artblog radio – Powhida and Dalton
This episode sponsored by philadelphia alternative comic con New York art darlings William Powhida and Jennifer Dalton speak with us about jurying Vox VI and art politics. Below is the 28-second sample clip
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artblog radio – Powhida and Dalton
I have noticed more and more reclaimed windows upcycled as mirrors lately, and really like how they create a ‘trompe l’oeil’ of a window in the room, reflecting light back. images Ballard Designs , Coco + Kelly , Fer Travail , SalvoWeb My favourites are old art deco- looking industrial windows, as they can be quite ornamental without being fussy and add an instant architectural feature to a space. Instant yum
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Industrial Reflections
Filed under: Fashion , Celebrity , News , Designers & Brands , Celebrity Style Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz seal it with a kiss. Photo: Stephanie Pistel Looks like Vera Wang has been one busy woman. As if designing Chelsea Clinton’s wedding dress , in addition to those of her bridesmaids wasn’t enough, StyleList just received confirmation that Alicia Keys also wore Vera Wang to marry music producer Swizz Beatz on July 31 in Corsica, France
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Alicia Keys Wedding Dress – Vera Wang Goddess Gown
I had a Shop Wide Sale this Week-end! EVERYTHING has been discounted… from 10% to 50%. I’ll be discontinuing some of the bookmarks and prints once this week-end sale is over..
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Shop Wide Week-End Sale Ends Today
Filed under: Celebrity , News , Celebrity Style Are we having a blonde moment or is this a “‘ Hit Me Baby One More Time ” country mashup? Carrie Underwood performed on the ” Today Show ” (as part of NBC’s summer concert series ) at NYC’s Rockefeller Center wearing an outfit that took us straight back to Britney Spears circa her bubblegum-pop heyday in the ’90s. The newlywed paired Herringbone Cady Cuff Shorts and a Jabot Career Blouse from Alice + Olivia by Stacey Bendet with a cropped, menswear blazer by Topshop
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Carrie Underwood Channels Britney Spears for ‘Today Show’ Performance
Oracle shuts down open source test servers Oracle shut down its three PostgreSQL build farm servers without warning…”If they had given us, say, three months warning, I'd have been less peeved,” Dunstan told iTnews. “It can't have been costing them much – the thing pretty much runs itself, and they can't be short on hardware.” Slashdot Ask Slashdot Story | What To Do About CC License Violations?
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Illustration: Gunnar Wennerberg The Willows tapestry design c1913 The Swedish designer Gunnar Wennerberg is probably better known inside and outside his native Sweden, for the innovative glass and ceramic decorative work that he produced during the last few years of the nineteenth century and the start of the twentieth century. However, Wennerberg also produced a certain amount of textile work, particularly but not exclusively for the Handarbetets Vanner and the Licium. Wennerberg produced a number of tapestries during the first decade of the twentieth century and those shown in this article give some indication at least as to the style and compositional qualities that were very much associated with him at the time.
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Gunnar Wennerberg Tapestry design
Harold McGee, author of the seminal On food and cooking: The science and lore of the kitchen (which is one of my favorite non-recipe books for the kitchen) has done it again! The book Keys to Good Cooking: A Guide to Making the Best of Foods and Recipes is to appear in October, but is already available for pre-order as I write. The book is one step closer to the kitchen and the actual cooking than On food and cooking. In a mini Q&A with NY Times in 2008 Harold McGee said the following: “I’ve heard from many cooks that while they value the scope and depth of “On Food & Cooking,” when they need practical help with a specific technique or ingredient it’s often hard for them to locate the information.
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New book from McGee: Keys to Good Cooking
13.08-16.08.2010 ORNARIS – Trade Fair for Innovations and Trends Zurich (Switzerland) 20.08.- 23.08.2010 Formland – Trade Fair for Skandinavian Design, Table Top, Giftware, Handicraft & applyed Art Herning (Denmark) 27.08.-31.08.2010 Tendence – Internationale Frankfurter Herbstmesse frankfurt/Main (Germany) 01.09.-05.09.2010 Habitare – Furniture and Interior Decoration Fair Helsinki (Finland) 03.09.-05.09.2010 CREATIV SALZBURG – Intern.Trade Fair for gifts,home accessories,design-&lifestyle articles,paper,office+ station.goods,floristry,handycraft supplies,art products,toys.. Salzburg (Austria) 03.09.-07.09.2010 Meuble Paris – Furniture Paris Paris (France) 03.09.-07.09.2010 TRADEXPO – International Volume Goods Tradeshow Paris (France) 03.09.-07.09.2010 maison & objet – Home Decoration, Giftware and Tableware Trade Exhibition Paris (France) 08.09.-12.09.2010 INTERGIFT – International Gift Fair Madrid (Spain) 08.09.-12.09.2010 BNV – Budapest International Fair – BIF Budapest (Hungary) 09.09.-12.09.2010 MACEF incl. Chibi ; Cart – International Home Show Milan (Italy) 12.09.-14.09.2010 Top Drawer Autumn London (Great Britain) 19.09.-21.09.2010 ETFAM Trade Fair 2010 – FAIR TRADE Beursgebouw Eindhoven The Netherlands 23.09.-26.09.2010 100%DESIGN incorp
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Trade Fairs in August and September 2009 Consumer Goods & Furniture
CBI The Netherlands http://www.cbi.eu/ is in the process of conducting a 3 day product development workshop. This will be based on the product development guide written by my colleague Ms
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CBI Product Development Workshop Vietnam HCMC & Hanoi
Illustration: Silk textile design from Alexandria, 6th century Some of the most colourful and obviously charming textiles to come out of what we would see as Ancient Egypt were those produced during the early Christian era. These Coptic textiles, named after the Christians of Egypt, the Copts, have little that seem at first to be immediately identifiable as belonging to Egypt.
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Coptic Textile Design Work
This morning's paper offers a severely abbreviated version of the story I wrote about Ansel Adam's “lost” negatives being revealed at a Beverly Hills gallery yesterday. As many readers have asked for more detail — things like background, figures, etc, that were included in my original story — I'm re-publishing it here.
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Ansel Adams in full
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No idea what ‘Fiwado’ means but it is a oil selling ship here in Arnhem. Now with the drugs-boat gone it’s quite a nice view although I went to this spot because I saw two very nice boats yesterday, … they already left this morning.
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"Fiwado." Arnhem, Holland.
Illustration: Wall tiling decoration of the Pavilion of Mahubay, 16th century The influences and origins of nineteenth century English decorative arts, its pattern work, design styles and principles, is both complex and wide ranging. However, at the forefront of these influences is undoubtedly the impact of the decorative arts of Islam. From the reform principles of Owen Jones to the accomplished founder of the English Arts & Crafts movement William Morris, to the many designers, decorators, critics and writers of Victorian Britain, Islam proved to be a particularly rich deposit of what determined to be the fundamental level of all design, decoration and pattern as seen by the Victorians.
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The Influence of Islamic Decoration on the Victorian
Soaking wet but I had a great evening! “Tussen de buien.” Arnhem, Holland. (Between the showers.) Oil on panel.
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"Between the showers." Arnhem, Holland.
Illustration: Sidney Haward wallpaper frieze 1893 Sidney Haward, one of the best known of British textile and wallpaper designers of the period spanning the decades that saw the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries, is relatively unknown today. Despite the fact that Haward was seen in the same light and at the same design level as other British designers such as Voysey and Mawson, and that he also ran the Haward Design Studio which was to provide Liberty with much of its design work during this period, it seems strange yet interesting how his work seems to have faded away.
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Wallpaper Design by Sidney Haward
Janice Warriner Coral Barclay Becky Joy AJ LaGasse David Edwards Andrew Orr Cheryl Pass Cheryl Ratcliff Karla Nolan Justin Clayton To purchase any painting, simply visit the artist’s blog for details!
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Daily Art by Daily Painters – July 25, 2010
You probably already read t he story in the paper by my colleague, Wendy Gillis, about former chief curator Dennis Reid being forced to retire prior to the 2014 date written into his contract. There are a million arguments to be made here, about clearing the way for young, dynamic staff, or for an infusion of independent projects giving the museum new life, and none of them are bad; but one thing's for sure: At the age of 67, Reid (left, with painter John Hartman) was likely the most prominent scholar on Canadian art actually working in a museum, not a university, and moreover, was a tireless champion of Canadian artists — a conscience the AGO needs, and will miss. I wish him the best in whatever he does.
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Illustration: Nineteenth century macrame border fringe design Macrame is a form of knot work that although not strictly considered to be lace itself, is related to that discipline and was sometimes in the past known as macrame lace. The name macrame originally comes from the Arabic migrameh which is said to denote ornamental fringe.
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Macrame Decorative Work