10.31.2011

Halloween and our art-icon-superhero freaks.



(Thank you, Patrick, for most of the images. What would we all do without you?)

10.29.2011

minimal excess








Just the right amount of muchness.

Sophie Toulousse and Nicholas Hoffman's flat, via Ensuite.

10.24.2011

bark


I've been chiseling the bark off tree stumps for two days,
which is incredibly satisfying. So is this bowl.


Gabriella Crespi, 1970s

Julia Walters







wooden wearables


10.14.2011



Discovered this bit of Albert Lamorisse's film Crin Blanc while getting this post together. Beautiful.


UPDATE: watch the full movie here. Thank you, Laetitia!

10.11.2011

Andrey Chezhin

Homage to Salvador Dali




Homage to Matisse




Homage to Moholy-Nagy


Homage to Meret Oppenheim



here

10.10.2011

spindle-legged

Vintage Traccia table by Meret Oppenheim

designed 1939


A Vision Of The Mermaids
Gerard Manley Hopkins


I had a dream just before I woke up this morning about the cover
of a book called Five Columns (or something?) by Gerard Manely Hopkins,
a poet I've never read. It was one of those dreams that feels like a clue,
or a hint, or a gentle provocation, and it's had me doing research all morning.
I can't find anything in his work about five columns, though I did
discover he was an artist as well as a poet, which is something.

10.08.2011

bell tolling


MARGARET HOWELL WOMENS SS12 CATWALK SHOW from Margaret Howell on Vimeo.


Margaret Howell's clothes always make me think of the Spanish girl
that Ernest Hemingway's character loves in For Whom the Bell Tolls:
simple, calm, and emotionally hearty, but supple.
Resolutely outside of the pack. Hiding in plain sight.

10.07.2011

women


wonky, finger-pointing, scheming, beaked, treacherous


Sten Lykke Madsen for Bing and Grondahl
1970s

here

Cristina Iglesias



Revisiting her work after discovering some renderings
I did for a sci-fi play I prop-designed back in the old days.
I'm happy to re-meet her.
I guess that no matter how much time passes,
you always love best the things you loved first.

10.06.2011

Jesse Morgan Barnett

taking pictures with thomas ruff


taking pictures with thomas struth





and, for something completely different, here

10.05.2011

Tadashi Ito






previously here

Aspen Mays




Moody moons and the holes of lost stars:
prints from forgotten astronomical negatives and ephemera
from University of Chile's Astronomical Observatory, at
Golden.

10.04.2011

100 Years


Will Barnet gets his first museum retrospective, here


His students included Cy Twombly, Tom Wesselmann and Eva Hesse. He once told Willem de Kooning to consider the structure and organization of his paintings. “It was the only the time he was ever challenged by anybody,” Barnet remembers.

from WSJ

10.03.2011

screen

My grandparents collected Asian art and artifacts -- mother-of-pearl inlaid chairs; a very heavy, gorgeous jade horse that is now my mother's prized possession that we "kids" love to move around the house irreverently, making her very nervous. (Oh God... Where's the Jade Horse!!! It's been taken!!)

My grandparents also had a beautiful Chinese screen much like this one, above, which I ogled the other day in the booth of local vintage maven,
Achlee Wise. This screen, unlike my grandparents' (which is covered with a scene of a dragon parade in front of a temple), is so spare and quiet. Just perfect. I think I love best that the water is a stony gray, unmoving, though it's the fluid thing. It's a wonderful comfounding of expectations.