Aug 10, 2012
A hockey showdown in the waning days of the Museum Olympics
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A hockey showdown in the waning days of the Museum Olympics
In 1952 Chris Marker made his 1st film, "Olympia 52," a 16mm feature documentary about the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games. Today for Free Tuesday, we're celebrating the life and legacy of Marker with a 12pm screening of his influential "La Jetée," which is considered to be one of the most beautiful films of all time. Image: courtesy New Yorker Films/Photofest © New Yorker Films
More Art Monday: GYMNASTICS
Female Nude on Trapeze (Artist's Model?), c. 1880-1910. Artist/maker unknown.
Acrobat, 1932. Alexander Calder, American, 1898 - 1976.
More Art Monday: ROWING
Sketch of Max Schmitt in a Single Scull, c. 1870. Thomas Eakins, American, 1844 - 1916.
The Jolly Flat Boat Men, 1847. Thomas Doney, American (born France), active 1844 - 1849.
The Boat Ride from Sorrento, Unpublished illustration for the short story The Beast in the Jungle, by Henry James, 1919. Charles Demuth, American, 1883 - 1935.
Two Men in a Boat, Plate 18 from Fünfte Folge von Unterschiedlichen Gegenden alter Gebäude, series of 24 prints dedicated to Maria Christina, Archduchess of Austria, c. 1767. Franz Edmund Weirotter, Austrian, 1733 - 1771.
More Art Monday: TRACK & FIELD
Jesse Godley, Motion Study - Jesse Godley, Running Jump to Left, 1885 (negative); printed later. Thomas Eakins, American, 1844 - 1916.
Untitled, 1977. Joel Shapiro, American, born 1941.
More Art Monday: FENCING
The Fencers, 1940. Benton Murdoch Spruance, American, 1904 - 1967.
Roman Warrior, 1590-1625. Artist/maker unknown, Dutch.
More Art Monday: BOXING
Untitled (Boxing Pose), c. 1880-1910. Hall's Portrait Studio, New York.
Untitled (Boxing Pose), c. 1880-1910. Hall's Portrait Studio, New York.
Bob Fitzsimmons, c. 1891-1904. Artist/maker unknown, American. Formerly attributed to Napoleon Sarony, American (born Canada), 1821 - 1896.
Untitled (Man Punching), Plate 344 from Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements, 1887. Eadweard Muybridge, American (born England), 1830 - 1904.
Exploratorium classic: the Anti-gravity Mirror
Image © Exploratorium, www.exploratorium.edu