Pauline Boty - Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Pauline Boty, The Only Blonde In The World, 1963

Pauline Boty: Pop Artist and Woman is at Wolverhampton Art Gallery until 16 November 2013.
Boty was one of the stars of British Pop Art - alongside Peter Blake, David Hockney, Derek Boshier, Peter Phillips and others. Her premature death, at 28 in 1966, and the chauvinism of art history mean that she is less well known than she should be. Hopefully this exhibition along with a concurrent display of photographs and memorabilia at Mach Schau will help to remedy this.

Pauline Boty, 5-4-3-2-1, 1963

Pauline Boty, Colour Her Gone, 1962

Pauline Boty, Bum, 1966

Pauline Boty, Nude Woman ina Coastal Landscape (nd)

Pauline Boty, It's A Man's World II, 1965

Pauline Boty, Countdown to Violence, 1964

Pauline Boty in her studio in 1964 with her now lost painting Scandal '63

Art & Photography Playlist #2 Bob Dylan: She Belongs To Me

Songs about Art and Photography: a playlist.
#2 Bob Dylan: She Belongs To Me (click to play live 1966 performance)

Barry Feinstein, Bob Dylan, Aust Ferry, 1966

She’s got everything she needs

She’s an artist, she don’t look back
She’s got everything she needs
She’s an artist, she don’t look back
She can take the dark out of the night-time
And paint the daytime black

You will start out standing
Proud to steal her anything she sees
You will start out standing
Proud to steal her anything she sees
But you will wind up peeking through her keyhole
Down upon your knees

She never stumbles
She’s got no place to fall
She never stumbles
She’s got no place to fall
She’s nobody’s child
The Law can’t touch her at all

She wears an Egyptian ring
That sparkles before she speaks
She wears an Egyptian ring
That sparkles before she speaks
She’s a hypnotist collector
You are a walking antique

Bow down to her on Sunday
Salute her when her birthday comes
Bow down to her on Sunday
Salute her when her birthday comes
For Halloween give her a trumpet
And for Christmas, buy her a drum

Bob Dylan, 1965 - on Bringing It All Back Home

Art & Photography Playlist #1 Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers: Pablo Picasso

Songs about Art and Photography: a playlist. 
#1 Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers: Pablo Picasso (click to play)

James Lord, Picasso avec une colombe, Paris, 1945

Well some people try to pick up girls
And get called assholes
This never happened to Pablo Picasso
He could walk down your street
And girls could not resist his stare and
So Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole

Well the girls would turn the color
Of the avacado when he would drive
Down their street in his El Dorado
He could walk down you street
And girls could not resist his stare
Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole
Not like you
Alright

Well he was only 5'3"
But girls could not resist his stare
Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole
Not in New York

[...]

Some people try to pick up girls
And they get called an asshole
This never happened to Pablo Picasso
He could walk down your street
And girls could not resist his stare and so
Pablo Picasso was never called... 

Jonathan Richman, 1972 - released 1976 on The Modern Lovers

Natalia Wiernik - Student Focus Winner, Sony World Photography Awards

I am so impressed by the work of Natalia Wiernik, winner of the Student Focus Photographer of the Year  in the Sony World Photography Awards (see below) that I have given her an entry here all to herself!
Wiernik is a student at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland; the finalists in the competition were asked to shoot a series of photographs on the theme of 'family'. The work, along with that of other finalists can be seen at Somerset House until 12 May.
Click on images to enlarge.

Sony World Photography Awards - Somerset House

Ernest Goh, Headshot #55 - 2nd place: Nature & Wildlife

The 2013 Sony World Photography Awards have been announced - the winners and shortlisted work will be on show at Somerset House until 12 May.
Below is a selection of the winning images - find full details of all winners and all the images on the World Photography Organisation website. Click on images to enlarge.

Andrea Gjestvang – winner, L'Iris d'Or (Photographer of the Year)

Valerio Bispuri, Prisons of South America - Winner: Contemporary Issues

Ilya Pitalev, North Korean soldiers and civilians on the stand of the Kim Il-sung stadium - Winner: Current Affairs

Myriam Meloni, from The Limousine series - Winner: Arts & Culture

Elmar Akhmetov - Winner: Low Light (Open Competition)

Natalia Wiernik, Thanksgiving - Student Focus Award

Vanessa Colareta, Still life with oranges, lemons and bread - Winner: Still Life

Klaus Thymann, i-D Iceland - Winner: Fashion & Beauty

Christian Åslund, from advertising campaign for Jim Rickey shoes - Winner: Campaign

Jens Juul, Six Degrees of Copenhagen - Winner: Portraiture

Roman Pyatkovka, Soviet Photo - Winner: Conceptual

Turner Prize 2013 - shortlist

David Shrigley, Untitled, 2012

The artists shortlisted for this year's Turner Prize are: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, David Shrigley, Tino Seghal and Laure Prouvost. 
Read Adrian Searle's assessment of the shortlist.
Work by the shortlisted artists will be shown at Ebrington in Derry, Londonderry as part of the UK City of Culture 2013, opening on 23 October 2013. The winner will be announced at an awards ceremony on Monday 2 December 2013. (Profiles below are from the Tate Gallery website.)

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is nominated for her exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery, Extracts and Verses.
Yiadom-Boakye’s painted portraits of imaginary people use invented pre-histories and raise pertinent questions about how we read pictures in general, particularly with regard to black subjects.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Liberation Two-Piece, 2013

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Complication, 2013

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Midnight, Cadiz, 2013

David Shrigley is nominated for his solo exhibition at Hayward Gallery David Shrigley: Brain Activity.
The exhibition of Shrigley’s well-loved drawings with his photography, sculpture and film offered a comprehensive overview and new perspectives on his work, revealing his black humour, macabre intelligence and infinite jest.

David Shrigley, I'm Dead, 2010

David Shrigley, Gravestone, 2008

David Shrigley, Headless Drummer, 2012

Tino Seghal is nominated for his project at documenta (XIII) This Variation, and at Tate Modern These Associations.
Seghal’s intimate works are at once structured and improvised, consisting purely of live encounters between people with a keen sensitivity to their institutional context. Through participation they test the limits of artistic material and audience perception.

Tino Sehgal and participants of These Associations at Tate Modern Turbine Hall

Tino Seghal, These Associations, 2012

Tino Seghal, These Associations, 2012

Laure Prouvost is nominated for her Tate and Grizedale Arts commission Wantee, and her two-part installation for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women Farfromwords.
Prouvost’s unique approach to filmmaking, often situated within atmospheric installations, employs strong story telling, quick cuts, montage and deliberate misuse of language to create surprising and unpredictable work.

Laure Prouvost, installation at Whitechapel Gallery, 2013

Laure Prouvost, Wantee, 2013

Laure Prouvost, Wantee, 2013