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Wednesday

03Mar2010

Marina Abramović Retrospective at MOMA

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 8:53AM

A performance retrospective of Marina Abramović, with approximately 50 works spanning over four decades of her early interventions and sound pieces, video works, installations, photoraphs, solo performances, and collaborative performances made with Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen) will occupy New York’s MOMA from March 14 - May 31, 2010.

A new, original work performed by Abramović will mark the longest duration of time that she has performed a single solo piece. The exhibition will also feature the first live re-performance of Abramović’s works by other people ever to be undertaken in a museum setting. See MOMA website. Photo and tip via The Imagist.

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Friday

26Feb2010

Brian Reed's 'Through the Heart of It all' Whispers Eternal Secrets

Friday, February 26, 2010 at 4:24PM

Updated on Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 2:31PM by Anne

‘Through the Heart of it All’ by Brian ReedTake a deeply controversial subject in America — nudity and public decency — and incorporate it into a complex art exhibit that strains engaged minds to understand the message, and then present it in an incoherent to read ChairandtheMaiden.com website. With any luck, your message will be lost and distorted, which is a shame when at rock bottom, you just may have something important to say. (I was there. See followup note.)

After shooting the gallery webmaster, let me send you to Brian Reed’s online website, where you can read a much more coherent story about his show ‘Through the Heart of It all’ in New York’s West Village. I’ll be stopping by tomorrow. More to come. I feel a kindred spirit here. Anne

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Friday

19Feb2010

Faded Beauty | Fernando Viente NOVEADES

Friday, February 19, 2010 at 10:02PM

Seeing this photo of Rose Cordero in the March 2010 French Vogue made me crazy until I found these Fernando Vicente’s Anatomy portraits. See The Modern Vanitas in NY Arts Magazine.

Fernanco VicenteThe French can relate to concepts like fading beauty, yet a still beautifully aristocratic humanity.

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Monday

15Feb2010

Frida Kahlo and Her World

Monday, February 15, 2010 at 11:44AM

Frida Kahlo is always popular at Anne of Carversville. Today we posted Karl Lagerfeld’s Vogue Germany fashion editorial featuring Claudia Schiffer. One of my favorite fashion editorials is Iris Brosch photographing Laura Ponte as Frida Kahlo for a 1998 L’Officiel.

Considering ‘why’ Frida is featured as muse for Vogue Germany, I discovered that 2010 is the 100th year of Mexican independence. In Brussels, The Center for Fine Arts has launched a major exposition of Mexican art, including Frida Kahlo Y Su Mundo.

Enjoy this YouTube video about Frida’s feminist fight to define herself as a fully-developed woman within the strict confines of her Catholic, Mexican life and a strict, conservative mother.

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Wednesday

10Feb2010

A Gorgeous Lens | Jacques Dequeker of Emanuela De Paul in Brazil

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 10:50PM

These photos of Emanuela de Paula for Wish Report Brazil Feb. 2010, created by Jacques Dequeker are so not Rio — which is their beauty. I tend to find so much of the ethereral imagery of women to rob us of our strength and inner essence.

Not these photos by Jacques Dequeker for Brazil’s Wish Report.

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Sunday

07Feb2010

Modern Love in Nigeria | Mary Helen Specht

Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 5:26PM

Every once in a while a writer stops us in our tracks. I recognize the poetic is personal and any number of people could head Mary Helen Specht’s NYTimes Modern Love piece, saying ‘I Don’t Get It, Anne’.I do find a deeply personal humanity seeping through its words.

Because Anne of Carversville is an international website with a soft spot for the women of Africa, I became very emotional reading How Could I embrace a Village?

The waves of my own life came crashing over me, leaving me swimming fast to dry land.

Besides being a fine writer, Mary Helen Specht get high marks in how to build a simple good website. Enjoy your visit. Hopefully I can intrview this talented young writer MaryHelenSpecht.com. Anne

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Monday

01Feb2010

Snøhetta Architecture Show in NYC Feb 4-April 13, 2010

Monday, February 1, 2010 at 1:09PM

The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo, designed by Snøhetta.“Snøhetta: architecture-landscapes-interiors,” an exhibition featuring 11 projects by the Oslo firm, which won top honors for innovative, environmentally-friendly architecture in 2009, will open in New York on Feb. 4 – April 3, 2010 at Scandinavia House: the Nordic Center in America.

The exhibition is divided into eight units with a focus on key designs including the Oslo Opera House, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the Opera Hosue in Oslo, the Ras Ak-Khaimah Gateway Project, the King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture and Tubaloon — Kongsberg Jazz Festival Band Shelter. Pictured above is the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet.

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Monday

01Feb2010

Score 1 for the Dolls | Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue

Monday, February 1, 2010 at 8:47AM

It’s Showtime and such dazzling young things they are: ethereal, innocent pale beauties — the nine dolls on Vanity Fair’s March 2010 Hollywood cover. This image fits perfectly with our new vision for women: Dolls vs Dames.

Annie Leibovitz photographs the scrumptious bonbons with commercial credits:From left: Carey Mulligan (dress by J. Mendel, earrings by Lee Angel), Kristen Stewart (dress by Blumarine, shoes by Pedro Garcia, watch by Jaeger-LeCoultre), Abbie Cornish (dress by Dior, shoes by Aldo, earrings by David Yurman, bracelet by Cartier), Mia Wasikowska (dress by Luisa Beccaria, earrings by David Yurman), Amanda Seyfried (dress by Chado Ralph Rucci, earrings by Beladora), Rebecca Hall (dress by Dior, shoes by Vera Wang, earrings by Beladora), Emma Stone (dress by J. Mendel, shoes by Manolo Blahnik, earrings by David Yurman), Evan Rachel Wood (dress by Dior, earrings by Cartier, bracelet by David Yurman), and Anna Kendrick (dress by J. Mendel, shoes by Pedro Garcia, earrings by Beladora, ring by David Yurman). Go behind the scenes.