Halloween and our art-icon-superhero freaks.

here

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

minimal excess

Just the right amount of muchness.

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

elemental

chicken feed

Mel Bochner, Money

more on the subject, here

bark

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

Gabriella Crespi, 1970s

here

Julia Walters

wooden wearables

here

French Judo Master

Luisa Chillida Bergareche

here

via H/G

fall

Chilly at last in the Lone Star State.

1 and 2

Robert Morris, on paper

drawings, here

Jozan Yamada IV

here

(gracias, amigo)

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!

B/W

A pure, quiet antidote to art-rubble.

all here, again

Nicole Cherubini

more rubble-ish convections

here

Andrey Chezhin

Homage to Salvador Dali

Homage to Matisse

Homage to Moholy-Nagy

Homage to Meret Oppenheim

here

spindle-legged

Vintage Traccia table by Meret Oppenheim

designed 1939

here

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.

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.

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.

Jesse Morgan Barnett

taking pictures with thomas ruff


taking pictures with thomas struth

here

and, for something completely different, here

Tadashi Ito

here

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.

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

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.