Ellen Gandy: Silver Butterfly Shanghai

E.G gets silver medal in 200m butterfly today at Shanghai World Championships.

Los Angeles House- Tim Street Porter

Outstanding houses from Tim Street-Porter's book Los Angeles House.

All text and photos Tim Street Porter.

The Storer House by Frank Lloyd Wright

The Samuels-Novarro House by Lloyd Wright

The Kings Road House by Rudolf Schindler

The Hollyhock House by Frank Lloyd Wright

The Dolores Del Rio House by Cedric Gibbons and Douglas Honnold

The Adamson House by Stiles Clements

The Ackerberg House by Richard Meier

Sortiglium by Tony Duquette

Schnabel House by Frank Gehry

Joshua Tree by Schweitzer/Bim

Castillo Del Lago by John Delario

Casa Bienvenita by Addison Mizner

The Gamble House by Greene and Greene

Dawnridge by Tony Duquette
Houses from Tim Street Porter's book, Los Angeles House

Sanja Ivekovic

Double-Life, 1975-6

Extracts from Lotty Sanna's 2011 Dissertation-

Pretty Vacant: Narcissism and Feminist Activism in Sanja Iveković's work of the 1970s

Sanja Iveković (Zagreb, 1949) is a female artist whose career began in former Yugoslavia in the 1970s and whose oeuvre of work consists of collage, photography, video, drawings, public action and installation. Iveković’s most powerful works address the issue of the representation of women in the ‘public’ sphere and the way that this affects a woman’s behaviour in her ‘private’ life.

In 1975-76, as a reaction to the imagery promoted by mass media that had begun to invade the whole visual world of Iveković’s society, she created three series, A Double Life, 1975, Tragedy of a Venus, 1975, and A Sweet Life, 1975-6.

In Double Life Iveković creates sixty four juxtaposed image comparisons using advertisements containing a picture of a woman next to photographs of herself, taken from her private collection (1953-75), in which her look and pose resemble that of the other woman.

For Sweet Life, an image from a celebrity scandal magazine is compared to a private photograph of Iveković.

In Tragedy of a Venus an image of Iveković is compared to an image of Marilyn Monroe taken from a magazine published after her death. Each series flows into the next, lending themselves to being viewed as a whole series.

Viewed together they provide a visualisation of the artist’s progressive realisation of her lack of originality and agency, as her life mimics so closely the images that surround her.

How to be Pregnant

H B-C and MIA

Warrior Silvers

Maggie Smith as Professor McGonigal In HP&DH II, Anjelica as Etheline in The Royal Tenenbaums, Meryl Streep in The Hours

Warrior Blondes

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Patricia Arquette fighting back in True Romance, Joanna Lumley as Patsy in AbFab, Daryl Hannah in Kill Bill II, Jemima Pearl of BeYourOwnPet, Robyn Cohen in The Life Aquatic, SJo in Sofia Coppella's Lost in Translation, Uma in Kill Bill II, C Sevigny in Big Love, Gwyneth as Margot Tenenbaum in The RTs, Ludvine Sagnier in Swimming Pool

Warrior Redheads

Jane Goldman, Run Lola Run, Julianne Moore in The Hours, Caitlin Moran (with Lady Gaga), Peggy in Madmen, Susan Sarandon in Thelma and Louise