We enjoy a good 1950′s automobile, and Shawn Stussy seems to have a good pulse on his blog about what a good classic car should look like. This 1955 Studebaker Commander is a near perfect gem of timeless style.
From The Citrus Report
Clean: 1955 Studebaker Commander
February 3rd, 2012Tags: 1950s, 1955, car, culture, flash, flash-video, good-1950, headlines, resizer, shawn-stussy, The Citrus Report
Earliest known copy of Mona Lisa found @ Prado Museum
February 3rd, 2012
Do you think that is a little odd? Like, oh, look what we found! The second most important piece of art in the world. It seems as if the earliest known copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was found at Spain’s Prado Museum, apparently created by one of da Vinci’s apprentices as the master created the original. As ArtDaily notes, “The copy has been part of the Prado collection for years and displayed occasionally but no one paid much attention to it because around the woman in the Mona Lisa was a stark black background, not the pretty landscape seen in the original.”
Let’s be honest… this would go for over $1bn at auction, right?
From The Citrus Report
Tags: citrus report, culture, earliest, flash, headlines, important-piece, mona lisa, prado, prado-museum, spain, woman
RIP, Dorothea Tanning
February 3rd, 2012
We lost another legend in the art world, as Surrealist painter and wife to Max Ernst, Dorothea Tanning, passed away at the age of 101. Her paintings, Birthday (1942, Philadelphia Museum of Art) and, Eine kleine Nachtmusik(1943, Tate Modern, London) are some of the most famed by a female artist in the 20th century.
From The Citrus Report
Tags: birthday, citrus report, culture, dorothea tanning, ernst, female-artist, flash, london, RIP, surrealist
An all-black production of Waiting for Godot is a British first
February 2nd, 2012
Starting tomorrow at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, England, Britain first all-black cast of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” will be put on by Patricia Cumper, outgoing artistic director of black-led theatre company Talawa.
The London Guardian notes of the significance: The play’s very open-endedness makes it resonate, Brown (the director) suggests; sometimes it feels universal, sometimes eerily prescient. “We’ve lost our rights?” asks Estragon. “We got rid of them,” replies Vladimir. Says Brown: “You don’t have any backstory, or sense of who they are. And it doesn’t contain the things you expect from a play. But actually, it’s full of action, and there is a kind of narrative.”
From The Citrus Report
Tags: beckett-leeds, britain, british, culture, first-all-black, godot-samuel, headlines, leeds, samuel beckett, things, waiting for godot, west yorkshire playhouse
RIP, Angelo Dundee
February 2nd, 2012
To the legendary boxing trainer who shaped the skills of Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, George Foreman, we say goodbye. One of the last links to a time when boxing was a true sport of champions.
Tags: citrus report, culture, george-foreman, legendary, leonard, News, resizer, RIP, SKILLS, the-skills, true-sport
Roger Ballen shoots Die Antwoord’s “I FINK U FREEKY”
February 1st, 2012
Leading contemporary photographer, Roger Ballen, just shot the video for fellow South Africans, Die Antwoord, and their newest single, “I Fink U Freeky.” Stay tuned for our parents at Upper Playground’s announcement with some news regarding Die Antwoord. But in the meantime, Ballen is a near genius in our book… creepy, interesting, unique.
From The Citrus Report
Tags: book, culture, flash, newest-single, news-regarding, parents, playground, roger, roger-ballen, video-upper
Jonathan Zawada @ Colette, Paris
February 1st, 2012
One of our favorites, Australian artist Jonathan Zawada, has a new show up at Colette in Paris called Kindered Spirits. The show is a “collection of print works from Zawada that explore the value of the image in a disorienting world where visual culture is defined by an assortment of images out of context.” (via slamxhype)
From The Citrus Report
Tags: australian, citrus report, colette, culture, flash, flash-video, headlines, image-slide, images-out, Paris, paris-paris, print-works, the-value, visual-culture
Jaylib Mondays: Madvillain “Figaro”
January 30th, 2012
We wanted to go back to 2004 when Madlib was producing the masterpiece concept hip-hop album with MF Doom and we were just wee lads getting our stony minds blown. And we were writing for the UCSC newspaper calling this a benchmark album in the decade known as the hundreds. Any arguments?
From The Citrus Report
Tags: benchmark-album, citrus report, culture, decade, figaro, flash, flash-video, headlines, jaylib mondays, madvillain, masterpiece, param-name, stony, stony-minds, the-masterpiece
Till Rabus @ Lazarides Rathbone, London
January 30th, 2012
Till Rabus just opened Forms of Everyday at Lazarides Gallery, London, this past weekend, with a grouping of realist paintings with a touch of surreal and philosophical material. The Swiss artist has the work up through February 23, 2012.
From The Citrus Report
Tags: citrus, culture, flash, Gallery, headlines, lazarides, lazarides gallery, london, london-till, rabus, rathbone, swiss, the-work, till rabus
Chanel x Mini Cooper = Timeless
January 28th, 2012
Now that we have a new Mini in the family, we have been learning more about the heritage… happy we have one when we see a classy moment like this. Chanel? Mini? Good one.
From The Citrus Report
