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DORA MAAR

DORA MAAR—the comprehensive retrospective of the great surrealist photographer, photomontage artist, and painter—is now on view at Tate Modern.

DORA MAAR is curated by Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska and Damarice Amao (curator and assistant curator, Centre Pompidou, Paris), and Amanda Maddox (associate curator, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles), with Emma Lewis (assistant Curator, Tate Modern).

DORA MAAR

Through March 15.

Tate Modern

Millbank, London.

Dora Maar, from top: Model Star, 1936, silver gelatin print, Thérond Collection; Untitled, 1935, silver gelatin print, formerly in the Christian Bouqueret Collection, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Still Life with Jar and Cup, 1945, oil on canvas, private collection; The years lie in wait for you, circa 1935, William Talbott Hillman Collection; 29 rue d’Astorg, circa 1936; Untitled (Hand-Shell), 1934; The Conversation, 1937, Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte, Madrid © FABA, photograph by Marc Domage; Woman Sitting in Profile, circa 1930, (tattoo patterns drawn on photograph), private collection; The Simulator, 1936, silver gelatin print printed on a carton, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Portrait of Picasso, Paris, Studio 29, rue d’Astorg, Winter, 1935, silver gelatin negative on flexible support in cellulose nitrate, Centre Pompidou; Model in Swimsuit, 1936, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Portrait of Ubu,1936, silver gelatin print, Centre Pompidou; Man looking inside a sidewalk inspection door, London, circa 1935, collection of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, New York, courtesy art2art circulating exhibitions. Images courtesy and © Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre de création industrielle, Paris, MNAM-CCI, A. Laurans, P. Migeat, RMN-GP, ADAGP, Paris, 2019, DACS, London, 2019, and the estate of Dora Maar.


CÉLINE SCIAMMA IN CONVERSATION

At the center of the film is this idea that there is no muse, or that it’s a beautiful word for hiding the reality of how women have been collaborating with artists. I wanted to portray the intellectual dialog and not to forget that there are several brains in the room. We see how art history reduces the collaboration between artists and their companions: before, a muse was this fetishized, silent, beautiful woman sitting in the room, whereas we now know that Dora Maar, the “muse” of Picasso, was this great Surrealist photographer. And Gabrièle Buffet-Picabia, the companion of Picabia, was intensely involved in his evolution…

I wanted to portray the reality of that in the process of actually making a film in strong collaboration with my actresses. — Céline Sciamma, writer and director of PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE

Sciamma and her stars—Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel—are in town to present a special screening of PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE, followed by a Q & A. Three days later, the writer-director will present an encore screening.

PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE

CÉCILE SCIAMMA, NOÉMIE MERLANT, and ADÈLE HAENEL Q & A

Tuesday, January 7, at 7 pm.

CÉCILE SCIAMMA Q & A

Friday, January 10, at 7 pm.

The Landmark

10850 West Pico Boulevard, West Los Angeles.

Cécile Sciamma, Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), from top: Adèle Haenel; Haenel (left) and Noémie Merlant; Valeria Golino; Haenel and Golino; Merlant; U.S. film poster; Merlant and Haenel; portrait of Haenel’s character; Merlant and Haenel. Images courtesy and © the filmmaker, the actors, the photographers, and Neon.

GIACOMETTI AND JAMES LORD

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FINAL PORTRAIT—starring Geoffrey Rush as Alberto Giacometti and Armie Hammer as James Lord—recounts the friendship between the artist and his biographer.

Lord was a great intimate of Giacometti, Picasso, and Dora Maar. In addition to his Giacometti texts, Lord is the author of several memoirs recounting his times with Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Marie-Laure de Noailles, Jean Cocteau, Balthus, and Harold Acton. Lord’s last book was My Queer War, based on his experiences in the Second World War.

The film, directed by Stanley Tucci, co-stars Clémence Poésy, Sylvie Testud, and Tony Shalhoub as Diego Giacometti.

SXSW will host the North American premiere on Friday evening.

 

FINAL PORTRAIT, Friday, March 9, at 6 pm.

STATESIDE THEATRE, 719 Congress Avenue, Austin.

 

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Opens March 23:

LAEMMLE ROYAL, 11523 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles.

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Armie Hammer (left) and Geoffrey Rush in Final Portrait.

Final Portrait

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