Exhibition explores how photography, graphic design, and magazines transformed mid-century American visual culture
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Walking into a room of Jackson Pollock’s drip-paintings in 1951, Helen Frankenthaler said the experience was like moving to Lisbon with no Portuguese and feeling compelled to put down roots: “I wanted to live in this land, and I had to live there but I just didn’t know the language.” This wild terrain was Abstract Expressionism and, while it may have seemed a far-flung monoglot culture to the precocious 22-year-old Frankenthaler, her own syntax of forms would soon come to express so much of what that language was able to articulate.
Frankenthaler’s immersion did not take long. After completing her art school studies at Bennington College in 1950, she moved back to New York, and by the following spring she was offered her first solo show at Tibor de Nagy Gallery on the strength of her formative abstractions.
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The story of the exhibition Modern Look: Photography and the American Magazine starts in Weimar-era Germany, where the emerging field of graphic design was developing throughout the 1920s at the Bauhaus school. Numerous artists and designers of the German avant-garde were Jewish. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, their opposition to modernist art and persecution of its practitioners drove a generation of photographers and artists to immigrate to the United States. There they found a robust mass media exemplified, in an era before television, by large-circulation magazines, such as
Juddmonte Farms Announces 2021 Mating Plans For European Broodmare Band Sponsored by:
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Juddmonte is pleased to announce the 2021 mating plans for some of its high-profile horses.
In 2020, Frankel became the fastest European stallion ever to reach 40 group winners and finished the year on a high with the track record-breaking Group 1 success of 2-year-old Grenadier Guards.
He will receive another exciting book of 24 Juddmonte mares this season, including multiple G1 winner Ventura (already dam of G3 winner Fount by Frankel), G1 winner Emulous, Bird Flown (dam of G1 Irish 2000 Guineas winner Siskin), Nimble Thimble (dam of Frankel s G1 winning 2-year-old Quadrilateral), G2 winners Soffia and Modern Look, G3 winners Big Break, Dandhu and Visit, Flare Of Firelight (dam of G2 winning 2-year-old Threat), Ruscombe (whose first foal by Frankel, Petricor, won her only start as a 2-year-old in 2020, earning TDN Rising Star status), Sleep Walk (a half-sister to Frankel
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