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? 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.
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 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 […]
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. â??Where are you the happiest?â? And: â??Why is it so difficult to do what makes you the happiest?â? 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 […]
Queens Museum Rockaway Fundraiser
Following up on Deborah’s posts, there’s a fundraiser this Sunday at the Queens Museum of Art. More details below and here.
Forthcoming Exhibition on “Pressing Environmental Issues” at MoMA
Midway through a New York Times human-interest story on curator Klaus Biesenbach’s hurricane-relief efforts comes word of a new exhibition of interest to Harmony Blog readers: The bus unloaded at the Rockaway Beach Surf Club on Beach 87th Street, discharging a group of volunteers that included waifish artists, MoMA members, surfers and a film crew gathering […]
Climate Change & Sandy
The latest natural disaster presents an opportunity to better understand climate change. The Huffington Post ran an interesting piece about the relationship between natural disasters and climate change. Has anyone seen other good articles on the topic?
Occupy Sandy
I continue to be amazed by the Occupy Sandy movement. From the NYT: After its encampment in Zuccotti Park, which changed the public discourse about economic inequality and introduced the nation to the trope of the 1 percent, the Occupy movement has wandered in a desert of more intellectual, less visible projects, like farming, fighting […]
Rockaway After Sandy
While we at the Harmony Blog lost only our server for a few days (because of power outages), other areas of New York were destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. Our friends at WAX magazine went out immediately and wrote the following about one of the hardest hit areas: Thirty-six hours after Superstorm Sandy hit, we went […]
Rosemarie Trockel at the New Museum
Randy Kennedy interviewed Rosemarie Trockel about her new show: “I think when people come to the show,” Ms. Trockel said, “they should try first just to look and not to think, not to bring all of their conceptions and influences into it.” It is a lesson that Ms. Trockel said she tried hard to follow […]
Salted
One week left to see Thom Gilbert’s show in the East Village at Dorian Grey Gallery. The exhibit will feature his most recent body of photographic portraits from his forth-coming book: S A L T E D. “On display will be a vast collection of intimate portraits of current and iconic surfing legends and an […]
