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Legendary Stones Photographer Norman Seeff Talks ‘Exile on Main Street’ Ahead of New Austin Exhibition

The newly opened exhibit ‘Fifty Years in Exile’ at Austin’s Modern Rocks Gallery (August 19 - September 30) will showcase more than thirty rare, vintage photographs taken by rock photographer Norman Seeff during his iconic session with The Rolling Stones for their ‘Exile on Main Street’ album. Seeff has shot everyone from Ray Charles and Joni Mitchell, to Tina Turner, Steve Martin, Carly Simon and Frank Zappa - to name only a few.

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Designer Marc Newson Has Taken Over the Gagosian Shop in London

Dating back to the radical style revolutions of the 1960s, there has been no shortage of chatter about the lines being blurred between design and art. Though surely one can at least say that the truest art is made with little or no consideration for its commercial value; whereas no one designs a chair without caring that a lot of people will want to buy it and sit in it.

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For Freedoms Is The Art Collective Pursuing Justice ‘By Any Medium Necessary’

With their viral billboard campaign and a new exhibition at the Parrish Museum, the collective is using art to pursue political change.

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Aspen’s Hexton Gallery Exhibits Christo and Jeanne-Claude Rarities

Though Christo carried on working for more than a decade after the death of his wife and creative partner Jeanne-Claude (she suffered a fatal brain aneurysm in 2009, at 74 years of age), a cloud of melancholy certainly hung over those years. To be sure, the two had been inextricably linked for some four decades before her passing; though it was well-known that they had agreed to always fly on separate planes, so that in the event of a crash, their work would carry on by way of the surviving partner.

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Vincent Namatjira Elizabeth and Vincent (on Country), 2021 Acrylic on linen 48 x 60 in. VN007

Fort Gansevoort’s ‘Iwantja Rock n Roll’ Exhibit Assembles the Work of Indigenous Australian Artists

The recent and excitedly received exhibition ‘Emily: Painter of the Desert’ at Gagosian’s rue de Ponthieu Paris gallery (January 21 - March 26) was certainly strong evidence of the Western art world’s increased interest in the work coming out of Australia’s Aboriginal communities. Emily Kame Kngwarreye (1910 - 1996) had actually achieved genuine recognition in her lifetime, but her experience was very much uncommon.

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