Remembering Johnny Carson on his birthday π
π· Philippe Halsman, 1966
"Carson hosted with an unusually light touch and an equanimity that stands out in todayβs hyperventilating culture."
- Jason @zinoman
Johnny Carson by Philippe Halsman, 1966
"Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?"
Johnny Carson by Philippe Halsman, 1966
"It was so hot today I saw a pigeon walking in the shadow of Orson Welles."
Johnny Carson by Philippe Halsman, 1966
"Some sad news from Australia: the inventor of the boomerang grenade died today."
Coffee with Johnny Carson βοΈ
π· Bruce Baron for GQ, 1971
Johnny Carson by Philippe Halsman, 1966
"I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty."
Johnny Carson comes out for the last time: May 22, 1992
π· Alice S. Hall
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Remembering Pablo Picasso on his birthday π
π· Jacques Henri Lartigue, Cannes, 1955
"Only one person has the right to criticize me. Itβs Picasso."
- Henri Matisse
Picasso has a visitor: the young Brigitte Bardot. She was 21 at the time.
π· Boris Lipnitzki, Cannes, 1956
Peggy Guggenheim in her Palazzo Venier Dei Leoni, Venice, with Picasso's On the Beach
π· Slim Aarons, 1978
Happy birthday Jane Holzer! π
π· Jack Mitchell, late 1960s
"She is gorgeous in the most outrageous way. Her hair rises up from her head in a huge hairy corona, a huge tan mane around a narrow face & two eyes opened - swock! - like umbrellas."
- Tom Wolfe, "The Girl of the Year"
Baby Jane Holzer by Susan Wood, 1965
"Jane Holzer is This Year's Girl, at least, the New Celebrity, none of your old idea of sexpots, prima donnas, romantice tragediennes, she is the girl who knows... The Stones, East End vitality..."
- Tom Wolfe
All eyes are on Warhol Superstar Baby Jane Holzer, named 'The Girl of the Year' by Andy Warhol.
She's at the Peppermint Lounge, where the music is by Herman's Hermits.
π· Don Paulsen, c. 1965
Remembering Ned Rorem on his birthday π
π· Man Ray, Paris, 1953
"He has the gift for letting poetry sing, and he knows the human voice β the warmth and the timbres, and how to bring them out in exactly the right place."
- Joshua Barone
Ned Rorem by Horst P. Horst
"There are certain things I can't get the point of. Bagels, for instance. Why do people like them? I can't get the point of Berlioz. I can dislike a composer, while admitting what others see in him or her. But not Berlioz."
The Paris Diary of Ned Rorem was published in 1966. His boyfriend at the time, Joe Adamiak, was a graphic artist, & did the layout for the book. And took the cover photo as well, which Rorem calls "pretty good". amzn.to/2Tvwu5L
Remembering Lawren Harris on his birthday π
Hiking shirtless near Mount Temple in the Rockies
"He stopped making scenes of shady lanes & streets with strolling couples, & almost every living thing vanished from his paintings."
- @SteveMartinToGo, The Idea of North
"Annie Philbin, the canny director of the Hammer Museum, looked curiously at a small picture over her shoulder & said 'Who's that?' In the moment I realized that I had a secret wish: that Lawren Harris be better known in the United States."
- @SteveMartinToGo
Highly recommended: The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris, a 2015/16 exhibition @agotoronto@hammer_museum, curated by @SteveMartinToGo amzn.to/2YtboZ2
Today we're celebrating the great Canadian painter's birthday π¨π¦
Remembering Doris Lessing on her birthday π
π· Roger Mayne, 1959 @NPGLondon
"Doris Lessing is the ideal winner of the Nobel Prize. After all, the prize is about idealism, & was founded in the belief that writers can make the world a better place."
- Tom Payne
Doris Lessing by Marianne Majerus, 1984 @NPGLondon
"What luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking & startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under your palm, ... the grace & charm even in a quite ordinary workaday puss."
What a lovely portrait of Doris Lessing, by Toby Melville.
"She was adept at tracing sly signs of continuity where that particular path through the narrative woods had been overgrown and bypassed time out of mind β not least by Lessing."
- Lorna Sage