Barbara Luisi’s exhibition of ‘Glowing Night, Artificial Lights’ photography goes on display in New York

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Feb 262013
 

Barbara Luisis exhibition of Glowing Night, Artificial Lights photography goes on display in New YorkPho­to­grapher has a good Italian name, though she’s Ger­man and largely lives in .

The ‘Luisi’ sur­name comes from her hus­band, Fabio, who is the Prin­cipal Con­ductor at the , which explains why she now spends a good amount of time in the Big Apple. How­ever, she also has a home in Cam­ogli, a small town on the Lig­urian coast, not far from Por­tofino. These con­trasts in her life and back­ground are reflec­ted in her pho­to­graphy which ranges from intim­ate pic­tures of pearls nest­ling on the sea bed, to the flashy neon lights of Broad­way. It is arti­fi­cial light which attrac­ted her as a sub­ject for her latest show, which opens 28 Feb­ru­ary in New York and is called: “Glow­ing Night, Arti­fi­cial Lights”.

Luisi’s pho­to­graphs are, as she says in the blurb,

… con­cerned exclus­ively with the per­cep­tion of light in the dark­ness, with warmth and the cold. Dark­ness com­bined with move­ment enables undreamt-of asso­ci­ations. The ele­ments melt into one, earth become water, air becomes fire.

Just a super­fi­cial glance at her images proves her point: magic, mys­ter­i­ous, like the night itself.

Barbara Luisis exhibition of Glowing Night, Artificial Lights photography goes on display in New York
New York – 5th Avenue
Barbara Luisis exhibition of Glowing Night, Artificial Lights photography goes on display in New York
Paris – the Seine
Barbara Luisis exhibition of Glowing Night, Artificial Lights photography goes on display in New York
Paris – Notre-Dame
Barbara Luisis exhibition of Glowing Night, Artificial Lights photography goes on display in New York
Rome – Piazza del Popolo

The pho­tos were taken in New York, Oslo, Tokyo, Vienna, Paris and Rome. At 3 a.m.!

The images are undefined, impres­sion­istic, using long expos­ures to allow the dim to become bright:

Light floods through the lens of the object­ive for minutes, leav­ing its trace. That’s all. Each and every observer sees it differently.

Bar­bara Luisi uses infra-red and colour-reversal tech­niques to add to the curi­os­ity of these works, but the force comes from the ori­ginal image cap­tured at the depth of night when most people are tucked up in their beds. Which leads us nicely to the fact that the exhib­i­tion is tied in with the Cas­sina bed launch at their show­room at 151 Wooster Street, . And the designer of these four new beds? None other than Rodolfo Dor­doni, Piero Lis­soni, and Phil­ippe Starck.

The photo exhib­i­tion runs until May 1st.

 

You can find out more and Bar­bara Luisi’s work on her site, and a book con­tain­ing all the pho­tos of this series, “Glühende Nacht – Arti­fi­cial Lights”, is pub­lished by Böeh­lau.

Barbara Luisis exhibition of Glowing Night, Artificial Lights photography goes on display in New York

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Stephen Sondheim to receive the Handel Medallion from Mayor Michael Bloomberg

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Oct 122011
 

is to receive ’s highest hon­our for achieve­ment in the arts. The award is given by the City of for con­tri­bu­tion to the city’s intel­lec­tual and cul­tural life. Pre­vi­ous recip­i­ents include , John Len­non and cho­reo­grapher Merce Cunningham.

The Han­del Medal­lion will be presen­ted by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and actor Alec Bald­win at the Mayor’s Awards for Arts and Cul­ture cere­mony at Alice Tully Hall.

The cere­mony will also hon­our five other fig­ures in the art world for their con­tri­bu­tions, includ­ing Bary­sh­nikov Arts Cen­ter dir­ector and artist Maya Lin.

via BBC News… [con­tinue reading]

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Two quirky ballerinas strike a pose at the Frick Collection

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Oct 072011
 

Picasso Two Ballet Dancers Two quirky ballerinas strike a pose at the Frick Collection is gen­er­ally acknow­ledged to be the greatest drafts­man of the twen­ti­eth cen­tury. The Frick Col­lec­tion, , and the National Gal­lery of Art, Wash­ing­ton, D.C., have co-organized an exhib­i­tion for 2011-12 that will look at the dazzling devel­op­ment of Picasso’s draw­ings, from the pre­co­cious aca­demic exer­cises of his youth in the 1890s to the vir­tu­oso clas­sical works of the early 1920s, runs the blurb.

How­ever, what caught my eye was the won­der­ful sketch of two baller­inas: what calf muscles! what Popeye arms! what Anna Nicole breasts! Now I won­der where these two sylphs worked…

Picasso’s Draw­ings, 1890–1921: Rein­vent­ing Tra­di­tion runs at the Frick Col­lec­tion until Janu­ary 8, 2012… [con­tinue reading]

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Broadway’s open-air tribute to New York to remember 9/11

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Sep 102011
 

The Broad­way com­munity came out in full force Fri­day after­noon in to observe the 10th anniversary of the Septem­ber 11 attacks. Per­formers from the music­als “The ,” “Sis­ter Act,” “,” “Mamma Mia!” and more gathered in Times Square to sing the ode to the city, “, ,” by John Kander and Fred Ebb.

… [con­tinue reading]

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New York’s ‘Fall for Dance’ announce the lineup for 2011

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Aug 242011
 

Fall For Dance 2011 New Yorks Fall for Dance announce the lineup for 2011 will be don­ning his tap-shoes for the latest edi­tion of Fall For Dance at City Cen­ter, which will run from Octo­ber 27 to Novem­ber 6. Twenty com­pan­ies and cho­reo­graph­ers are tak­ing part with all tick­ets at only $10.

For ten exhil­ar­at­ing days each year, feel the rush…the exuberance…the sheer joy that is dance, from New York City, across the coun­try, and around the globe!

Other inter­na­tional com­pan­ies include New York and Sweden-based Pon­tus Lid­berg Dance com­pany; the , Lizt Alf­onso Dance of Cuba, Richard Alston Dance Com­pany from the UK, the Royal Bal­let of Flanders, China’s TAO Dance Theater and the Ver­tigo Dance Com­pany from Israel. Local entries include Lil Buck, the Jof­frey Bal­let, Alvin Ailey Amer­ican Dance Theater, Jes­sica Lang Dance, Dance Group, and Trisha Brown Dance Com­pany.… [con­tinue reading]

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Met Museum will stay open into the night to cope with crowds for McQueen Show

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Jul 272011
 

mqueen met Met Museum will stay open into the night to cope with crowds for McQueen ShowThe has never catered to the late-night crowd, but on August 6 and 7th, for the last two days of its block­buster exhib­i­tion “: Sav­age Beauty,’’ it will keep the show open until mid­night. Hav­ing combed through the museum’s records, offi­cials there said they believe this will be the first time the Met has stayed open so late.

The exhib­i­tion, which chron­icles the work of the Brit­ish fash­ion designer who com­mit­ted sui­cide last year at the age of 40, opened on May 4 and ever since its gal­ler­ies have been mobbed, with people wait­ing in lines some­times as long as two hours.

The museum has already exten­ded the dur­a­tion of the show twice, given access to mem­bers earlier in the day and offered $50 tick­ets to vis­it­ors who want to come on Mondays, when the museum is nor­mally closed.… [con­tinue reading]

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Fabio Luisi’s moving house — but will Jimmy Levine be moving out?

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Apr 252011
 

is mov­ing to New York. He and his wife, , a former viol­in­ist and now a phở­to­grapher, and their 13-year-old son are mov­ing to New York in May, to an apart­ment on West 96th Street.

Luisi has reduced his sched­ule at the Vienna Sym­phony and declined to extend his con­tract as chief con­ductor past the 2012–13 sea­son. “The orches­tra needs someone new, someone fresh,” he said. He has also can­celled per­form­ances at the .

The New York Times asked him if he’d be tak­ing over at the Met:

It’s a very del­ic­ate situ­ation. I ask you really to under­stand my pos­i­tion, which is not easy.”

How many ways could he deflect the idea? Just dis­cuss­ing the mat­ter was inap­pro­pri­ate, he argued.… [con­tinue reading]

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