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Daido Moriyama, How to Create a Beautiful Picture 6: Tights in Shimotakaido, 1987/2014

From our exciting new curation:

ARAKI | MORIYAMA: A HISTORY OF SEDUCTION

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On ARTUNER 

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Merry Christmas from ARTUNER! #christmas #nofilter #ghirri

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Like Ghirri’s well known landscapes, this interior makes use of a delicate system of lighting where details seem to dissolve into whiteness. The striped wall, bed, painting and sculpture are all characteristic of the Fioroni Museum in Legnano, Verona where the image was taken.

Legnago, Museo Fioroni, 1989

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The anonymous building featured here was likely used as as a storehouse or filtration system as indicated by its position above water. Throughout il profilo delle nuvole Luigi Ghirri tended to relegate agrarian structures to the far background of the frame but here he gives the water-house emphasis, positioning it in the centre and making it the clear protagonist with classical perspective leading directly to it. The reflection of the lake blurs the lonesome water-house and gives the photo a painterly expressivity.

 Stellata, Bonifica Parmigiana Moglia, 1989

LUIGI GHIRRI

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Abu Dhabi Art 2013: Five Years into the Future

See the Best of the UAE Art Fair at theculturetrip.com»

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Beach, Basel, Aqua, and more. #MiamiArtWeek kicks off in 2 days! Here’s our guide of what not to miss: http://bit.ly/1cUHQ7l

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Will online galleries replace museums and actual exhibitions?

WORDS BY:YOSRA EMAMIZADEH MCARDLE

As museums and galleries further their mission of being accessible to the general public by creating high quality online collections, I ask myself: Will online galleries replace museums and actual exhibitions? Will visitors stop attending museums when art is so easily accessible? What will happen to the experience, the allure? I came to realize that these questions were not solely mine but were also posed by other museum enthusiasts and experts.

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Click and collect: buying art online

Should you really buy art online? Louisa Buck looks at ARTUNER and Counter Editions, two established contemporary art websites providing an informed and convenient way to collect

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This photograph was taken in Magreta, a small agricultural town in the Formigine area of Modena. The work epitomizes Ghirri’s fascination with orthogonal symmetries and ennobling natural features that are often disregarded.

Magreta di Formigine, 1988

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SURVEYOR: LUIGI GHIRRI IN THE HISTORY OF LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY

WORDS BY:EMILY MANGIONE

Like any art movement or genre, there are an infinite number of varying histories that could be told about landscape photography. In considering Luigi Ghirri’s relationship to this genre, however, it may be most interesting to contemplate its history as a generative tension and movement between the two poles of landscape conceived as a site for subjective expression and an objective documentation of the natural world.

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2D or not 2D is the second project made by photographer Alexander Khokhlov and make-up artist Valeriya Kutsan. The team was increased with Veronica Ershova who had leaded the process of retouching and post-production. This time the authors were inspired by two-dimensional posters. The key-idea of the project was to turn the models faces into the 2D images. Valeriya used different techniques of face painting so you can see a lot of variations - from sketch and graphic arts to water-colour and oil-paintings.

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Luigi Ghirri

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The flat landscape around the area of the Po river in Northern Italy was a vital source of inspiration for Luigi Ghirri during the 1980s. The area offered an alluring plane of vision with sharp angles and a straight perspective that, in this particular work, gives the impression of travelling without moving.

Valli Grandi Veronesi, 1989

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A flyaway success: Victorian dress made from 1,000 beetle wings restored at a cost of £50,000

A Victorian dress made from 1,000 beetle wings that was worn by one of the most famous actresses of the era has been restored at a cost of £50,000.

The emerald and sea green gown - worn by Ellen Terry when she played Lady Macbeth at London’s Lyceum Theatre in 1888 - will now go on display in Smallhythe Place, Kent.

It is covered with the iridescent wings of the jewel beetle which the insects naturally shed as part of their life cycle.

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