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Three Photographs Presented In Chronological Order

a jan-feb 1962 photo by tatiana franchetti twombly of cy twombly wrapped around his head and neck like a sufi and wearing a dark caftan, standing in profile along the railing of the deck of their boat, with a furled canvas curtain behind him, and the water of the nile in the blurry background, on the shortest list possible for twombly's most epic fits
a promotional still from david lean's lawrence of arabia, released in december 1962, in which peter o'toole, staring intensely, lips apart, off to the right, wearing a white kaffiyeh and gold 'iqal, while omar sharif on his left stares intensely at him, lips apart, and wearing a black kaffiyeh and gold 'iqal
a still from anthony harvey's 1968 film, a lion in winter, in which katharine hepburn, a scarf wrapped tightly under her chin and attached to the bun coming through the top of her small gold crown, looks intensely, while holding his arm, into the eyes of peter o'tool, who is here in a thick brown monk's habit, full beard, and no head gear.
Author gregPosted on February 26, 2025February 26, 2025Categories art, moviesTags cy twombly

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STOP GENOCIDE
Gonzalez-Torres Forbidden
Colors, May 2021—


manet facsimile object m4 fleurs, 2024
Édouard Manet Facsimile Object (M4) "Fleurs", 2024 about


geraldo viola's 1964 photo of caetano veloso wearing helio oiticia's parangole
Art & Autocracy
The Irving Sandler Essay
Brooklyn Rail, May 2024


the second deposition of richard prince book cover
The Second Deposition of Richard Prince , 2023


Cy Twombly Tag T-shirt
Some Conceptual T-Shirts, 2021–


FOOL Facsimile Object (W1)
Facsimile Objects, 2021–22
Current: FOOL (W1), Tania (N1)
previous / about


robert rauschenberg's should love come first? c. 1951
Looking for Love, 2018
about | panorama | src


Some longer articles on LDS architecture; Yayoi Kusama; Johns, Castelli & MoMA; Sam Gilliam


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Our Guernica Cycle, 2017 –
about/kickstarter | exhibit, 2017


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Social Medium:
artists writing, 2000-2015
Paper Monument, Oct. 2016
ed. by Jennifer Liese
buy, $28
Erased deKooning Drawing posts

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Madoff Provenance Project in
'Tell Me What I Mean' at
To__Bridges__, The Bronx
11 Sept. - Oct. 23 2016
show | beginnings

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Chop Shop
at SPRING/BREAK Art Show
curated by Magda Sawon
1-7 March 2016
installation & works

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eBay Test Listings
Armory – ABMB 2015
about | proposte monocrome, rose

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It Narratives, incl.
Shanzhai Gursky & Destroyed Richter
Franklin Street Works, Stamford
Sept. 5 - Nov. 9, 2014
about | link

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TheRealHennessy Tweets Paintings, 2014 -
about

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Standard Operating Procedure
about | buy now, 284pp, $15.99

CZRPYR2: The Illustrated Appendix
Canal Zone Richard Prince
YES RASTA 2:The Appeals Court
Decision, plus the Court's
Complete Illustrated Appendix (2013)
about | buy now, 142pp, $12.99

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"Exhibition Space" @ apexart, NYC
Mar 20 - May 8, 2013
about, brochure | installation shots


HELP/LESS Curated by Chris Habib
Printed Matter, NYC
Summer 2012
panel &c.


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Destroyed Richter Paintings, 2012-
background | making of
"Richteriana," Postmasters Gallery, NYC

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Canal Zone Richard
Prince YES RASTA:
Selected Court Documents
from Cariou v. Prince (2011)
about | buy now, 376pp, $17.99



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