Robert Frank

Kerouac in Cannes: A Road Not Taken

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Kristen Stewart, Peter Orlovsky, On the Road Film, Sissy Spacek, Joyce Johnson, Jack Kerouac, Walter Salles, Steve Buscemi, Allen Ginsberg, David Cronenberg, Carolyn Cassady, Hettie Jones, John Heard, Nick Nolte, Kirsten Dunst, Naked Lunch, Amy Adams, Joan Vollmer, Robert Frank, Jose Rivera, Anne Waldman, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

I am pleased that the reports from Cannes about the On the Road, Walter Salles' film are mainly favorable, although I have taken note that some say there is no inner world for the characters, that the film has no discernable plot, that it is overlong.

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Mishka Henner Erases The Americans

Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Video, Panos Pictures, Art News, Mishka Henner Robert Frank, Mishka Henner, Digital Erasing, Less Americains, The Americans, Slideexpand, Erasing Robert Frank, Robert Frank, Arts News

Remember when Robert Rasuchenberg "erased de Kooning?" Well, now the UK-based and Belgium-born artist Mishka Henner is upping the ante and erasing Rob...

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Street Photography And Surveillance, From '30s To Today

Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Photography, Bruce Davidson, Video, Street Photography, Beat Streuli, Walker Evans, Harry Callahan, Cosmopolitan, Washington DC, Slidewide, National Gallery of Art, Philip-Lorca Dicorcia, Voyeurism, Robert Frank, Arts News

Remember the game "I Spy," where kids look out the car window and look for specific objects which catch their little eyes? This notion of free play wi...

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Making New Friends In Russia

Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Photography, Bertien Van Manen, Female Photographer, Nan Goldin, Female Artists, Slidepollajax, Robert Frank, Dutch Photography, Soviet Union, Video, Arts News

Bertien van Manen's exhibition "Let's sit down before we go" features 60 photos taken from 1991 to 2009, when the photographer travelled throughout Ru...

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National Institutes Of Health Library Acquires Pioneering Detroit Doc's Docs

The Huffington Post | David Sands | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Wayne State University, Video, Joseph Dunbar, Detroit Receiving Hopsital, Charles F. Whitten, Detroit News, National Library of Medicine, Robert Frank, National Institutes of Health, Black History Month, Detroit News

The National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine has acquired the papers of the late Charles F. Whitten, a respected Detroit pediatric...

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Living Cells, Complex Systems and the Economy

James A. Shapiro | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Financialization, Yaneer-Bar-Yam, Leland Hartwell, New-England-Complex-Systems-Institute, Checkpoints, Evolution, Cell Cycle, Cognition, Robert Frank, Financial Regulation, Necsi, Science News
James A. Shapiro

Living cells are replete with intricate monitoring and regulatory circuits because survival, reproduction and adaptation to changing circumstances must be highly robust. Understanding these circuits and how they operate is a priority for 21st century cell and molecular biology.

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Bonnie Kavoussi

Expert: Wealthy Will Not Be Go-To Job Creators In 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Video, World in 2012, Wealthy, The One Percent, The Economist, Investment, Millionaires, Billionaires, Job Creation, Robert Frank, Business News

The richest people in the world are not set to rescue the economy any time soon, because they are worried about shielding their own wealth in an era o...

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Ai Weiwei Early Photographs Shown In NY

AP | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Photography, Government, Nyc, East Village, Asia Society, Chinese Government, Ai Weiwei Early Photographs, Tompkins Square Park, Ai Weiwei, Allen Ginsberg, China, New York, Robert Frank, Detainee, Arts News

NEW YORK — An exhibition of more than 200 photographs by Ai Weiwei chronicles New York City in the 1980s and early `90s when the recently detain...

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Allen Ginsberg at the Oscars, at MoMA, at Large

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kerouac, David Amram, Peter Orlovsky, Edie Sedgwick, Burroughs, Dennis Hopper, William Faulkne, Allen Ginsberg, Harte Crane, James Franco, Robert Frank, Micheline, Corso, Huncke, Whalen, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

Recently, the yearly reading of "Howl" at Columbia University attracted crowds to the Philosophy Hall. An irony was not missed: in his days, Allen represented rebellious youth. Now, he is the poet of our time.

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How Income Inequality Helped Spark the Great Recession

Jake Whitney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poor, The Great Depression, Trickle Down, Income Inequality, Economy, Great Recession, Middle Class, Great Depression, Sara Solnick, Robert Frank, Mary Kaptur, David Hemenway, Tunisia, Egypt, Politics News
Jake Whitney

Governmental policies over the past three decades have resulted in an indebted middle class. Yet a healthy society depends upon a large and vibrant one. Why aren't Americans more alarmed?

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David Amram at 80

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Amram, Odetta, John Ventimiglia, Joe Papp, Dizzy Gillestie, Frank Mccourt, Max Roach, Woody Guthrie, John Frankenheimer, Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie, Maurice Peress, Tokasin Ghosthorse, Jack Kerouac. Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

No one can believe David Amram is now 80. Yes, you can do the math. But, to see him cavorting about the ample stage in front of a packed Symphony Spac...

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Not All Big Name Photography Has a Big Price

Daniel Grant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Robert Frank, Ansel Adams, Entertainment News
Daniel Grant

Works by the most lionized photographers of the past century --Walker Evans and Ansel Adams, for instance -- are much more affordable than those of their counterparts in painting and sculpture.

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Seen and Heard in New York: Liv Ullmann, Joan Osborne, Charlotte Rampling, Alec Baldwin and Robert Frank

Jane Levere | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paley Center for Media, New York Philharmonic, Cate Blanchett, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jack Kerouac, Joan Osborne, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Charlotte Rampling, Live From Lincoln Center, Alec Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Frank, Barney Rosset, Liv Ullmann, New York News
Jane Levere

Although Liv Ullmann's acclaimed production of A Streetcar Named Desire with Cate Blanchett ended its run yesterday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, it might live on in film.

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What Makes A Photo Book A Bestseller?

Photo District News | Conor Risch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joyce Tenneson, Elephant Reflections, Photography Books, Andrew Zuckerman, Photo Books, Book Publishing, Photography, The Sartorialist, Books, Robert Frank, Barack Obama, Bestsellers, Obama Books, Books News

For photographers with projects that have commercial potential, book publishing can be lucrative. Just ask Andrew Zuckerman about his books "Wisdom" o...

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Best Books In Photography From The Guardian

The Guardian | Sean O'Hagan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, Irving Penn, Black Panthers, Iphone, Cell Phone, Expensive Book, Photography Book, England, Art Book, Guardian, Robert Frank, Books News

In 2009, photography grappled more than ever with the notion that the mobile phone, rather than the cheap digital camera, may yet make photographers o...

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Does A Nation of Ninnies Need A Nanny?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Keynesian Economics, Greed, Thomas Friedman, Teabaggers, Wingnuts, Sean Hannity, Jon Stewart, New Deal, Liberalism, Thomas Farley, Victorians, Glenn Beck, Gardening, Robert Frank, Happiness, Green News
Kerry Trueman

What's the difference between an overly bubbly housing market and sugary carbonated beverages? Both appeal to our infantile desire for instant gratification.

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