Infinity Mirror Rooms

Japanese contemporary artist 草間 彌生 (Yayoi Kusama) in the Orez Gallery in The Hague, Netherlands, 1965 in Kusama: Infinity (2018), directed by Heather Lenz. Photo: Harrie Verstappen. Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.

The View from the Far Seats

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky, “Dance Curves: On the Dances of Palucca” (1926) From 1921 to 1923, German dancer and choreographer Gret Palucca studied with Mary Wigman, the pioneer of expressionist dance and one of the most important figures in the history of contemporary dance. In 1925, Palucca opened her own dance studio in Dresden and developed close contacts with various Bauhaus instructors, many of whom greatly admired her dance style. Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky’s four “analytical drawings”, which were based on photographs of Palucca by Charlotte Rudolph, illustrate how closely the dancer’s style coincided with the Bauhaus aesthetic. The drawings and photographs were published in the arts journal Das Kunstblatt in 1926. According to Kandinsky, Palucca’s art was characterized by “1. Simplicity of the whole form, and 2. being based on the large form”. Courtesy of GHDI (German History in Documents and Images).

Destino

The Flight of Time

London, England: An employee walks by some exhibits by Alberto Giacometti during a preview of a new exhibition at Tate Modern. Photo: Tim Ireland/EPA.

On n’oublie rien (One forgets nothing)

Alberto Giacometti, L’homme au doigt, 1947. Photo: Alberto Giacometti Estate, ACS/DACS, 2017.