money from his bar mitzvah and went on to fund and found the Neue Galerie New York to showcase German and Austrian art. Agnes Gund, whose family fell off the Forbes list of the 400 Richest Americans in 2000, served for over ten years as president of the Museum of Modern Art. Barnes & Noble (nyse: BKS – news – people ) founder and chairman Leonard Riggio, although also not a billionaire, is a champion of minimalist art and activist chairman of one of the great enablers of contemporary art, the DIA foundation.
Some billionaires make their own collections available to the interested, such as home building and insurance tycoon Eli Broad’s Broad Art Foundation in Santa Monica, Calif., and, when it is completed in 2006, French retail giant Pinault-Printemps-Redoute’s Francois Pinault’s contemporary art foundation outside Paris.
In compiling a list of the billionaire art collectors, it was important to shift the focus onto those men and women who are true aficionados, not mere dabblers or enthusiastic amateurs. For that reason, Microsoft’s (nasdaq: MSFT – news – people ) Bill Gates, for example, was left off. To be sure, the world’s richest man can buy pretty much anything he likes, and has certainly spent a great deal of money doing so, most notably his 1994 purchase of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Codex Leicester” for more than $30 million. While Gates continues to collect, his impact on the art market remains under the radar.
Also excluded is probably the world’s single biggest art acquirer of recent years: Sheikh Saud al-Thani, who has spent something like $2 billion buying art for the five museums planned by his cousin, the Emir of Kuwait (He spent $1 million on one photograph, Gustave Le Gray’s “Grande Vague a Sete”). But he would have been excluded anyway. The Emir canned him several days ago.
We have determined those billionaires for our list by playing by the rules of the international art market. Thus the individuals on whom we focus are those who collect with consistency, boundless appetites and the necessary billions to satisfy them. Fact: We have been living through an astounding boom–one that far surpasses its predecessor of the later 1980s. As with the 80s, much of the market is being made by the New Money. Indeed, many figures from that period remain active, like LBO master Henry Kravis and Gap (nyse: GPS – news – people ) chairman Donald Fisher.
Non-billionaires of that ilk include Donald Marron, former chief executive of Paine Webber; Frank Cohen, who sold his chain of do-it-yourself stores in the North of England; Wafic Said, a Damascus-born multi-millionaire and Saudi citizen, who lives rather well in the U.K., and who has collected Van Gogh, Matisse and Picasso; and Dakis Jouannou, a Greek industrialist who is founder of the Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art in Athens.
These are known figures, at least on the shadowy, high plateaux of the dealing world. What has that world currently agog–and following the bouncing ball of the prices–is the Newest of the New Money on the scene, namely the coming of the Hedge Funders. SAC Capital’s Steven A. Cohen, of whom more below, has become, willy-nilly, the most high profile of these new collectors but there are plenty of up-and-comers, like Cohen’s protégé David Ganek, who now runs hedge fund Level Global. So just consider the slide show a quick look at the upper echelon of collecting today. Tomorrow, of course, may be another story. for more info. go to http://www.SparStreet.com
Duration : 0:2:11
To Die – Times Neue Roman
Originally mixed live for Times Neue Roman presentation at the Vancouver Art Gallery’s FUSE (Krazy Edition) June 27th 2008.
Song: To Die
Artist: Times Neue Roman
Web: www.timesneueroman.com
Visuals mixed by Candelario Andrade.
Buy: Search Times Neue Roman on iTunes
To Die
Living to the rhythm and Im never gonna die
Living to the rhythm and Im never gonna die
Living to the rhythm and Im never gonna die
Living to the rhythm and Im never gonna die
talking fast is automatic
I dont try its automatic
I just go on autopilot
why are women so dramatic
forty to the dome, plus Im blown
and now they got me spitting on the microphone
vision all blurry, but they dont know
I straight walk straight like im in control
everyone wanna spit it, like I spit it, I spit it
wicked, they wanna spit it wicked, like I spit it. they cant
I love rapping, its so easy,
In Toronto, but I hail from BC
Vancouver is my town
fresher than the city that im putting it down
bounce, rock, rollerskate
Im bouncing with a hottie thats overweight
I dont really care. I will take that.
I might hit that. I wont date that.
but I will go do one thing
take her to the crib and go into something
25 / 8. 366
rocking on the mic is my instrument,
trying to live a life like richie rich
with my own mcdonalds in my crib
go cart tracks, and rollercoasters
die real young of an over dosage.
oh my god. oh my god.
im still kicking in my coffin
I knock it and unlock it, Im kicking the lid up off of it
and Im walking like a zombie like I already did
they like my rap, cuz its fun
if you dont like it, you are boring
and that means I dont wanna talk to you
and no I dont have a job for you
he who not fly, need not apply.
Im living to the rhythm and im never gonna die.
Maybe I should go all the way to commercial,
try anything man, whatever works dude
who said patience is a virtue
I be rich, by end of verse 2
maybe verse 3, you wan serve me?
never gonna happen, man im better with the rappin
and everything that you ever did inevitably wack man
go cry about it
im so fly, I just floated
I dont try – autopilot
you on the grind? I dont doubt it
something goes here. I dont know yet
look at how I kick it, im a legend in my own right
living to the rhythm and Im telling you I wont die
tryna live a life like entourage,
put a couple cars, in moms garage
club to club, on some star shit
rub and tugs. I love massages
switch my style up, every year
diss my friends and their sisters
I dont care. im rebellious
shift my lip up, much like Elvis
shake one leg and touch my pelvis
bitches, shake your hips like elvis
elvis was a hero to most
I said elvis was a hero to most
but he never meant to me Im oh gee.
golly wolly, do I got it popping? yeahhh
we got it poppin like a shotty pop-poppin
non stopping, I got it lock Im on top of the pop Im rocking it
sorry buddy, you not so lucky
cuz you hot at what you do but not hot as as what I do
rap is easy. oh my god
you.dudes.must.just.try.to.hard
who cares? im just high
living to the rhythm and im never gonna die
talking fast is automatic
I dont try its automatic
I just go on autopilot
why are women so dramatic
I dont get it draw a picture
maybe you could etchasketch it
im so heavy, check the metric
I cop shirts with hats to metch it
im so rude, extra wretched
who are you? is the question
im that dude thanks for askin
ive been doing this since the message
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Society of Illustrators 2008 Opening – 2/3
50th Anniversary of the Society of Illustrators Annual Opening. Part 2/3
Duration : 0:2:58
Society of Illustrators 2008 Opening – 3/3
50th Anniversary of the Society of Illustrators Annual Opening. Part 3/3
Duration : 0:1:16
Society of Illustrators 2008 Opening – 1/3
50th Anniversary of the Society of Illustrators Annual Opening. Part 1/3
Duration : 0:3:29