Poor Air Quality on Northeast Coast
According to Boston’s Business Journal, The EPA has predicted unhealthy air quality for many coastal beaches in the Northeast region this weekend. Children and adults with respiratory conditions are especially advised to avoid strenuous activities as elevated ozone levels can lead to breathing problems. Though it’s going to be this year’s first hot weekend since […]
KICK OFF SUMMER IN NEW YORK WITH TWO SURF EVENTS
New Yorkers, kick off your summer with two fun summer events. This weekend in Montauk, head to Sole East for this fundraiser BBQ, catered by the Backyard Restaurant, with complimentary beer, courtesy of Brooklyn Brewery.  Proceeds from ticket sales benefit Waves For Water’s Hurricane Sandy Relief Initiative. After sundown, a special outdoor screening of surf […]
ARCHI/MAPS
One of my favorite websites to browse is ARCHI/MAPS, which pulls photographs of buildings, floorplans, other architectural renderings, and maps from various historical archives and posts them to the web. You can find Online Casino all manner of buildings, from medieval to modern, at the site, which also ranges across continents. Get lost there for […]
Reto Pulfer: Zustandseffekte
Check out this mysterious, oceanic-ish installation at Swiss Institute in SoHo; it’s on view until June 23 and not to be missed. From SI: The enigmatic body of work by Swiss artist Reto Pulfer (b. 1981, lives in Berlin) might be said to occur at the intersection of architectural space and performance. In his first solo-exhibition in […]
The First Book on Surfing
In 1914 photographer and surfer A.R. Gurrey self-published what is now believed to be the first book devoted solely to surfing, The Surf Riders of Hawaii. Combining his own photos and prose alongside poetry from Lord Byron, Gurrey explored the sensorial adventure of the sport. Most of the photos were shot from the water while riding […]
Urban Air
Los Angeles artist Stephen Glassman has plans for the steel frames that hoist billboards above his concrete city. He wants to transform them into suspended bamboo gardens, transforming the scenery of thousands of commuters every day. His project, that we can often lose sight of. To create the garden billboards, Glassman and his crew alter […]
Painter Painter
The Walker Art Center, one of the preeminent contemporary art museums in the United States, has a show on view now (until October 27) about new developments in contemporary painting. The exhibition, “Painter Painter,” presents the work of fifteen artists from the US and Europe. Here’s a brief description: The exhibition posits abstract painting today […]
THE WHITNEY: NEW IDENTITY
The Whitney, which is opening their new space near the Highline in 2015, has just unveiled their new graphic identity and it’s a fun one! Created by the design studio Experimental Jet Set, the graphic relies on what the museum describes as a “responsive W” that process here on their website; it’s a fascinating read). […]
Stranger Than Paradise
Adam Sachs’s recent article in T Magazine on Marin County, CA, “the most beautiful, bucolic, privileged, liberal, hippie-dippie place on the earth,” is worth a read. An excerpt: On the way around a dock we pass a line of big happy seals, bellies up in the sun. Some of the houseboats around here are repurposed […]
Art in Protest
In Portugal, artists and protestors have been using a wide variety of political and artistic signage and design to draw attention to the escalating taxes and austerity measures in their country. Inspired by the May ’68 Paris protests, their call to action is, “It’s the people who call the shots.” The intriguing thing about this […]
Zilia S?nchez at Artists Space
Artists Space‘s elegant retrospective of the too-little-known Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez is mesmerizing. From AS: Her paintings have regularly taken on a modular character, comprised of two or more abutting parts. This seriality has become a cornerstone of Sánchezâ??s work: she continues to rework and add to paintings begun as early as the 1970s, considering each […]
Surf Culture in Japan
Given its geography, Japan seems a natural fit for surfing culture. But what’s interesting is the way in which it’s started to take hold again recently, which is to say they’ve put an emphasis on the culture as much as, if not more than the surfing. the beach, rather than inside the city. It’s as […]
New Directions Poetry Pamphlets
The esteemed literary publisher New Directions has revived its series of poetry pamphlets, and the first four contributions look stellar: Eliot Weinberger, Lydia Davis, Susan Howe, and others are involved. A bit more on the series: New Directions is happy to announce the publication of a new series of Poetry Pamphlets, a reincarnated version of the […]
The Relocation of Newtok Residents
Yesterday the Guardian published its first installment of a report on Newtok, Alaska, where an entire village is in the long process of relocating as their home becomes uninhabitable due to the affects of climate change. A report by the US Army Corps of Engineers predicted the highest point in the village will be underwater by 2017. […]
WAVES FOR WATER: SIX MONTHS AFTER SANDY
Former pro-surfer Jon Rose and the team from Waves for Water (along with the many, many volunteers from New York) have managed to make some great progress over the past six months. Fundraisers have been held. Houses have been dug out. Supplies and other materials have been handed out. Here is a little video […]
Myoung Ho Lee’s Treescapes
It’s always a thrill when a photographer develops a fresh approach to the classic landscape. The New York Times Style Magazine featured work from South Korean artist Myoung Ho Lee, whose collection of trees against white canvas are as gorgeous as they are understated. According to the article, Lee wanted to rid the final shots […]
Finding Vivian Maier
In recent years the photography world has fallen head-over-heels in love with a previously unknown street photographer named Vivian Maier. She lived her life as a nanny in Chicago, raising a family three children and taking photographs all the while. Thousands of negatives ended up in a storage-unit auction late in the last decade, and […]
The World in the Curl
This summer Crown/Random House is publishing The World in the Curl a new book co-authored by Peter Westwick and Peter Neushul about the history of surfing. According to the press release: The thinking-person’s guide to surfing and the world it has created. Among the most popular courses at the University of California at Santa Barbara is […]
Re-imagining the Donnell Library
Ever since the Donnell Library branch closed in 2008, the neighborhood surrounding West 53rd street has missed its beloved reading room. Today the New York Public Library will officially unveil the The Donnell Library Center’s replacement, a center redesigned to fit at the base of a high-rise hotel. Architect Enrique Norten and his firm TEN Arquitectos imagined […]
MoMa PS1 RAIN ROOM: Opening This Saturday
The rain room is coming! Apparently this interactive installation- a constantly raining room which reacts to viewers within the space by magically shielding them from wet drops – was a hit in London. I can’t wait to see it in New York. Opens May 12th and runs through July 28th. Read more below and here […]
Unlocking Malibu’s Beaches
Malibu hosts some of the most beautiful beaches in this country, and apparently many of the residents in the area have been putting up fake signs for years, discouraging the public from accessing them. USA Today reports that despite recent legislation put into action to protect the rights of the public to use the beaches, […]
Making Cents
Musician and writer Damon Krukowski, of the bands Galaxie 500 and Damon & Naomi, breaks down the meager royalties currently being paid out to bands by streaming services and explains what the music business’ headlong quest for capital means for artists today. Consider Pandora and Spotify, the streaming music services that are becoming ever more […]
Matt Paweski, Tulip Lamp
Matt Paweski, Tulip Lamp, 2013, steel, acrylic, enamel, copper rivets, electrical components, 27 x 7 x 2″. On view at Atelier de Troupe , 3418 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90039.
