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Times
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
Tennis, trinkets and tailoring: luxury books for summer 2025
Is beauty ephemeral or is it transience itself that we find beautiful, something that is there one moment, gone the next, like youth, blossom or a sunset? It is this notion that these books explore, how an overgrown tennis court can evoke powerful sense memories of games past, how a pioneering photographic technique was able to capture colours and textures in fashion and fabrics which will themselves now have faded or been lost, the permanence of jewellery — solid and precious — but somehow holding within it all the people that have worn it, all the parties it has been to. Beauty and ephemerality are also addressed in a monumental monograph on the American Abstract Impressionist, Helen Frankenthaler, who was painting, experimenting, transforming, until her death at 83, her vivid essence still available to us via her transcendently beautiful canvases. By Cally Blackman, £75, Thames and Hudson The Lumière Brothers launched the autochrome photography process in 1907, offering an accessible means to capture colour images. The historian Cally Blackman uses this as a lens to examine how fashion changed over the 30 years that autochromes were in use. The book offers about 370 rarely seen photographs, such as sumptuous images of Fortuny's yellow Delphos dress, a coral satin boudoir gown, cerise embroidered stockings and ivory-coloured lace. We see how fashion evolved from the blouses and extravagant hats of the corseted Edwardian era, via the exotic fringing of the Roaring Twenties, to the unstructured silhouettes and dropped waistlines that emerged later that decade. One of the benefits of the process was the accuracy of its colour representation and its immutability — the image was captured on a glass plate inside the camera and could not be enhanced. But for all their clarity of tone, autochromes possess a gauzy quality, which has influenced our nostalgic vision of the belle époque, Gilded Age and Twenties, when in fact these decades were 'characterised by rupture, speed, industrialisation, mechanisation, modernisation, conflict and change'.To order a copy go to Free UK standard P&P on orders over £25. Special discount available for Times+ members • How one night in Paris changed the face of fashion for ever By Laura Bailey and Mark Arrigo, £50, Rizzoli Tennis courts are rectangles of paradise that can be found around the world — or in this book. It's a passion project for Laura Bailey and the photographer Mark Arrigo, who travelled Europe seeking out its most benignly located courts: alongside the Tiber in Rome, beneath the mountains of Switzerland, secluded by woodlands in Sweden. There are modest inner-city courts and grand competition courts — all shown empty, which will make players long to get out on them. The second half of the book has archive shots of famous tennis lovers (Mick Jagger, Audrey Hepburn, Brooke Shields), and testimonials from the game's heroes such as Billie Jean King. Christiane Amanpour writes about the Imperial Country Club in pre-revolutionary Tehran. Bella Pollen recalls the court at her family home in the Cotswolds, overlooked by an encroaching weeping willow, where her father would play in cowboy boots and flared jeans. Sam Taylor-Johnson explains the importance of colour-coordinated socks: 'Jump in the air and feel alive,' she exhorts. A tenth of proceeds go to the LTA Tennis order a copy go to Free UK standard P&P on orders over £25. Special discount available for Times+ members • Super-watches loved by the world's best tennis players Edited by Helen Molesworth and Rachel Garrahan, £40, V&A Publishing Maison Cartier has long had an affinity with England, its royals, aristocrats and arrivistes. The story of these interactions form some of the most interesting elements of this book accompanying a show at the V&A. Cartier opened its first London boutique in 1902. A year later the Dowager Duchess of Manchester, a Cuban-American heiress who had married a British aristocrat, commissioned the Manchester Tiara, with 1,000 brilliant-cut diamonds that exemplified the appeal of Cartier jewels to a new social set. The book includes drawings, essays and glittering images of the jewels — the diamond and onyx panthers, the 1940 Flamingo brooch worn by the Duchess of Windsor, the Williamson Diamond brooch with its rare 23.6ct pink diamond, given to Elizabeth II as a wedding gift. By the late Sixties and early Seventies the centre of aesthetic gravity had moved to New York, where Aldo Cipullo created his classic Love bangle with its screw motif and the Juste un Clou nail design. Come for the tiaras, stay for the nail bracelet. To order a copy go to Free UK standard P&P on orders over £25. Special discount available for Times+ members • Kings of bling — why royals and pop stars all bow down before Cartier By John Elderfield, £115, Gagosian/Helen Frankenthaler Foundation This is a vastly expanded update of the MoMA curator and former Princeton lecturer's substantial study of the groundbreaking American abstract expressionist Helen Frankenthaler, first published in 1989. Frankenthaler (1928-2011) created art for six decades, and this learned book spanning nearly 500 pages covers her career with a focus on her artistic progression, 'the processes of her pictorial imagination'. • The women who prove abstract expressionism was more than just a man's game Her grand canvases explode with colour and ambiguous meaning and she pioneered new techniques and movements, such as colour field painting. Frankenthaler and Elderfield were friends, and she spent hours talking to him for the book about how she sought to create 'something that looks as if it was born all at once'. Some of the most fascinating paintings here are those inspired by old masters, with the original shown side by side with Frankenthaler's response. But for all their richness, the many colour plates featured can only hint at the extraordinary experience of standing in front of one of the original order a copy go to Free UK standard P&P on orders over £25. Special discount available for Times+ members
Yahoo
26-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
$14.3 million in fire relief grants roll out to artists thanks to Getty-led museum fund
Seven weeks after fires laid waste to neighborhoods in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena, the L.A. Arts Community Fire Relief Fund has given $14.3 million to more than 1,700 artists and arts workers affected by the disasters. Applicants approved for a grant from the Getty-lef relief fund were to be notified Tuesday afternoon. All applicants who lost a home (with or without insurance) as well as all those who lost an uninsured studio or work space were given the full amount they requested, up to $10,000 each. Eighty-five percent of applicants registered as artists, and 15% identified themselves as arts workers. The program defines arts workers broadly and includes those working for commercial or nonprofit arts organizations in a wide range of jobs, including administration, education, security, food service and groundskeeping, Seventy-eight percent of recipients experienced loss from the Eaton fire centered in Altadena, 22% from the Palisades fire. Read more: Artists' utopia in ashes: How a little-known 'misfit community' called JJU burned down in Altadena The fund is managed and administered by the Center for Cultural Innovation, a nonprofit that since 2001 has helped artists secure financial stability. One of the organization's primary goals is to provide relief quickly. 'Understanding how severely our cultural community has been impacted by the fires, we designed a program that would quickly get funds to those who needed it most,' Angie Kim, president and chief executive of the center, said in the announcement Tuesday. 'We involved everyone possible to conduct outreach, connecting with arts employers, hiring community artists, coordinating with other relief funders, and attending neighborhood gatherings." The Center for Cultural Innovation worked closely with Side Street Projects in Altadena and Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena to help guide applicants through the process. Read more: Altadena couple loses two homes in one night in the Eaton fire Museums, galleries, corporations, philanthropists and individual donors from 28 countries contributed to the fund, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art; the Mellon and Helen Frankenthaler foundations; the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Qatar Museums; the Ford Foundation; the family foundation of Mellody Hobson and George Lucas; Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg and their Hearthland Foundation; the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; the Broad Art Foundation; the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts; Gagosian and Hauser & Wirth galleries; and Frieze. Get notified when the biggest stories in Hollywood, culture and entertainment go live. Sign up for L.A. Times entertainment alerts. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Times
26-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
$14.3 million in fire relief grants roll out to artists thanks to Getty-led museum fund
Seven weeks after fires laid waste to neighborhoods in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena, the L.A. Arts Community Fire Relief Fund has given $14.3 million to more than 1,700 artists and arts workers affected by the disasters. Applicants approved for a grant from the Getty-lef relief fund were to be notified Tuesday afternoon. All applicants who lost a home (with or without insurance) as well as all those who lost an uninsured studio or work space were given the full amount they requested, up to $10,000 each. Eighty-five percent of applicants registered as artists, and 15% identified themselves as arts workers. The program defines arts workers broadly and includes those working for commercial or nonprofit arts organizations in a wide range of jobs, including administration, education, security, food service and groundskeeping, Seventy-eight percent of recipients experienced loss from the Eaton fire centered in Altadena, 22% from the Palisades fire. The fund is managed and administered by the Center for Cultural Innovation, a nonprofit that since 2001 has helped artists secure financial stability. One of the organization's primary goals is to provide relief quickly. 'Understanding how severely our cultural community has been impacted by the fires, we designed a program that would quickly get funds to those who needed it most,' Angie Kim, president and chief executive of the center, said in the announcement Tuesday. 'We involved everyone possible to conduct outreach, connecting with arts employers, hiring community artists, coordinating with other relief funders, and attending neighborhood gatherings.' The Center for Cultural Innovation worked closely with Side Street Projects in Altadena and Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena to help guide applicants through the process. Museums, galleries, corporations, philanthropists and individual donors from 28 countries contributed to the fund, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art; the Mellon and Helen Frankenthaler foundations; the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Qatar Museums; the Ford Foundation; the family foundation of Mellody Hobson and George Lucas; Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg and their Hearthland Foundation; the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; the Broad Art Foundation; the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts; Gagosian and Hauser & Wirth galleries; and Frieze.
