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 […]
Winter Surfing With Mikey DeTemple
Here in New York, we are still months away from summer. But what the winter lacks in weather, it makes up for in waves, as evidenced by this new portfolio and video (make sure you watch it! It’s so good!) of Mikey DeTemple in Maine. Enjoy! The Weight of Water
India’s first Bienniale
Last year, after participating for the first time in Venice’s Biennale, India started its own Biennale in Kochi last month. Featuring more than 80 artists, the Kochi Muziris Biennale is the largest international contemporary art event ever to take place in India. Throughout Kerala’s 2nd largest city, galleries, warehouses and public lots have been transformed […]
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 […]
“Lost Line”
Culling from LACMA’s permanent collection, the exhibition takes as its starting point Gabriel Orozco’s sculpture Lost Line (1993-1996). Orozco describes the piece as “the opposite of a static monument,” in effect a “sculpture as a body in motion.” Lost Line uses Orozco’s fragile and mutable form as premise to bring together works from the collection, including large-scale sculpture […]
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 […]
East London Furniture: Sustainability Through Reclaimation
The designers for would otherwise end up in landfills becomes rustic-looking furniture instead. That’s serious sustainability. — via Remodelista.com
Massif Management
Writing on the New Yorker‘s website, Jessie Wender notes the formation, last year, of Massif Management, a photo agency that represents a group of surfers who are also photographers.: I’m not sure that surf photography has a discernible style, as opposed to an established iconography, but the best of this work carries with it a […]
Lesley Vance & Ricky Swallow
At the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, Nov. 10, 2012–March 11, 2013. A review from the Los Angeles Times: The show pairs Swallow with painter Lesley Vance, who also happens to be his wife. The two have never shown together, but it is an inspired pairing. Swallow’s sculptures — which are bronze, in fact, […]
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? Is it possible to find a new purpose for its rigors and focus? Her latest book, Swimming Studies, adresses these very questions through paintings and photographs. Shapton’s essay from The New York times this summer about what makes us feel so primal in water is also an interesting read. View it here.
Jean-Philippe Piter / The Eye of St. Barth
Ever since I came across the unassuming Clic bookstore and gallery on Centre Street last year, I keep returning to check out the photographers they feature in New York and their other locations. Consistently bouncing between emerging and established artists, events at Clic always draw a richly diverse crowd. This Saturday, December 29th, Clic gallery in […]
Sam Moyer, The Drink
Sam takes canvas and dyes it with India ink, folding and creasing the treated fabric and laying it out to dry outdoors. Thinking, in her words, â??like a sailor,â? Moyer relies on the weather to work with her, though surprisesâ??whether more or less happyâ??are always part of the process. â??Naomi Fry.
Every Person Is A Philosopher
With the holiday season in mind, it’s important to remember the community aspect of creative culture, and pay attention to the networks across all cultures and social classes that we need to build and maintain in order for good art to thrive and proliferate. In Chicago, the Neighborhood Writing Alliance does exactly this. Under the […]
Self-Generating Christmas Trees: Sachiko Kodama
Upon first look, this might look like a Christmas tree surrounded by a sea of white snow. Â But look again:Â it’s actually the work of Japanese artist Sachiko Kodama. The black, spiky conifers are created by taking iron-laced oil and forcing it through channels through the use of magnets. The effect is dark, mesmerizing and strangely […]
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 […]
Here & Now: A Day in the Life of Surfing
This teaser for Taylor Steele’s Here & Now: A Day in the Life of Surfing, makes this wannabe surfer want to surf even more. It was shot in one day by more than 25 filmmakers and surfers who worked in unison to document the world of surfing in a single 24 hour period, May 2nd […]
Film Biz Recycling
Ever wonder what happens to a set after shooting wraps? Non-Profit organization even let us rent props if it costs to much to buy them.) By fostering relationships with individuals operating in film, theater, commercial and television, FBR offers crews a responsible recycling program once their project wraps. In addition to managing donations, Film Biz […]
Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective
This retrospective is the definitive exhibition to date of the work of Jay DeFeo (1929-89), one of the most important and innovative artists of her generation, but one who has still not been given her due. At the outset of her career in the 1950s, DeFeo was at the epicenter of the vibrant Beat community […]
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 […]
Two New Books on Beach and Surf Culture
This week sees the release of two new books on beach and surf culture. One, titled Slide Your Brains Out, compiles fifteen years of photographs taken by Thomas Campbell. From the book’s publicity description: “Campbell’s surfing photography has long been admired by fellow surfers for its lack of gloss finish; unlike most, he eschews the […]
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 […]
BlueSphere
Bluesphere, “a unique photographic bookâ??a collection of wave forms and ocean moments that beautifully illustrate the essence of the sea”â??by Gold Coast-based photographer Shelli Bankier, is out today. Just in time for the holidays. Beautiful images of surfing and the ocean. More here.
