Jenny Saville – Life Through a Microscope (2018)
Jenny Saville is a hugely successful international artist best known for her monumental depictions of the naked female form. Saville draws upon a wide range of sources in her work, including medical and forensic textbooks, children’s drawings, graffiti and online images, as well as celebrated paintings and drawings of the past. In more recent years, […]
Photobooks 2018: A Conversation + with Gabriela Cendoya-Bergareche
“The “focus” is very eclectic as are my tastes. They are always changing and have been enlarging these past years. The collection has been very contemporary-based from the start and that is still true”. -GCB
Jan Mammey: Pieces of a Hole
“It is not just the stitched building that become hidden, but also the remnants of architecture that in turn become strange shrines populating a city-disused and unserviceable pieces of utilitarian function that have not been ordered into exile…”
An Interview with Hedi Slimane
Tim Blanks interviews designer Hedi Slimane during his legendary tenure as Dior Homme’s Creative Director.
Keith Haring’s New Year’s Eve Party (1983)
Find out what Keith Haring’s friends were like and hear his favorite music by watching this video Nelson Sullivan made at Keith’s New Year’s Eve Party welcoming 1984.
Berangère Fromont: Cloud Connected
“…In a landscape where nothing was recognizable, except the clouds, and in the middle, in a field of forces crossing tensions and destructive explosions, the tiny and fragile human body”-from Illuminations: Essays and Reflections.
June Calypso Discussing Films that She Loves
Award-winning artist and photographer Juno Calypso unveils the films she loves and how they have influenced her. In between creating new art, Juno shows us round her East London studio and discusses the development of her work, what inspires her and her relationship with her audience. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/subscribetotheBFI
Lolita by Stanley Kubrick (1962)
Lolita is a 1962 comedy-drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1955 novel of the same title by Vladimir Nabokov, who also wrote the screenplay. It follows a middle-aged literature lecturer who becomes sexually obsessed with a young adolescent girl. The film stars James Mason as Humbert Humbert, Sue Lyon as Dolores Haze (Lolita), and Shelley Winters as Charlotte Haze, with Peter Sellers as Clare Quilty. […]