Nicholas Fox Weber's Blog, page 24
June 25, 2013
Agnes Mongan
Intense aliveness was what Agnes Mongan craved; artworks and their study were
vehicles toward it.
PATRON SAINTS FIVE REBELS WHO OPENED AMERICA TO A NEW ART
1928-1943
ArtNEWS November, 1996 Agnes Mongan
June 19, 2013
Le Corbusier with his mother and her dog Nora
Le Corbusier with his mother and her dog Nora in Vevey, ca. 1930
“My mother, I believe, is sustained by an almost alarming stoicism.
It is the triumph of life…deliberate blindness and, luckily, daily exhaustion overwhelm us, which is how human resistance is formed.”
June 18, 2013
Le Corbusier at Le Piquey
Le Corbusier and Yvonne took another summer holiday at
Le Piquey…Le Corbusier was mesmerized by the tide table
and perpetually monitored the sea coming in and receding,
as if to measure the passing of time.
–Le Corbusier: A Life
June 15, 2013
Young Corbu in Paris
From a lecture on Le Corbusier: A Life
MAO Unfinished Modernisations: between
Utopia and Pragmatism, Ljubljana 2012
He and his brother Albert had a lot of fun
hacking around. This is a photograph in
which Corbu took the photograph
and drew himself as the devil.
It’s how he saw himself. He loved drinking.
He became very interested in women…
June 12, 2013
NFW at Fab Dinner
ALBERS X FAB ICFF DINNER (14 photos)
Hosted by Bradford Shane Shellhammer, Jason Goldberg
and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.
All Photos by Emily Kinsolving for Fab.com. Tables styled by
Lucy Swift Weber Youdovin, with the help of CamronPR
and Sravanthi Agrawal. See More — at TriBeCa & www.facebook.com/AlbersFoundation
June 11, 2013
Frank Crowninshield
“The first rule is that there are no rules.” –Frank Crowninshield
June 9, 2013
Old Clinton Furnace
On a visit home during his freshman year,
Walker made his first art acquisition –
a painting by John Kane called Old Clinton
Furnace…
Walker had long valued what others
deemed grim.
John Walker III
John Walker’s fondness for art had been the result of a calamity.
In 1913 when he was thirteen years old and interested only in football and skiing, he had been struck with infantile paralysis…
his mother took him to new York so that he could get the best medical treatment…she sought places accessible by wheelchair, and the easiest was the Metropolitan Museum of Art….at the Met Mrs. Walker saw her son smile with a pleasure she hadn’t seen on
his face since before he had taken sick.
