Elliott Erwitt 'Cuba'

Three photographs from Elliott Erwitt's show on 'Cuba' from 1964 and then again in 2015 at the Botanical Gardens in Madrid.

Lee Lozano at Reina Sofia

Some favourites... really was so impressed.  

Picasso - Guernica

Here are some images by Picasso I found interesting and unusual at the Guernica exhibit, Reina Sofia, Madrid.

Feininger's initial response to Moholy-Nagy's Painting Photography Film

‘this essay weights down on my heart! … My self confidence is turning against being merely “tolerated” at an institute which considers panel painting as over and done with’.

- Lyonel Feininger

  

Feininger, Sunset (1930)

Feininger, Bauhaus [Dessau] (1929)

Lyonel Feininger

http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/special-collections/the-bauhaus?custom%5Bperson%5D%5B%5D=255&custom%5Bperson%5D%5B%5D=255&custom%5Bperson%5D%5B%5D=255&custom%5Bperson%5D%5B%5D=255&custom%5Bperson%5D%5B%5D=255&custom%5Bperson%5D%5B%5D=20002&custom%5Bworktype%5D%5B%5D=255&group=The+Bauhaus&sort=objectnumber.exact 

Stoned Moon Series, Rauschenberg

The American Dream exhibition at the British Museum.

Two poems for the first time in a while

Water

I check the news
every morning before I shower
in case
they have warned about
contaminated water.
Should the world end,
and they announce it in advance,
I would pray
nonetheless
for clean water, throughout:
back to the basics.
If I dream when I sleep,
it is always, invariably, about
the glacial river at Cathedral Mountain.
I allow my apocalyptic fears to
wash over me,
even though I know better.


Air

To sit on the lodge porch again
overlooking the river
so fresh you could bring your glass to it
and rehydrate your body
in its entirety
with a single sip:
get me out of London.

Carbon monoxide fills me up instead
and I grow aware of molecules
in the air I wish to call my own,
although it clearly
belongs to something much larger.
I imagine the rain tastes of poison,
though I cannot be certain:
I acknowledge my tendency
for amplification
for the production of false atmospherics
emotional in my mind.