At an offsite event to mark the opening of the new Gagosian exhibit Man Ray: The Mysteries of Château du Dé, the band SQÜRL played a live score to four of the surrealist’s 1920s films. It was an ...
A Christie’s sale featuring dozens of artworks by Man Ray that the artist’s trust attempted to halt went ahead yesterday, March 2, in Paris, with all 188 lots sold—known in auction parlance as a ...
Man Ray was the ultimate networker. From the time he was twenty-three years old, when he asked Alfred Stieglitz to sit for a painted portrait, he had an uncanny knack for befriending important people.
Man Ray’s “Ava Gardner in Costume for Albert Lewin’s ‘Pandora and ther Flying Dutchman’ ” (1950). Photo courtesy of Gagosian Gallery The artist Man Ray led a productive and celebrated life in Paris, ...
Last week, Christie’s New York announced it would offer a remarkable Man Ray photograph from the estate of New York fashion executives Melvin Jacobs and Rosalind Gersten Jacobs in a live, single-owner ...
Newsprint pages flitting in the wind, a scatter of pins, a cracked mirror, an exposed garter belt on a blurred body, a blinking eye. Kitten heels dancing the Charleston, painted brows and a string of ...
PARIS — Man Ray’s Surrealist experiments with photography not only revolutionized the medium, but also transformed the way that fashion was represented in magazines during the Twenties and Thirties, a ...
In an intimate show of nine paintings, Vito Schnabel brings to life a dialogue between the artists Man Ray and Francis Picabia—arguably under-appreciated modern-era masters. For Schnabel—son of the ...
You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. At the Met, the curators Stephanie D’Alessandro and ...
If, in the early 1920s, you happened to walk into Shakespeare and Company, the legendary bookstore and lending library established in Paris after World War I by the American expatriate Sylvia Beach, ...