Additional ways to donate

Thank you to all of you who responded. I've been talking to many of you about your experiences in trying to help. Here are some additional resources. Please, if you have any information that would help people decide or find ways to help post a comment. Let us know your experience.

American Airlines is apparently taking doctors and nurses to Haiti for free: you can call 212 697 9767

Ups will ship anything 50lbs or less for Free to Haiti

and some more great organizations to donate to:

-UNICEF.org (for whom children are the first priority)
-HOPEInternational.org (my college friend Pete is the president, so I know it's trustworthy)
-PartnerswithHaiti.org (my uncle is the treasurer, so, again, I know the money will go where it is needed)
-Foodforthepoor.org
-Doctorswithoutborders.org
-RedCross.org


Thanks again for all your input.

Marlon Krieger

Trusted ways to donate to Haiti

Please help in some way:

AmeriCares has pledged $5 million to Haitian quake relief, and is soliciting donations to a general emergency disaster relief fund to help it accomplish that.

CARE is sending relief workers into the city of Port-au-Prince and needs funds to support its efforts. Suggested donations range from $50 to $1,000, but you can name your own amount if you prefer.

Catholic Relief Services has an office in Haiti, and luckily it’s still standing even though one of its neighbors collapsed. The organization is accepting donations of any amount.

Direct Relief International has committed up to $1 million in aid through two on-the-ground partners, and is sending containers of medical material aid.

Oxfam has 200 people on the ground to deal with the crisis, and began its efforts by trying to get clean water to victims of the quake. One of its staffers recorded a podcast describing the situation. You can donate on the American or UK site, depending on where you’re located.

Yele Haiti is sponsored by prominent Haitian-born musician Wyclef Jean. You can donate through its website or via text message as described in the next segment.

UPDATE: Google Support Disaster Relief is a website Google has updated to respond to the crisis. Google has promised $1 million in support, but the site is also an easy place to donate money to either UNICEF or CARE. It also provides hospital addresses and links to sources for news on the situation.

Donate With a Text Message

Musician Wyclef Jean has used Twitter to rally web users to contribute to his grassroots Yele Haiti earthquake fund. He’s urged his followers to text “Yele” to the number 501501. If you send the text, the organization will receive $5. The amount will be added to your next cell phone bill. Consider retweeting Wyclef’s updates and get some of your Twitter followers to donate, too.

There’s another texting option spreading through Twitter. You can text “HAITI” to 90999 to donate $10 via the Red Cross. Thanks to ABC News for pointing these out.

Laurence Miller Gallery Exhibitiions

It's been a couple of months of killer exhibitions in New York; Kandinsky at the Guggenheim, Tim Robbins at the Moma, Man Ray at the Jewish Museuem, David Hockny at Pace Wildenstein and many more. January is off to a good start with two simultaneous showings at the Laurence Miller Gallery next week.



Laurence Miller Gallery is exhibiting 15 color photographs by the forty-eight year old French photographer Denis Darzacq. HYPER refers to the new garish supermarkets in Paris and Rouen where consumer goods, brightly packaged and presented, make for a vivid and contemporary backdrop for his pictures. Darzacq brings street dancers, mostly young men and women in their late teens and early twenties into these stores and asks them to perform their leaps, jumps, twirls, and other gravity-defying movements. Darzacq's working methods are wonderfully captured in a documentary film by Marie-Clotilde Chery. The photographs explore the tension between being and having, between the human body and the built environment. They offer a fresh, witty and intensely colorful commentary on global consumerism and freedom of spirit.

20 West 57th Street, 3rd Floor
new York, NY
REception Thursday, January 14 6-8pm




Featuring Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Philippe Halsman, Andre Kertesz,
Jacques Henri Lartigue, Helen Levitt, Ramon Masatas, Jerry Uelsmann, Garry Winogrand

Simultaneously being shown is "Body Language", a selection of twenty historic photographs that celebrate the language of forms created by the body in motion. Included are a mid-1970's Garry Winogrand of leaping cheerleaders, the classic 1926 Andre Kertesz "Satiric Dancer", two "divers" by Aaron Siskind from his series "The Terrors and Pleasures of Levitation", a Jerry Uelsmann nude floating over the sea (shown above), and Helen Levitt's wonderful view of two uninhibited children dancing in the street.

20 West 57th Street, 3rd Floor
new York, NY
REception Thursday, January 14 6-8pm

Man Ray Exhibition

Visit the blog at http://www.marlonkrieger.com/blog.html

Man Ray, The Art of Reinvention at the Jewish Museum
Through March 14th, 2010
5th Avenue at 92nd street
thejewishmuseum.org

Legendary Dada and Surrealist artist Man Ray (August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976), born Emmanuel Radnitzky, was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. Best known in the art world for his avant-garde photography, Man Ray produced major works in a variety of media and considered himself a painter above all. He was also a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. He is noted for his photograms, which he renamed "rayographs" after himself.

The Real story of Thanksgiving

Most of us associate the holiday with happy Pilgrims and Indians sitting down to a big feast. And that did happen - once.

The story began in 1614 when a band of English explorers sailed home to England with a ship full of Patuxet Indians bound for slavery. They left behind smallpox which virtually wiped out those who had escaped. By the time the Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts Bay they found only one living Patuxet Indian, a man named Squanto who had survived slavery in England and knew their language. He taught them to grow corn and to fish, and negotiated a peace treaty between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Nation. At the end of their first year, the Pilgrims held a great feast honoring Squanto and the Wampanoags.

But as word spread in England about the paradise to be found in the new world, religious zealots called Puritans began arriving by the boat load. Finding no fences around the land, they considered it to be in the public domain. Joined by other British settlers, they seized land, capturing strong young Natives for slaves and killing the rest. But the Pequot Nation had not agreed to the peace treaty Squanto had negotiated and they fought back. The Pequot War was one of the bloodiest Indian wars ever fought.

In 1637 near present day Groton, Connecticut, over 700 men, women and children of the Pequot Tribe had gathered for their annual Green Corn Festival which is our Thanksgiving celebration. In the predawn hours the sleeping Indians were surrounded by English and Dutch mercenaries who ordered them to come outside. Those who came out were shot or clubbed to death while the terrified women and children who huddled inside the longhouse were burned alive. The next day the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony declared "A Day Of Thanksgiving" because 700 unarmed men, women and children had been murdered.

Cheered by their "victory", the brave colonists and their Indian allies attacked village after village. Women and children over 14 were sold into slavery while the rest were murdered. Boats loaded with a many as 500 slaves regularly left the ports of New England. Bounties were paid for Indian scalps to encourage as many deaths as possible.

Following an especially successful raid against the Pequot in what is now Stamford, Connecticut, the churches announced a second day of "thanksgiving" to celebrate victory over the heathen savages. During the feasting, the hacked off heads of Natives were kicked through the streets like soccer balls. Even the friendly Wampanoag did not escape the madness. Their chief was beheaded, and his head impaled on a pole in Plymouth, Massachusetts -- where it remained on display for 24 years.

The killings became more and more frenzied, with days of thanksgiving feasts being held after each successful massacre. George Washington finally suggested that only one day of Thanksgiving per year be set aside instead of celebrating each and every massacre. Later Abraham Lincoln decreed Thanksgiving Day to be a legal national holiday during the Civil War -- on the same day he ordered troops to march against the starving Sioux in Minnesota.

This story doesn't have quite the same fuzzy feelings associated with it as the one where the Indians and Pilgrims are all sitting down together at the big feast. But we need to learn our true history so it won't ever be repeated. Next Thanksgiving, when you gather with your loved ones to Thank God for all your blessings, think about those people who only wanted to live their lives and raise their families. They, also took time out to say "thank you" to Creator for all their blessings.

by Susan Bates

It is sad to think that this happened, but it is important to understand all of the story and not just the happy part. Today the town of Plymouth Rock has a Thanksgiving ceremony each year in remembrance of the first Thanksgiving. There are still Wampanoag people living in Massachusetts. In 1970, they asked one of them to speak at the ceremony to mark the 350th anniversary of the Pilgrim's arrival. Here is part of what was said:

"Today is a time of celebrating for you -- a time of looking back to the first days of white people in America. But it is not a time of celebrating for me. It is with a heavy heart that I look back upon what happened to my People. When the Pilgrims arrived, we, the Wampanoags, welcomed them with open arms, little knowing that it was the beginning of the end. That before 50 years were to pass, the Wampanoag would no longer be a tribe. That we and other Indians living near the settlers would be killed by their guns or dead from diseases that we caught from them. Let us always remember, the Indian is and was just as human as the white people."

Patrick Demarchelier in NY

Patrick Demarchelie published by Steidldangin

Tuesday December 8th, 2009
exclusive book signing from 6:30 to 7:30pm

Clic Gallery
255 center street
new York, NY

Patrick Demarchelier was born outside Paris in 1943 and has lived in the US since 1975. His photos regularly appear in Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, Rolling Stone, Newsweek and Elle. Beginning in 1989, he was the official photographer of Princess Diana of Wales, becoming the first non-Briton to become an official photographer for the Royal Family. In 2007, he became an Officer dans l'ordre des Arts et Lettres, and his work was the subject of the retrospective Patrick Demarchelier: Images et Mode at the Petit Palais in Paris.

Axel Crieger

The new website is up!
http://www.axelcrieger.com/







His digital paintings combine a variety of photographs,
effects and designs, soundtracks and self - written and - recorded narrations.

Axel Crieger has studied visual communications and has
worked as a photographer, director and designer for
international clients like Levis, Time Warner, BMW,
Polaroid, Heineken, Shell, Daimler, Ford, ARD,
Random House, RAI and others, in New York,
Los Angeles, Paris, London and Milan.

He met with Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys painted over
one of his works, to declare the result „best of the show“.
Oscar winner Michael Blake published his book
„American Night“. His work has received critical acclaim and numerous awards.

His pictures have found empty nails on walls in places like Berlin, New York, Amsterdam, Sao Paulo, Hamburg, Kitzbühel, Rome, Munich and Los Angeles.

Man Ray Exhibition

"Le Violon d'Ingres," 1924. Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection. "Lingerie," print from the portfolio Elictricite, 1931. Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York. Museum purchase with funds provided by Andrea B. and Peter D. Klein. "Gift," c. 1958 (replica of 1921 original). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. James Thrall Soby Fund, 1966. "Rayograph," 1926, gelatin silver print. Private Collection, New York. All images copyright 2009 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.

Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention continues at The Jewish Museum through March 14, 2010. 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, New York, NY

A few images from California

From a magical trip to Joshua Tree, Amboy and Big Sur. Just a couple snaps..

The Iron Curtain Diaries - 1989 2009

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall

For a great interactive on the Berlin wall including maps and videos:
The Iron Curtain Diaries - 1989 2009

if you speak German check the Spiegel site for incredible footage from the last 20 years including interviews;
http://www.spiegel.de/sptv/0,1518,659283,00.html

Marlon @ Christie's, 20 Rockefeller Plaza

One of my photographs from "Autumn Leaves"(Leaves of Autumn) will be up for auction at Christie's on Friday November 13th in support of the Alliance of the Arts.

For a list of the 16 Artists and their pieces go to
Kiptonart.com/magazine

Tickets:
Nonprofit/Artist — One ticket at a discounted rate for nonprofit employees and artists — $50.00
Friend of the Arts — Single ticket — $100.00
Supporter — Two $100 tickets — $200.00
Host — Two tickets at $250 each — $500.00
Leader — Four tickets at $250 each — $1,000.00
Benefactor — Ten tickets at $250 each — $2,500.00
For tickets click here

Press release:
NEW YORK, November 4th, 2009—The Alliance for the Arts will partner with the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI) to host the annual Friends of the Arts Party at Christie’s, opening the galleries for an exclusive preview of the much-heralded Latin American Art show, cocktails and music on Friday the 13th of November, 6:30-8:30 pm.

The Friends Party began in 2003 as a way to support the Alliance’s work as a leader in arts advocacy and to engage artists, policymakers and patrons in conversation about the arts.

“As we face a time when support for the arts is more crucial than ever, the Friends party is an ideal opportunity for younger New Yorkers to become arts advocates,” said Randall Bourscheidt, President of the Alliance for the Arts.

The Alliance’s new partnership with NYPLI is an effort to economize and share resources and serve our mutual commitment to making New York the most accessible and livable city possible. ”The idea of bringing together two critical organizations for the good of the city is a powerful one,” said Michael Rothenberg, Executive Director of NYLPI. ”We expect this is an idea that endures beyond the recession.”

Event leaders include Ashton Hawkins and John L. Moore III, Paul Beirne, Robert C. Clauser, Kipton Cronkite, William Earle, Nick Hockens, Werner H. Kramarsky, Dr. J. Marc Michel Léonard and Michael Yeager, Helen Marx, David and Elizabeth Netto, Susan D. Ralston, Jane Gregory Rubin, Joe Versace, Enzo Viscusi and Alan Wanzenberg. Other special guests include public officials Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, State Senator Liz Krueger and State Assemblyman Jonathan L. Bing, and artists Cornelia Guest, William Ivey Long and Tor Seidler.

In addition to Christie’s, sponsors include Eni, ForbesLife, KiptonART, NYCharities.org, City Winery and Diamond Standard Vodka. KiptonART will present a silent auction featuring KiptonART artists, with a portion of the proceeds going to the Alliance.

Christie’s is located at 20 Rockefeller Plaza on 49th Street between Fifth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas.

THE ALLIANCE FOR THE ARTS serves the entire cultural community through research and advocacy and informs the public through cultural guides and calendars. Now in its 33rd year, the Alliance publishes information on the arts and cultural events in New York City as well as studies highlighting the importance of the arts to the economy and to education.

The Alliance helps government and civil leaders understand the importance of the arts to New York City by making the case for more support for culture from all levels of government. One of the ways it does this is through the Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Fellowship for Public Policy and the Arts, which was inaugurated in 2002 with the objective of training cultural policy leaders through engagement with the Alliance’s advocacy work.

Congratulations to Lu Guang

Congratulations to Lu Guang for winning the coveted Grant in Humanistic Photography by the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund. He has created striking imagery over the past 5 years documenting the ecological disasters in China.

Born in 1961 in Zhejiang Province, China, Lu Guang has been enamored with photography from the moment he held the camera for the first time in 1980 when he was a factory worker in his hometown of Yongkang County. From 1993 to 1995, he studied at the Fine Arts Academy of Tsinghua University in Beijing. A freelancer since 1993, his focus has been stories on major social and environmental issues in his own country. His photographic projects include essays on gold diggers, small coal mines, the SARS epidemic, drug addiction, AIDS villages in Henan Province, the Qinghai-Tibet railway.

Lu Guang has been documenting the ecological disasters in China resulting from the rapid growth of the economy since 2005, focusing on environmental pollution and the problem of schistosomiasis (bilharzia). Over the last three decades, peoples' living standards have constantly been on the rise in the country. At the same time, industrial pollution has brought serious consequences for public health and for the environment at large.

Addiction & Love

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http://www.marlonkrieger.com/blog.html

a slide show Addiction & Love

Legendary jazz musician Paquito D'Rivera @ Brooklyn Center

I highly recommend this for a night of incredible music and dance.

From World Stages: Dance
Brooklyn Center Presents

SERIES PREMIERE!

Luna Negra Dance Theater
with Special Guests Turtle Island Quartet
and Paquito D'Rivera

Dedicated to the works of Latino choreographers, Luna Negra Dance Theater celebrates its 10th anniversary by teaming up with the bold Turtle Island Quartet and legendary jazz musician Paquito D’Rivera, both multiple Grammy Award winners, in a celebration of the rich music and dance traditions of Cuba with their newest work entitled Danzón.

Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 2pm Matinee
Walt Whitman Theatre

Tickets:
General Admission: $30
Multibuy: $27
WorldPack: $25

Lumenhouse tonight

Corporeality, an exhibiton of works by Katharyn Laranger, Jonathan Nissenbaum, Emily Orling and Stephen Workman. Co-curated by Aurora Robson and Mariko Tanaka, Corporeality examine physical states through transfiguration and metamorphosis of the corporeal body. The opening will take place tonight from 7-9 pm. There will be complimentary refreshments and the artists will be present.


Exhibition on view from october 17-November 15th
Gallery Hours: 12-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays. Weekdays by appointment only

Lumenhouse
47 Beaver Street
Brooklyn, NY
www.lumenhouse.com
info@lumenhouse.com

In London; New museum opens for "outsider art"

{Brett's museum is all about art created by people without formal training, who live "outside our modern society"}

Special to MORE INTELLIGENT LIFE

"The boundary between 'normal' primitive art and the artistry of the insane is blurry," says Bruno Bischofberger, an art dealer based in Zurich with a sizeable collection of folk art. Yet "outsider art" is distinct from folk art, he explains, as it is often associated with the mentally ill. Indeed, many of the biggest discoveries of the genre were found in the archives of psychiatric hospitals.

This is perhaps why the term "outsider" irks James Brett, a filmmaker, entrepreneur and the founder of Britain's first museum dedicated to the work of non-traditional artists. The Museum of Everything [1] opened its doors in London's Primrose Hill neighbourhood on October 14th, timed to coincide with London's Frieze Art Fair [2]. But unlike the preening, self-conscious types who frequent the parties and gallery stalls of this contemporary-art extravaganza, Brett's museum is all about art created by people without formal training, who live "outside our modern society". Housed in a former dairy, the collection includes more than 200 paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations by around 95 artists, all of whom simply felt compelled to make something.

"There is a real difference", Brett says, explaining his preference for the term "non-traditional" instead of "outsider" in classifying these artists. "We also do not highlight that people have a disability, because often that makes people pre-define it in their minds."

The notion of outsider art was born in the late 19th century, when enlightened European psychiatrists began noticing the aesthetic value of their patients' artwork, often created with whatever fabric or materials [3] they could get hold of. In 1922 Hans Prinzhorn, a psychiatrist and art historian in Heidelberg, Germany, published "Bildnerei der Geisteskranken [4]" ("Artistry of the Mentally Ill [5]"), a study of art made by the mentally ill, after amassing a collection of more than 5,000 [6]examples of art from 450 patients in mental hospitals across Europe. His colleagues in psychiatry had reservations about his decision to collect the works and publish the book, but it was enthusiastically received by Max Ernst, Jean Dubuffet, Paul Klee and other avant-garde artists. They were fascinated by the raw quality of the art produced at the margins of society. Dubuffet in particular became a champion of what he called l'art brut, by which he meant uncooked art or art in its most immediate form.

At about the same time, in 1921, Walter Morgenthaler, another psychiatrist, published "Ein Geisteskranker als Künstler [7]" ("A Psychiatric Patient as Artist"), a book about the work of a patient called Adolf Wölfli [8], who had worked for 30 years in his small cell in a Swiss mental hospital. Wölfli, who had been physically and sexually abused as a child, suffered from psychosis that led to severe hallucinations. After his arrest for child molestation, he was kept in isolation because he was violent. At some point he started to draw, eventually producing huge drawings bound in 45 mighty tomes, with ornate autobiographical writing recounting his mind's travels and exploits.

In the English-speaking world, awareness and knowledge of art brut or outsider art spread slowly. The discovery of the monumental work by Henry Darger, a Chicago-based artist, helped to make the artform better known in America. Darger, a hospital porter, lived alone in a rented room for more than 40 years, writing and drawing a 15-volume epic, "In the Realms of the Unreal [9]". He created an eerie, powerful world of seemingly innocent children in idyllic settings, who must enter horrific scenes of carnage and torture in a brutal battle against child-slave owners (pictured top). Some of Darger's works are 30-feet long and many, including what is on display at the museum, are painted on both sides of the paper. Darger made himself the star of the narrative as the children's protector.

Darger’s work has a room by itself in the labyrinthine Museum of Everything, which has numerous smallish rooms, staircases and one big hall-like space. His pieces are arranged so that visitors can see both sides of each one, zig-zagging along the pictorial path of his story-telling. At first Darger's images enchant with their children’s story-book prettiness. It is only at second sight that one perceives what is so deeply unsettling about these scenes--their violence and bizarre sexuality.

Shortly before his death in 1973, Darger's landlord, a photographer, came across his work and immediately recognised its artistic merit. Today his art is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the American Folk Art Museum in New York, the Centre for Intuitive and Outsider Art and the Museum of Modern Art in Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne, Switzerland.

In Asia one of the best-known examples of outsider art is Nek Chand's Rock Garden [10] in Chandigarh in northern India. Chand started building in secret on government land, making his sculptures with recycled materials from demolition sites. His work was discovered 18 years later in 1975, when it had grown into a 12-acre area of interlinked courtyards, each filled with hundreds of pottery-covered concrete sculptures of dancers, musicians and animals. This makeshift sculpture park was in serious danger of being demolished by the authorities, but Chand managed to save it by getting public opinion on his side. In 1976, the park was inaugurated as a public space. Chand was given a salary and a workforce of 50 labourers to maintain his magical kingdom, which eventually grew to a 25-acre complex.

Chand’s work is one of the central displays at the new Museum of Everything. Its appeal is a bit more straightforward, with its brightly coloured rock sculptures and rag dolls. Chand was fascinated by the idea of creating something from nothing, and he skilfully managed to transform urban and industrial waste into beauty.

"Britain has never had a permanent home for artwork created outside mainstream art circles," says Brett. "Call it art brut, self taught, outsider art, what you will, these names mean very little and they rarely do justice to the astonishing range of private and personal imagery, made often by those in the most difficult circumstances. It is like stepping into another world."

Brett explains that the works on view have been chosen for their artistic merit, not for the (often fascinating) biographies of the artists behind them. Wandering around the rooms here, visitors are left with a sense of what people can create--urgently, beautifully--without a thought for the art world.


Picture credit: all images courtesy of the Museum of Everything
[11]

(Vendeline von Bredow [12] is a business correspondent of The Economist [13], based in London. She is on sabbatical to research and write the authorised biography of Gianni Agnelli. Her last article for More Intelligent life was about Alexander von Vegesack [14], director of the Vitra Design Museum, in Germany.)

www.moreintelligentlife.com

Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81

A powerful look into a woman's institutional ward in the late 70's. The remarkably candid comments of the inmates is seamlessly pieced together by Karen Folger Jacobs. With her photography Mary Ellen Mark leaves no doubt in your mind of the horror and medieval state of mental institutions but manages to show the inmates distressed humanity with a dignity that humanizes her subjects who are at times treated very much less than that. A stark and shockingly insightful book.

Ward 81.
Photography by Mary Ellen Mark; foreword by Milos Forman; text by Karen Folger Jacobs.
Damiani, 2008. 96 pp., 85 duotone illustrations., 13x9".

www.maryellenmark.com

For all you David Hockney fans

An informative article on Hockney, he will be showing new work through December 24th in Chelsea

David Hockney?s Long Road From Los Angeles to Yorkshire - NYTimes.com

Nancy Danino at The Bitter End in NYC

Tomorrow Tuesday October 13th @ The Bitter End 8pm

She is back from her week-long tour out west for "Hollywood Mon Amour"and will be performing with her band some new songs and old from her upcoming solo album. Should be a great night so come down

Portraits of Dj Steve Tek

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Marlon's Blog

Cuba, a few portraits

http://www.marlonkrieger.com/blog.html

Portraits of Alistair Vlok

Alistair Vlok is an urban documentary and fashion photographer based out of London. We took these portraits on his last visit to the States.
You can view Alistiar's work at
www.alistairvlok.com











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Kipton Art

After a month of basking in the Brazilian sun, climbing to catch sunrises in Joshua Tree, California and wading with Sea Lions in the frigid waters of Point Lobo in Big Sur I'm back in New York. I've been playing catch up for the past week but hope to have some new pictures up by the end of the month. I plan on being in New York for the most of the winter so feel free to reach out regarding work or collaborations.


You can now find my work at Kipton Art, follow the link below to see my profile.
Marlon on KiptonArt.com

Redux in the bathroom

These are images taken a while back, but edited for the first time.

Showing in NYC

Favela Cubana presents

Marlon Krieger's

Island in the Stream
a story of Cuba
August 5th, 2009 6-9pm
543 LaGuardia Place, New York

Join me for drinks and a slide show of new work.
A special screening of my creative short "Cuba in Collage" will be shown at 8:30.
A selection of images from my first tour of Cuba in 2005 will be on display and for sale.

Stay for dinner if you like as the food is a delicious mix of brazilian and Cuban plates. See you there....

www.favelacubana.com
www.marlonkrieger.com

The Latin Choreographers Festival

July 23rd-26th

Go check out this festival in Brooklyn. It's sure to have some incredible dancers and great performances.

Ursula Verduzco is the founder of the festival and the curator:
A Soloist with the Staten Island Ballet and a guest dancer with different ballet companies around NY now is the Founder and Curator of The Latin Choreographers Festival were choreographers: Roman Baca, Benjamin Briones, Yesid Lopez, Annabella Gonzalez, Jesus Pacheco, Minou Lalleman, Robert Spin Olvera,   Pedro Ruiz, Ursula Verduzco and guest company Thomas/Ortiz Dance will present beautiful choreographic works.

Ursula is bringing once again this exciting event to Teatro IATI, a New York-based, non-profit theater organization established in 1968, dedicated to theater productions for all audiences in Spanish and English languages. Specializing in the performance and promotion of contemporary Latino playwrights, readings, workshops, and full theatrical and dance productions, serving as a bridge between artists and undeserved communities in New York , the U.S. and around the world.


Check the website for showtimes and dates

http://www.latinchoreographersfestival.com/


photo:info@rachelneville.com

A New website:

Couple of noteworthy updates I wanted to share with you this summer:


I've been asked to contribute an article to Fuel your Photography. You can check out the story about my experience in Haiti during the crisis in 2004 at the link below. If you have a minute feel free to leave a comment, I would love to hear from you.
Blue Helmets and Kevlar Vests


There are seven new galleries on the website with new images including: nude&noir with 5 sub galleries, fashion&commercial with the latest campaigns and a new video gallery where you can see slide shows, shorts and behind the scenes from various photo shoots.
marlonkrieger.com

I will be in New York for most of the summer working on a two personal projects, but will still be available for gigs and collaborations. If your are interested in contacting to hire or even just to chat shoot me an e-mail at info@marlonkrieger.com. I wish you a wonderful summer and hope to hear from you soon.


Marlon K.

NYC sunset...last night

was an incredible sunset with cloud formations you don't see too often. They are called mammatus and are very rare. This was just after the storm last night...

For those of you with patience and an interest..

I was never very happy with my pictures from China, but I recently went through them again and am pretty surprised to find more than a few that I like. I have posted, unedited, to flickr 400 shots and would love any and all comments. You can leave them under the respective image, or drop me a note on the blog. Or just browse through the adventures..
Click the link below:
Flickr

For all you artists and photography lovers, check this website

American Suburb is a phenomenal blog by photographer of the same name. You can find great interviews with some of the defining photographers of our time, their work and culture.

Most recently "Richard Prince with Ed Ruscha", "Peter Machen with Guy Tillim" and David Steinberg with Jock Sturges"

Some of the interviews are older, some are more current, but they are all equally intriguing. What a great archive.

While you're at it check the photographers work, his portraits of children are haunting.

Article

I was asked to contribute to fuelyourphotography.com. Check out the article about my experience in Haiti during the crisis in 2004 at the link below

Blue Helmets and Kevlar Vests-by Marlon Krieger


http://www.fuelyourphotography.com/bluehelmetsandkevlarvests/

Thank you

Thank you all for your great comments! It's great to get your e-mails but don't be shy, feel free to leave your comments on the blog itself, there are little "comment" links under the posts. Although I don't mind e-mails this will encourage others.

And don't forget to sign up to my updates. I only send these out a few times a year, so it won't clog up your inbox. You can do that on my "contact" page on my website or right here on the blog on the right hand side.

Thank you

Mechante...from the Archives

Recently stumbled upon some of these.

From the Mechante of London 2008 summer season.

Still love these...

Podering on politics- Gil Scott-Heron

Lyrics from "B Movie" by Gil Scott-Heron

Well, the first thing I want to say isMandate my ass!

Because it seems as though we've been convinced that 26% of the registered voters, not even 26% of the American people, but 26% of the registered voters form a mandate or a landslide. 21% voted for Skippy and 3, 4% voted for somebody else who might have been running.

But, oh yeah, I remember. In this year that we have now declared the year from Shogun to Reagan, I remember what I said about Reaganmeant it. Acted like an actorHollyweird. Acted like a liberal. Acted like General Franco when he acted like governor of California, then he acted like a republican. Then he acted like somebody was going to vote for him for president. And now we act like 26% of the registered voters is actually a mandate. We're all actors in this I suppose.

What has happened is that in the last 20 years, America has changed from a producer to a consumer. And all consumers know that when the producer names the tunethe consumer has got to dance. That's the way it is. We used to be a producer very inflexible at that, and now we are consumers and, finding it difficult to understand. Natural resources and minerals will change your world. The Arabs used to be in the 3rd World. They have bought the 2nd World and put a firm down payment on the 1st one. Controlling your resources we'll control your world. This country has been surprised by the way the world looks now. They don't know if they want to be Matt Dillon or Bob Dylan. They don't know if they want to be diplomats or continue the same policy - of nuclear nightmare diplomacy. John Foster Dulles ain't nothing but the name of an airport now.

The idea concerns the fact that this country wants nostalgia. They want to go back as far as they can even if it's only as far as last week. Not to face now or tomorrow, but to face backwards. And yesterday was the day of our cinema heroes riding to the rescue at the last possible moment. The day of the man in the white hat or the man on the white horse - or the man who always came to save America at the last moment someone always came to save America at the last moment especially in B movies. And when America found itself having a hard time facing the future, they looked for people like John Wayne. But since John Wayne was no longer available, they settled for Ronald Reagan and it has placed us in a situation that we can only look at like a B movie.

Come with us back to those inglorious days when heroes weren't zeros. Before fair was square. When the cavalry came straight away and all-American men were like Hemingway to the days of the wondrous B movie. The producer underwritten by all the millionaires necessary will be Casper The Defensive Weinberger no more animated choice is available. The director will be Attila the Haig, running around frantically declaring himself in control and in charge. The ultimate realization of the inmates taking over at the asylum. The screenplay will be adapted from the book called Voodoo Economics by George Papa Doc Bush. Music by the Village People the very military "Macho Man."

Company!!!
Macho, macho man!
Two-three-four.
He likes to be well, you get the point.
Huuut! Your left! Your left! Your leftright, left, right, left, right!
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Nancy Danino at The Bitter End in NYC

June 3rd at 8:30 Pm

Showing at the South Street Seaport

This Thursday, May 28th I will be showing a selection of images from Island in the Stream- a story of Cuba at Onda Restaurant located at 229 Front Street in the South Street Seaport. There will be music, food and cocktails. So come down and enjoy a bit of the Cuban flavor.

4pm-8pm

Music by Dj Charo Velecio
Food by Chef Raymond Mohan
Art by Carlos Mateu
Photography by Marlon Krieger



www.ondanyc.com

Black & white to Color

I previously preferred them in Black & white, but I am finding these new color versions to be quite strong. Thoughts?

David Jay

Check out David Jay's Scar project. His gentle and beautiful portraits of women who have survived breast cancer are both inspiring and awakening. Proof yet again of the resilience of woman's physical and spiritual strength and their eternal beauty.

www.thescarproject.org

Lumenhouse Fundraiser

Lumenhouse is having a fundraiser on April 25th to support their "mom and pop" operation run by the wonderful Marshall and Aurora. For those of you who don't know, Lumenhouse is a studio space for fine art and commercial photography but also houses art studios, workshops and events. More than that it is also a haven for artist in the Bushwick community where it is located.

I will be among the over 40 incredible artists with orginal work included in the benefit auction so please come down, hang out, dance and buy some art. It will be a stellar evening and a great chance to meet fantastic people.

Island in the Stream-Cuba November 2008

This is after my latest trip to Cuba in Nov of last year.