Ed Ruscha at NYPL, March 6
Ed Ruscha’s work has profoundly influenced countless modern artists, but his artist books – such as Twentysix Gasoline Stations, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles, and A Few Palm Trees – offer a unique opportunity to trace that influence directly to the near and far corners of the modern [...]
Michael Gaillard (Harmony Artist-In-Residence)
Glimpses of Costa Rica, as seen through the lens of my 8×10 camera (please click on a thumbnail to load the slideshow)…
Herbie Fletcher at The Hole
Venerable downtown art gallery The Hole is playing host to six new works from surf legend turned artist, Herbie Fletcher. Titled “Wrecktangles,” the pieces are large-scale constructions made from actual surfboards that were destroyed in the waves. Cut-up, broken and warped by crashes, the pieces come together and form a whole that reveals not just [...]
Making Room: New Models for Housing New Yorkers
Anyone living in a city for more than a few weeks knows that solving the perfect apartment setup is an ongoing quest rather than an attainable solution. The Museum of the City of New York ((MCNY) has collaborated with the Citizens Housing & Planning Council for their latest exhibit, Making Room: New Models for Housing New Yorkers. [...]
Gravity and Grace
Don’t miss the first solo exhibition in a New York museum by the globally renowned contemporary artist El Anatsui. This show features over 30 works in metal and wood that transform appropriated objects into site-specific sculptures. Anatsui converts found materials into a new type of media that lies between sculpture and painting, combining aesthetic traditions [...]
Documentaries in the Wake of Sandy
From the NYT: But while the footage that Mr. O’Keefe and others collected during Sandy and its aftermath will probably be making its way into movies for years, festival directors from Austin to Toronto, from TriBeCa to San Francisco are already getting completed Sandy films, less than three months after the fact. Advances like digital [...]
Michael Gaillard (Harmony Artist-In-Residence)
Here are some images from the rodeo/fiesta in the town of Nosara, a few kilometers inland from Playa Guiones where the hotel is located. This is a five-night event, and the entire local population, children and adults alike, Ticos (locals), ex-pats, and tourists, all look forward to the event with great anticipation. I decided to [...]
East Coast Surf-Inspired Brands
The temperatures have turned frigid here on the East coast and that means a lot of people (including me) are planning their winter getaways. Here are a few East Coast brands, recommended via Foam Magazine, to help get you inspired. I will say that my Salt bag is my favorite for overnight trips and that [...]
Warhol’s San Diego Surf at MoMA
As previously reported on the Harmony Blog, MoMA is screening Warhol’s San Diego Surf…this week! From January 23–28, 2013. Andy Warhol’s San Diego Surf concerns an unhappily married couple (Taylor Mead and Viva), new parents who rent their beach house to a group of surfers. Filmed with two 16mm cameras by Warhol and Paul Morrissey in May 1968, this [...]
Manhattan Portraits
The newest issue (No. 14) of the magazine Acne Paper is a tribute to creative culture throughout Manhattan’s recent history, with nostalgic black and white portraits of the borough’s streets, and the many now-famous writers, painters, performers, and artists of all types who have filled them and been inspired by them. Of course, the magazine [...]
Michael Gaillard
The Harmony Hotel’s first Artist in Residence talks with the Harmony Blog about his work past and present. Artist Michael Gaillard is grappling with too many names. For over a decade now, he has produced photographs of Nantucket landscapes as “Michael Gaillard,” while making a separate, more conceptually driven body of work under his New [...]
The Oracle Club
While looking for different ways to establish a small work space outside of the home, a place to be productive but not necessarily glued to a chair and a screen, I came across an interesting option. Rather than having to rent a raw space and fill it with what you need to be inspired, The [...]
Hey, Hot Shot! 2012 Showcase
Mark your calendars for the opening of Hey, Hot Shot! 2012 Exhibition at Jen Bekman gallery on January 11th, from 6 to 8. Since the international photo contest began in 2005, 150 photographers from all over the world have received recognition, exposure and support. Renown for reviewing and accepting work from artists at all stages of their careers, [...]
Notes on Water by Aritst Leanne Shapton
From Leanne Shapton’s website: As a teenager, Leanne Shapton trained for the Olympic swimming trials; now an artist, she is still drawn inexorably to swimming, in pools and on beaches across the world. What do you with an all-absorbing activity once it’s past its relevance, and yet you can’t quite give it up? Is it possible [...]
Banshidhar Medeiros: “Soul Surfer”
This week the New York Times devotes its “Character Study” column to an intriguing character indeed: Now that beach weather has finally rolled round, Banshidhar Medeiros, 59, a factory worker from Queens and a lifelong surfer, can be found paddling out at sunrise on almost any day the surf is up. “There are a lot less [...]
The Quay Brothers at MoMA
With its dim lighting, birch trees, dark theaters and grey walls, the retrospective of the Quay Brothers certainly feels like a quiet walk through their minds than a gallery show. Which is to say, it is one of the most engaging experiences you can have at the Museum of Modern Art at the moment. And [...]
Diana Vreeland: “Oh To Be a Surfer!”
During an interview, famed cold water swimmer Lynne Cox once said that there are two types of people in the world: water people and land people. Water people, she argued, drew inspiration and energy from interactions with (what else) water. Land people just didn’t get it. As a water person myself, I’m always excited when [...]
Film Biz Recycling
Ever wonder what happens to a set after shooting wraps? Non-Profit organization Film Biz Recycling is doing the good work by focusing their efforts to divert set materials to local charities and operating a prop-shop and creative reuse center in Gowanus, Brooklyn.(An invaluable source for small budget projects, they have even let us rent props [...]
The Museum in the Elevator
One of New York’s newest institutions is not housed in an grand space envisioned by teams of architects and designers. It’s in a cramped Tribeca elevator, easily overlooked by unassuming passersby. Not yet a year old, the plainly titled Museum (mmuseumm.com) was opened in June by the collective filmmaking trio behind Red Bucket Films. Within [...]
Jill Sigman’s Hut Project
Over the summer I was fortunate enough to meet multimedia artist Jill Sigman, just as her exhibition at Arts@Renaissance was closing. She was in the process of dismantling the seventh part of her Hut Project, an ongoing series of site-based activities that explore ideas about sustainability, home, responsibility and questions what actually becomes of the [...]
The Good Farmer
Fashion designer turned farmer, Christopher Totman, returned to his family farm in Western Massachusetts and then created a farm-to-table program for The Harmony Hotel. It was 2008, and Christopher Totman was asking himself the harder questions. “Where are you the happiest?” And: “Why is it so difficult to do what makes you the happiest?” At [...]
Charles Simic on “memory traps”
The poet Charles Simic has written a short essay on “memory traps”–places that have vanished but which linger in the mind, and which anyone who has lived in a city for a long time will recognize: It doesn’t take much. A deserted street at dusk, with the summer sunlight lingering on the upper floors of [...]
Support Nosara’s New Recycling Center
Nosara’s new Recycling Center got off to a good start in summer 2012. Now the students hope to return to Costa Rica to complete it. Architect Tobias Holler explains how you can help on their new Kickstarter campaign: This past summer my absolute favorite building project, the Nosara Recycling and Education Center, made a huge [...]
WAX Surf Film Sandy Benefit
Please join us for an evening of surf films for hurricane relief! Hosted by Mikey DeTemple and Jon Rose All proceeds will go to Waves for Water INFO Monday, November 26, 7:30pm Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY Tickets: nysurfstories.eventbrite.com NEW YORK SURF STORIES Produced by SMASH, WAX Magazine, NYC Surfrider Foundation [...]
