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Hall of Famer Randy Johnson’s Photography Debuts in New Spring Training Exhibition

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Hall of Famer Randy Johnson’s Photography Debuts in New Spring Training Exhibition
Randy Johnson, Gentle Giant, 2023. Digital Print. Courtesy Scottsdale Arts

As thousands gather in Arizona for Spring Training, baseball fans and art lovers alike will also have the opportunity to view the amazing photography works of one of baseball’s greatest players.

Beginning February 23, the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will showcase photographs taken by former professional baseball pitcher and longtime photographer Randy Johnson that will be on display throughout the Spring Training season. The exhibition, “Storytelling with Photographs,” will run through April 28 and showcase many of Johnson’s works that capture the scenes and wildlife of African Safaris and other environments that the athlete has encountered throughout his travels.  

Known in the sports world as one of the greatest pitchers in baseball history, Johnson earned many accomplishments throughout his 22 seasons in Major League Baseball, including winning the World Series in 2001 with the Arizona Diamondbacks and later becoming a Hall of Fame pitcher. 

While the all-star athlete led a career in baseball for two decades, sports wasn’t his only passion. Johnson is a longtime photographer and studied photojournalism from 1983 to 1985 at the University of Southern California where he had a full athletic baseball scholarship. Upon retiring from his baseball career in 2010, Johnson re-dedicated his time to photography and traveled the world, capturing everything from motorsports and major musical artists to majestic wild animals, such as the one displayed in his “Gentle Giant, Amboseli National Park, Kenya,” photograph that can be seen in the Scottsdale exhibit.  

“Photography has taken me on an amazing journey, but it’s only just beginning,” Johnson said in a statement. “I look forward to visiting places I’ve never been, shooting things I’ve never seen and getting better each and every day.” 

Johnson’s photography encapsulates the same intensity and dedication to his craft that can be seen throughout his baseball career. His works have been featured in multiple publications, including Rolling Stone, Spin and Metal Hammer, as well as in concert tour programs, posters, books and websites. 

The “Storytelling with Photographs” exhibition featuring Johnson’s works will be located in the Center Space gallery inside the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts starting February 23 through April 28, 2024. Guests can join Johnson himself for a free opening reception event at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, February 23 from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.

Click here to RSVP for this event and learn more about the exhibition.

photographer marc goodwin takes us inside japan’s vibrant architecture studios

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photographer marc goodwin takes us inside japan’s vibrant architecture studios

architecture studios captured by marc goodwin in japan

Expanding his documentation of workspaces in different corners of the world, Archmospheres photographer Marc Goodwin takes us today on a tour of architecture studios across Japan. This latest series is rooted in a personal project by architect, writer, and model builder Samuel Michaëlsson, who approached Marc to shoot several Japanese practices following the autumn of 2019, just before Covid 19. During that period, Michaëlsson traveled to Japan to interview the participants featured here. The collection of videos combines clips from Samuel’s interviews with Marc’s new work. ‘I’ve been working on a project for a number of years now, documenting (mostly) young Japanese architects and looking at how the architectural landscape there has changed drastically from one generation to another. I have conducted around 20 interviews over a period of three years,’ he tells designboom. From Kengo Kuma and Associates to Akihisa Hirata, Terunobu Fujimori, and Noiz, explore below the daily atmosphere of 16 different studios across Japan. 

photographer marc goodwin takes us inside japan's vibrant architecture studios
all images © Marc Goodwin | @archmospheres

Atelier Fujimori

Marc Goodwin (see more here) begins his photographic tour in Japan, jointly with Samuel Michaëlsson, in Minami Aoyama, Tokyo. There, architect and historian Terunobu Fujimori found shelter for his current atelier in 2017, transforming the spaces of a converted residential building from the 1990s. Operating solo within the 815 square-meter structure, Fujimori is seen below, deep in focus with a pencil in hand, sketching out his latest ideas. 

photographer marc goodwin takes us inside japan's vibrant architecture studios
Atelier Fujimori

Akihisa Hirata Architecture Office

The next stop is the Akihisa Hirata Architecture Office in the Nishi-azabu district of Minato-ku, Tokyo. The practice, founded in 2005, unfolds as a 323 square-meter space within a building erected in 1985. The structure itself holds a rich history, having served as both an office and residence prior. Today, Hirata is joined by a team of 21 dedicated creatives. 

photographer marc goodwin takes us inside japan's vibrant architecture studios
Akihisa Hirata architecture office

Atelier Tenjinyama

Established at the intersection of architecture and art, Atelier Tenjinyama by Ikimono Architects is a five-people practice situated in Takasaki City, Japan’s Gunma Prefecture, occupying 62 square-meter within a relatively new building (erected in 2011).

photographer marc goodwin takes us inside japan's vibrant architecture studios
Atelier Tenjinyama

Kengo Kuma & Associates

In Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Marc Goodwin captures the atmosphere of Kengo Kuma and Associates (KKAA), nestled inside the BY-CUBE building erected in 2003. With iconic projects spanning 40 countries, the globally praised architecture studio taps into the relationships between nature, technology, and human beings. Over 300 individuals contribute to KKAA’s vision, tackling a wide array of architectural forms, including urban planning. 

photographer marc goodwin takes us inside japan's vibrant architecture studios
Kengo Kuma & Associates

Tsubame Architects

Tokyo-based Tsubame Architects describes its specialization as ‘social tectonics’. Founded in 2013 by Takuto Aando, Motoo Chiba, and Himari Saikawa, the firm features two divisions: the studio, where they perform the architectural design work, and the lab, which focuses on research to refine the framework in the design phase and devising ways to activate them in the post-construction phase. The studio’s work mainly focuses on interior design, including residential projects and workspaces.

photographer marc goodwin takes us inside japan's vibrant architecture studios
Tsubame Architects

Tomito architecture

In the city of Yokohama, tomito architecture transforms a former house-office into a snug architectural workspace. Eight people collaborate within the 65-square-meter office, tackling projects ranging from stores and beauty salons to welfare facilities, residences, and gardens.

Mind-bending photography: the Deutsche Börse prize

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Mind-bending photography: the Deutsche Börse prize
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Mud, Brick, Building, from the series Fields of Sight, 2018

The project began in 2013 in the Adivasi village of Ganjad, Dahanu. Vangad, who grew up in this landscape, served as Gill’s knowledgeable guide. While Gill’s photographs captured the ever-changing qualities of the land, they fell short of revealing the hidden but essential elements beyond the visible. Vangad bridged this gap by embellishing Gill’s images with intricate drawings. His vivid narratives depict the multifaceted realities of Warli life in the region, from floods and droughts to family and village life

Photograph: Raj Salhotra/Gauri Gill/Rajesh Vangad

Lensbaby Unveils the Sweet 22 Pancake Lens, Redefining Creative Photography and Videography

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Lensbaby Unveils the Sweet 22 Pancake Lens, Redefining Creative Photography and Videography
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Lensbaby, a leading innovator in creative effects photographic lenses and accessories, is thrilled to announce the release of its latest wide-angle lens

PORTLAND, OR, USA, February 22, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ — Lensbaby, a leading innovator in creative effects photographic lenses and accessories, is thrilled to announce the release of its latest gem of a wide angle prime lens, the Lensbaby Sweet 22. Available to purchase starting February 22nd, 2024, the Sweet 22 pancake lens is set to revolutionize selective focus photography and videography.

The Lensbaby Sweet 22 boasts an extraordinarily sharp and small sweet plus the most blur produced outside the sweet spot by any Lensbaby lens, all in a tiny form factor. This creative effects lens for mirrorless systems is meticulously crafted with a compact, robust metal body, making it a must-have for photographers and videographers seeking to create an extreme sweet spot effect optically, in real time.

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S.C. photographer converts home into Civil Rights Museum

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S.C. photographer converts home into Civil Rights Museum

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Orangeburg, SC (WOLO) —  While South Carolina played a major role in the Civil Rights Movement. One Orangeburg man found that there was no museum specifically dedicated to Civil Rights.

That was before 2019 when Cecil Williams converted his old home into a home for hundreds of artifacts and photographs.
ABC Columbia’s Alex Tejada toured his museum Wednesday and has more.

Online art fairs prove their renewed value for small galleries

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Online art fairs prove their renewed value for small galleries

Online art fairs may have been consigned to memory since the post-Covid surge back to in-person events but they can still play a significant role — particularly for galleries lower down the food chain.

Data from the winter edition of Artsy’s Foundations fair, which closed on February 14, brought compelling results for some of its 135 small and emerging galleries, which offered work priced between $300 and $6,300. At these levels, “I can imagine it is more difficult to participate in major [in-person] fairs,” says Alex Forbes, Artsy’s vice-president of galleries and fairs.

Artsy provides an online channel for dozens of physical fairs each year, but it reports that this month’s Foundations registered the highest traffic of all, with 136,281 visitors (next in the rankings was the Chicago Expo). The Foundations galleries reported average growth in ecommerce sales of one-third compared with the equivalent two-week period last year (before the fair existed), with a dramatic rise in inquiries for some artists.

These included Savannah Marie Harris, shown by London’s Harlesden High Street; Harris was the winner of the first Artsy Foundations Prize, meaning that her work is on show on a digital billboard in New York’s Times Square until February 25.

Artsy does not charge an additional fee to its galleries to participate in Foundations — they already pay a monthly membership to the marketplace and, depending on their plan, then give Artsy a 3-19 per cent commission on ecommerce sales, Forbes confirms.

Francis Bacon’s 1970 ‘Study of George Dyer’ (est: £5mn-£7mn at Sotheby’s) © Sotheby’s

Christie’s is poised to break the auction record for American painter Brice Marden, who died last year, when his two-part “Event” (2004-07) comes up for sale in New York in May, estimated at $30mn-$50mn. Marden’s existing public record is $30.9mn, made in 2020 for a work from the same series, which has just three diptychs (the third is in Paris’s Centre Pompidou).

“Event”, which has an auction house guarantee, has been in the same private collection since it was finished and has never been seen publicly since, says Sara Friedlander, Christie’s deputy chair. The work gets its first outing in Dubai February 26-March 8, to overlap with the Art Dubai fair.

Consignments are also still coming in for the London sales season, which opens at Sotheby’s on March 6. For this evening sale, the auction house will offer three works from a collection of 20th-century art estimated between £6.8mn and £9.4mn and dominated by Francis Bacon’s “Study of George Dyer” (1970, £5mn-£7mn, guaranteed by Sotheby’s). A further eight works from the same collection will be offered during its day sale on March 7.

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‘Study of an Arm (Study for St Genevieve at Prayer)’, sketched in 1877-78 by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes © Estate of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes | Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery

Galerie Michael Werner is opening new spaces in Los Angeles and Athens in May, adding to its locations in Berlin, New York and London. The Los Angeles gallery will be in a former nail salon off Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and comes with a “beautiful courtyard garden”, says gallery co-owner Gordon VeneKlasen.

Courtney Treut, most recently at Sean Kelly in LA, has been hired as director, while programming for the courtyard will be organised by LA gallerist Hannah Hoffman.

The LA gallery opens with a pairing of 19th-century French artist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes with recent work by German painter Markus Lüpertz. As VeneKlasen says, “It’s an unusual show for LA”, where Puvis de Chavannes in particular is not that well known.

In Athens, the gallery opens with three exhibition rooms in an apartment near the Museum of Cycladic Art. The initial plan is to be “semi-private” with two shows per year and otherwise by appointment.

An abstract painting of brown and bright green shapes on a pale green rectangular field
‘Even a Melon Field’ (2020-23) by Joan Snyder will be up for sale at $210,000 at Frieze LA © Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac

Thaddaeus Ropac now represents Joan Snyder and marks its signing with a recent work for its booth at Frieze Los Angeles, “Even a Melon Field” (2020-23, $210,000).

Ropac will work alongside New York’s Canada gallery in its representation and plans a large-scale exhibition in its London space in November, with a focus on new works. The American artist incorporates materials such as flowers, straw and thread into her generally abstract work and, aged 83, has recently experienced a surge in public prices. Her auction record of $478,800 was set last year, with “The Stripper” (1973), estimated at $80,000-$120,000.

Separately, Mexico City and New York gallery Kurimanzutto will represent the estate of John Giorno (1936-2019) in the Americas, working alongside three other galleries. Kurimanzutto plans a solo exhibition of the artist, also a poet and activist, in its New York gallery from March 7. This will focus on Giorno’s lesser-known Buddhist practice and, the gallery confirms, include a guided meditation. The show is organised by Anthony Huberman, who took over as artistic director of the estate — now known as Giorno Poetry Systems — last year. 

A painting of a woman with an Afro hairstyle wearing matching striped trousers and top, against a floral backdrop
‘One Finger Cyaa Catch Louse’ (2024) by Yvadney Davis © Yvadney Davis

Artists have donated to Together We Thrive, an exhibition of 26 works to raise funds for the Cultural Leaders Programme, a collaboration between Sotheby’s Institute of Art and the charity Culture&.

Their project was formed in 2022 to diversify leadership through education in an art world that can still favour nepotism and good fortune. The institute has waived its tuition fees for three UK-based students per year, for three years, to join its MA programmes in London — which cost up to £28,900 each, including a field study bursary. Alongside this, Culture& provides the much-needed living-wage assistance, set at £25,000 per student.

The exhibition, at Cromwell Place until Sunday, is to support the latter, with work by artists including Peter Liversidge, Boo Saville and Hurvin Anderson, secured by Gallery OCA. Errol Francis, chief executive and artistic director of Culture&, supplies one of his own photos, of himself posing as a security guard in a museum. Works have not been individually priced but are available as raffle prizes, with donations starting at £25. All works can be seen at galleryoca.com and the raffle is open beyond the exhibition, until March 4, via cutureand.org.

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