Romaine Brooks: Self-Portrait, 1923 (Oil on canvas, 46 1/4 x 26 7/8 inches) – on view in Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, at the Tacoma Art Museum through June 10th.Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Image of the Day
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Romaine Brooks: Self-Portrait, 1923 (Oil on canvas, 46 1/4 x 26 7/8 inches) – on view in Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, at the Tacoma Art Museum through June 10th.
Romaine Brooks: Self-Portrait, 1923 (Oil on canvas, 46 1/4 x 26 7/8 inches) – on view in Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, at the Tacoma Art Museum through June 10th.
Art21
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Trailer for the new season of Art in the Twenty-First Century on PBS. Watch it online or check your local listings.
(via Unbeige)
Trailer for the new season of Art in the Twenty-First Century on PBS. Watch it online or check your local listings.
(via Unbeige)
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Well Could You Go Into a Few of the Sordid Details?
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Trailer for Damsels in Distress – the first movie by Whit Stillman since The Last Days of Disco. I don't mind admitting that I took Metropolitan (Stillman's first film), as some kind of twisted instruction manual when it came out. I was a freshman in college.
Metropolitan (1990)
If you happen to be in London right now, Damsels in Distress is playing at Aubin & Wills Cinema. Everyone else can read this article on Whit Stillman in the New York Times Magazine and wait patiently.
Trailer for Damsels in Distress – the first movie by Whit Stillman since The Last Days of Disco. I don't mind admitting that I took Metropolitan (Stillman's first film), as some kind of twisted instruction manual when it came out. I was a freshman in college.
Metropolitan (1990)
If you happen to be in London right now, Damsels in Distress is playing at Aubin & Wills Cinema. Everyone else can read this article on Whit Stillman in the New York Times Magazine and wait patiently.
Image of the Day
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Kelli Connell: Convertible Kiss, 2002/2011 (Archival inkjet collage, 5.5 x 7 inches, edition of 15, from the collection of John Jenkins and Stephen Lyons). On view at Greg Kucera Gallery through June 2 as a part of Under the Rainbow, a four-gallerist show in support of the Tacoma Art Museum's current exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture.
Kelli Connell: Convertible Kiss, 2002/2011 (Archival inkjet collage, 5.5 x 7 inches, edition of 15, from the collection of John Jenkins and Stephen Lyons). On view at Greg Kucera Gallery through June 2 as a part of Under the Rainbow, a four-gallerist show in support of the Tacoma Art Museum's current exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture.Monday, April 16, 2012
Like a Shadow
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Blouse "Shadow" (live version at le Consortium, Dijon). The song was released last year as a 7" on Sub Pop and much more is available from Captured Tracks.
Blouse "Shadow" (live version at le Consortium, Dijon). The song was released last year as a 7" on Sub Pop and much more is available from Captured Tracks.
Friday, April 13, 2012
All the Colors
Image of the Day
Late pass: I just came across the work of a photographer I didn't know, Duane Michals. No time for a retrospective but I recommend a Google image search... really amazing work.
Why Can't You
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Image of the Day
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Damian Stamer, Untitled, 2012
(60 x 84 in., oil and graphite on canvas)
Up through May 19 as part of the North Carolina native's
solo show, Southern Comfort, at Freight + Volume, NYC.
(60 x 84 in., oil and graphite on canvas)
Up through May 19 as part of the North Carolina native's
solo show, Southern Comfort, at Freight + Volume, NYC.
I Had A Dream
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Crystal Dorval aka White Poppy "I Had a Dream" from I Had a Dream (2012, Not Not Fun – cassette only, edition of 125)
(via GvB)
Crystal Dorval aka White Poppy "I Had a Dream" from I Had a Dream (2012, Not Not Fun – cassette only, edition of 125)
(via GvB)
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
The Little Mermaid
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The Hans Christian Andersen story was my immediate thought on seeing this. Okay, so I don't find this piece incredibly original or groundbreaking, but I enjoyed my response nonetheless. I had an adaptation of the story as a book on tape as a kid, and I always really loved it. For some reason I was obsessed with the idea of being willing to go through so much physical pain for love.
From the Serpentine:
Hans-Peter Feldman, Golden Shoes with Pins, 2011. On view through June 5 at
Serpentine Gallery, as part of Feldman's first public solo exhibition in London.
Serpentine Gallery, as part of Feldman's first public solo exhibition in London.
The Hans Christian Andersen story was my immediate thought on seeing this. Okay, so I don't find this piece incredibly original or groundbreaking, but I enjoyed my response nonetheless. I had an adaptation of the story as a book on tape as a kid, and I always really loved it. For some reason I was obsessed with the idea of being willing to go through so much physical pain for love.
From the Serpentine:
Hans-Peter Feldmann (born 1941, Dusseldorf) rose to prominence in the early 1970s, earning worldwide acclaim for his expansive and encyclopaedic photographic series. Often presented in the form of books, posters, postcards and installations, these collections link Feldmann's life-long fascination with collecting elements of visual culture. . . .
Feldmann's appetite for amassing cultural artifacts is demonstrated in a new work presented for the first time at the Serpentine. The artist purchased a number of ladies' handbags along with their entire contents, filling museological vitrines with credit cards, mobile telephones and address books, making passing fashions and lifestyle choices the object of display and public discussion.
Image of the Day
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Dug the color, texture, and feeling of this photo by Pari Dukovic from a recent New York magazine slideshow.
Dug the color, texture, and feeling of this photo by Pari Dukovic from a recent New York magazine slideshow.
If You Want To Tell Me Something
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Dum Dum Girls "Coming Down" (edit) from Only In Dreams (2011, Sub Pop). Yeah I already posted it, but I hadn't seen the video and I cannot seem to get sick of this song. So there you have it.
Dum Dum Girls "Coming Down" (edit) from Only In Dreams (2011, Sub Pop). Yeah I already posted it, but I hadn't seen the video and I cannot seem to get sick of this song. So there you have it.
Photo by Lauren Dukoff
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Need vs. Want
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Lizzie Garrett Mettler, Tomboy Style: Beyond the Boundaries of Fashion (Rizzoli). Inspiration for days.
Documentary filmmaker Osa Johnson
Stylist Marina Muñoz
Ali McGraw
Nicki Bluhm
Susan Ford, washing her car outside the White House.
Need(ed).
TOMBOY style
Lizzie Garrett Mettler, Tomboy Style: Beyond the Boundaries of Fashion (Rizzoli). Inspiration for days.
Documentary filmmaker Osa Johnson
Stylist Marina Muñoz
Ali McGraw
Nicki Bluhm
Susan Ford, washing her car outside the White House.Need(ed).
Tomboy Style: Beyond the Boundaries of Fashion from pier pictures on Vimeo.
rizzoliusa.comTOMBOY style
How-To
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Meant to post this earlier, but now that the April issue has arrived I better hurry it up. I am obsessed with the styling for this story. It shouldn't all work together so seamlessly but it does; a perfect high-low mix. Jane How may just be my kindred spirit.
Karmen Pedaru shot by Mario Sorrenti
with styling by Jane How,
for the March 2012 issue of Vogue Paris.
Meant to post this earlier, but now that the April issue has arrived I better hurry it up. I am obsessed with the styling for this story. It shouldn't all work together so seamlessly but it does; a perfect high-low mix. Jane How may just be my kindred spirit.
Karmen Pedaru shot by Mario Sorrenti with styling by Jane How,
for the March 2012 issue of Vogue Paris.
Image of the Day
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Cover of the catalog for the groundbreaking exhibition opening at the Met a month from today, Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations. If you missed Judith Thurman's article "Radical Chic: Clothes on the Cutting Edge" in the New Yorker a few weeks back, I highly recommend it checking it out.
Info on the book at Yale Press.
Cover of the catalog for the groundbreaking exhibition opening at the Met a month from today, Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations. If you missed Judith Thurman's article "Radical Chic: Clothes on the Cutting Edge" in the New Yorker a few weeks back, I highly recommend it checking it out.Schiaparelli was thirty-seven and Prada was thirty-nine when they delivered their first collections. But experience of the real world, which was a man’s world for both of them, made them intolerant of female passivity and desperation. They don’t really care what makes a woman desirable to men. Their work asks you to consider what makes a woman desirable to herself.Visit newyorker.com for the whole article.
Info on the book at Yale Press.
Monday, April 9, 2012
First in Flight
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Speaking of Cass Bird: recently behind the lens for Maiyet's S/S 2012 campaign, featuring Daria Werbowy and shot at Floyd Bennett Field. Love the light.
Maiyet.com
Speaking of Cass Bird: recently behind the lens for Maiyet's S/S 2012 campaign, featuring Daria Werbowy and shot at Floyd Bennett Field. Love the light.
Maiyet SS12 | Daria Werbowy by Cass Bird from M A I Y E T on Vimeo. Music by Feist.
Maiyet.com
Ten Decisions Shape Your Life
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The Strokes, "I'll Try Anything Once" (demo) (Rough Trade, 2006).
(I FINALLY watched Somewhere this weekend - probably the last person on the planet to have done so, but - it was so subtle and poignant and lovely...Sofia Coppola tells a story in images like nobody's business. Anyway. I'm not really a Strokes fan, but this song was perfect for the movie.)
(photo: Avon, Idaho, March 2012)
The Strokes, "I'll Try Anything Once" (demo) (Rough Trade, 2006).
(I FINALLY watched Somewhere this weekend - probably the last person on the planet to have done so, but - it was so subtle and poignant and lovely...Sofia Coppola tells a story in images like nobody's business. Anyway. I'm not really a Strokes fan, but this song was perfect for the movie.)
(photo: Avon, Idaho, March 2012)
Image of the Day
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One of my most favorite of the many classic photographs by Arthur Tress, who I first learned of from a great show at Clampart back in 2003 or so. A new show at the De Young Museum, Arthur Tress: San Francisco 1964, exhibits seventy of his early photographs. Click here for a slideshow and short review by Ted Loos at the New York Times.
One of my most favorite of the many classic photographs by Arthur Tress, who I first learned of from a great show at Clampart back in 2003 or so. A new show at the De Young Museum, Arthur Tress: San Francisco 1964, exhibits seventy of his early photographs. Click here for a slideshow and short review by Ted Loos at the New York Times.
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