Art Design Publicity

This section lists newly added articles focused on art, design and publicity— and those in our archive.


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PRESS RELEASE: Art video demo Worlds collide (2017-25) by R. J. Preece with...

European-made artwork finalized in parallel to ongoing Nazi history / arts / zoning battle in CT, USA and 1930s research; most importantly, a call for historical justice for Emily Hall Tremaine,...

Ulrich von Genainth, Nazi PR guru in America

Spotlight: "… Gienanth, Ulrich von, German cultural attaché to the United States who oversaw all print propaganda for the Nazis in the United States. He worked in conjunction with I.G. Farben’s...

Manfred von Killinger, German Consul to San Francisco, 1937-38: 116 Nazi...

Former assassin and later "Butcher of Bucharest", Von Killinger was the German Consul to San Francisco in 1937-38. During his short tenure, how much chaos did he cause? If / when the US Naval...

"Nazi film queen" Leni Riefenstahl’s shocking tour of America (1938-39)

Was Leni’s two-month trip to the U. S. the worst press junket of the 20th century? Perhaps. In any event, it certainly makes the shortlist. Her tour starred a pack of pro-Nazi American charlatans...

Hidden US history: Nazi duke tour across America, darling of the US social...

This is part of shocking US history, buried after World War II, that a number of American elites don’t want coming forward. A number of German corporations have supported and provided access to...

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Support the unearthing of America’s Nazi battle involving the social / cultural set and business. Your donation will support investigative journalism and help bring forth the truth, securing...

Burton Tremaine: Navigating around crazy, diversified, colliding pro-Nazi...

Like Emily Hall Tremaine’s first and second husbands, Max von Romberg and Adolph B. Spreckels, Jr., her third husband Burton Tremaine, that she married in 1945, also was interfacing to some extent...

Emily Hall Tremaine & pals vs. the British Nazi (1937-38)

In the thick of the anti-Nazi / Nazi fight in California, the pal of Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Baroness Emily von Romberg), Philip Chancellor, was the victim of an extortion attempt by...

Emily Hall Tremaine - diamond skull publicity (1940)

Almost 70 years before Damien Hirst’s publicity-driving diamond skull, arts figure Emily Hall Tremaine did the same, but became the diamond skull herself, wearing in today’s value, 14.5-220 million...

Emily Hall Tremaine fights back: Nazis in California (1933-45) (book...

What do the following famous artworks, top in their respective museums, have in common— Jasper Johns’s "Three (American) flags" (1958), at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; Warhol’s...

Emily Hall Tremaine - crazy Nazi / anti-Nazi media coverage (1940)

1930s California society publicity queen Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Spreckels) sued her husband for divorce just a year after marriage, occupying American newspapers for months with...

Emily Hall Tremaine - publicity outputs, Emily-style (1939)

The "original It Girl" Emily Hall Tremaine (then Von Romberg) married Adolph B. Spreckels, Jr. in August 1939. See the full-on reporting of the young publicity queen across the United States and...

Philip Johnson: "Sex and Nazis can do quite well" - FOCUS

FBI report, media coverage and more; a creepy art, design and Nazi publicity compilation. "Sex and Nazis can do quite well" - Philip Johnson in Vanity Fair, (June 1993). Oh really? INTRODUCTION:...

Rachel Maddow’s "PREQUEL: An American Fight Against Fascism" & Emily Hall...

Top left: After a year-long second marriage, Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Spreckels) sued for divorce (7 Sept 1940; New York Daily News. Top right: Three months later, Adolph B. Spreckels...

Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews foiled Nazi plots against Hollywood and...

Top left: After a year-long second marriage, Emily Hall Tremaine (previously) Spreckels sues for divorce (7 Sept 1940; New York Daily News. Top right: Three months later, Adolph B. Spreckels...

Rachel Maddow’s "Ultra" (2022) & Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Von...

Top left: After a year-long second marriage, Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Spreckels) sues for divorce (7 Sept 1940; New York Daily News. Top right: Three months later, Adolph B. Spreckels...

“I’m returning to duty. The former gay-rights movement has been hijacked by...

— Jeff Cleghorn, veteran gay rights advocate > See Cleghorn’s fiery 4-minute testimony in the Georgia state senate on February 13, 2024. This was reported on extensively across the US and Canada...

Sensation at Royal Academy of Arts, London (1997) press releases, list of...

Section A. Personal context; B. a 1940 predecessor: lady with diamonds, shocking disclosure, and sensational media coverage nationwide; C. Sensation exhibition press releases; D. exhibition...

Andy Warhol. Marilyn diptych, (1962) (w/ Emily Hall Tremaine and 1940 Nazi /...

Meet the other lady behind the diptych who also experienced a shocking, celebrity-style implosion, but survived it, initially. Her name is Emily; she advised Warhol pair the two paintings like a...

Andy Warhol. A boy for Meg (1962) in publications, exhibitions

Meet the other lady behind the painting. Her name is Emily. Plus a list of exhibitions and selected publications regarding A boy for Meg. Andy Warhol A boy for Meg, (1962) Oil on canvas 72 x...

Jasper Johns. Three flags (1958) in publications, exhibitions

Meet the lady behind the painting. Her name is Emily. Plus a list of exhibitions and selected publications regarding Three flags. Jasper Johns Three flags, (1958) Encaustic on canvas 30 7/8 x...

Emily Hall Tremaine - Apéritif magazine (1934-36) - issues, contents, media...

This start-up magazine based in Santa Barbara, headed by Emily Hall Tremaine (previously von Romberg) featured provocative content and produced national media coverage in just a two-year run. Why...

Emily Hall Tremaine’s 1930s: In Nazi danger, madness, decadence and publicity

This micro-site and webpage are packed with a lot of new information clarifying Emily’s work and life. Left: Wire service photo of Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Spreckels) wearing in today’s...

Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Spreckels) vs. Adolph B. Spreckels, initial...

In 1940, Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Spreckels) courageously stood up and publicly blasted her second husband after a turbulent year-long marriage: "no" to his alleged spousal violence and "no"...

Piet Mondrian. Victory boogie woogie (1942-44) in publications, exhibitions

Meet the "mother" of the painting. Her name is Emily. Plus a list of exhibitions and selected publications regarding Mondrian’s Victory Boogie Woogie. Piet Mondrian Victory boogie woogie,...

New discoveries: Emily Hall Tremaine (previously von Romberg), Max von...

Living in California in the crazy and increasingly dangerous 1930s towards WWII, the two socialites accumulated a significant amount of media coverage, some with eye-popping controversy....

Nazi scandal: Emily Hall Tremaine (previously Spreckels), Adolph B....

Living in California in the crazy and increasingly dangerous late 1930s into the WWII period, the two socialites collided with anti-Nazi vs. alleged pro-Nazi thinking, extreme spousal violence...

Sleepwalker media coverage: The remixes (2014)

Media coverage you can dance to: featuring Marcus Bering, ’music-journalist’ Stephen Mallinder, and Kim Min Su. Marcus Bering. Cropped still from "Sleepwalker sculpture media coverage overload vs....

Sleepwalker media coverage, lost in automated translation vs. Corruption...

Artists Marcus Bering and Kim Min Su examined various foreign language titles and quotes from the media coverage. They present a selection of their findings with automated translations— and...

Sleepwalker media coverage vs. Lava Land (2014) (automated music)

Artist Marcus Bering mashes up the international media coverage compilation of Tony Matelli’s Sleepwalker sculpture at Wellesley College, adding some foreign language quotes and Google...

Sleepwalker sculpture media coverage overload vs. Theme from Wrangler (2014)...

Artist Marcus Bering experiences mental overload while reviewing the 5000+ Sleepwalker media coverage compilation. Here’s the visual result. Click to see the Tony Matelli Sleepwalker media coverage...

Sleepwalker media coverage vs. Harder (2014) (automated music)

Here, we spotlight key quotes and headlines prompted by Tony Matelli’s Sleepwalker exhibited at Wellesley College earlier this year. These are set to Harder by Wrangler, music-journalist Stephen...

Sleepwalker at Wellesley: 5000+ articles in 96+ countries

The following is an international media/Internet coverage compilation concerning Tony Matelli’s discussion-generating Sleepwalker sculpture installed at Wellesley College. (The 2021 re-release...

Tony Matelli’s Sleepwalker at Wellesley College: special focus (2014)

This is a special focus on the media coverage of Tony Matelli’s Sleepwalker and the international media frenzy resulting in over 5000+ articles, many in top media, and around 800 TV broadcasts in...

Tracey Emin: Artist over— and in— the broadsheets (2001)

“... the tent and the artist offer great copy generated by the artwork’s contained textual focal points— the artwork’s title, facilitation of a media-genic headline, the description the artwork...

Painting toward architecture press release (1948)

The following is a copy of the original press release prepared by the Miller Company Collection of Abstract Art. This show travelled to at least 28 venues across the US and generated significant...

SHOCKER: Hitler’s aristocrats (2023), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and...

The investigation has only just... begun. (Left) Georg von Schnitzler, a 1932 MoMA Modern architecture show patron (co-curated by Philip Johnson) and later convicted of Nazi war crimes in the I. G....