Monday, January 31, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
La Princesse
"It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house, with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time...."
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Journey of a Man's Wardrobe....
Louis Vuitton's Journey of a Man's Wardrobe, shot by The Selby, takes us through some masculine interiors that aren't as cavelike as most.....
New York - Waris Ahluwalia's studio
Shanghai- home of artist Les Suen
London- White Cube Gallery
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
MOMA's AB EX NEW YORK
Went to the Museum of Modern Art today to check out their blockbuster Abstract Expressionist Exhibition.....
Wow.
(detail) Robert Motherwell, Elegy to the Spanish Republic, 108, 1965-67
While, on the surface, safe and productive post-WWII America looked like this:
...the generation's artists struggled with the dark collective interior of a nation now stepping into the spotlight as a world superpower while negotiating the harrowing guilt of being the only country to drop the nuclear bomb. Their portait of the American psyche looked like more like this:
If you find yourself in New York before the exhibit closes on April 25th, it is well worth a look.
Wow.
(detail) Robert Motherwell, Elegy to the Spanish Republic, 108, 1965-67
While, on the surface, safe and productive post-WWII America looked like this:
...the generation's artists struggled with the dark collective interior of a nation now stepping into the spotlight as a world superpower while negotiating the harrowing guilt of being the only country to drop the nuclear bomb. Their portait of the American psyche looked like more like this:
If you find yourself in New York before the exhibit closes on April 25th, it is well worth a look.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
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