Tyra Banks and Andre Leon Talley Talk ‘America’s Next Top Model’ Cycle 15 and Vogue Italia
Filed under: Celebrity , News Tyra Banks with Andre Leon Talley. Photo: Getty Images for CW StyleList always suspected that if Tyra Banks had her supermodel way, Vogue pal Andre Leon Talley would have graced the ” America’s Next Top Model ” judges’ panel seasons ago.
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Tyra Banks and Andre Leon Talley Talk ‘America’s Next Top Model’ Cycle 15 and Vogue Italia
Illustration: Bela Angyal. Lace design, c1902. In the latter half of the nineteenth century Hungarian lace making saw an ever increasing official investment of time, money and energy
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Lace Work by Bela Angyal
Perhaps because it is almost fall and this summer has gone by so incredibly fast, my mind is on de-cluttering, purging and making space for new things in life. My husband and I spent the last week going from room to room gathering things that we no longer needed, loved or wanted. On Saturday morning we headed out very early in order to go to a flea market and sell a bunch of junk that’s taking up too much space in our lives. We had made a decision that whatever didn’t sell wasn’t coming back into the house either. So at the end I was left with only a few boxes of items to donate. The weather was so beautiful and this was our first time participating in a community flea market, in the past we would have just had a yard sale but I really enjoyed this alternative. I’d say about the only drawback (if you want to call it that) is that you may be tempted, as I was, to bring something new (to you) home. I got the two antique games below because I just love the charming images on them! I also found a couple small hand stitched textiles (which I will share in another post)
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Letting go of the old~Inviting in the new
London, Kensington Gardens, August, Sunday, blue skies, warmish. Just off the entrance to The Serpentine Gallery stands a temporary pavilion in hospital white. I approach the small building just as one of the last English heartbeats is recorded for posterity; that is, copied to a fat hard drive to be added to yet another fat hard drive then shipped to the uninhabited Japanese island of Teshima and digitally secured at the Benesse Art Site Naoshima…until Doomsday. This is the premise of the expanding and ongoing work of Christian Boltanski, Les Archives du Coeur , registering a rambling sample of the world’s pulse. Boltanski Beat: Charlotte Cooper with her heartbeat on CD, treasured souvenir of Christian Boltanski's Archives du Coeur Charlotte Cooper, an English teenager who with her mother trained down from Bristol to have the sound of her heart recorded for all time, emerges with her dog Toffee (on a outfit-matching pink leash), tenderly holding the two-minute CD of her heart’s lively beat, (she’s no
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Under An English Sky [Part II] : Christian Boltanski’s Les Archives Du Coeur At The Serpentine Gallery
It gave me exactly no pleasure today to shruggingly pan the AGO's Julian Schnabel show, Art + Film . More than anything, I guess I hated having to do it at all; so much ink has been spilled on Schnabel's art career over the years — most of it bloody — that I felt like my adding to the pile was an exercise in general futility. Still, everyone has to have a job, and part of mine, at least, is writing about shows, so I did what I had to in the space that I had to do it.
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Julian Schnabel: Picking up the pieces
Illustration: Otto Eckmann. Carpet design, c1898. The German artist Otto Eckmann, initially trained as a fine artist and then turning full time to the applied and decorative arts, became one of the central characters of the Jugendstil movement in Germany
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Rug Design by Otto Eckmann
As kind of a last minute thing, I took off to New York for the weekend, and in the 36 hours (minus sleep) I had to spend there, I managed to take in the Starn twins' (Mike and Doug's) mind-bendingly great (however oddly named) installation “You Can't You Won't You Don't Stop,” a vertiginously parasitic-seeming, two-story high tangle of bamboo installed on the roof deck of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. That deck has always been one of my favourite places on earth, a rare oasis of tranquility amid the madness of the city; with the installation, you'd think its zen-like vibe would be disrupted by an inevitable sense of claustrophobia, but not really; rather, it makes you aware of not just itself, but the built structure with which it bluntly intervenes. In a revelatory sort of way, its chaotic, organic assembly of material counters the ordered stone structure of the building, that softening and and balancing both (its uncanny ordered filtering of the piercing sunlight was extraordinarily gorgeous, too).
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Big Bambu at the Met
If you’re just starting your art career , you’ve come to the right place. Today begins a regular Monday Art Biz Blog feature for those of you taking the first steps toward selling your art
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How to Know When You’re Ready to Sell Your Art
Illustration: Paul Burck. Herbst im Isarthal , c1899. The tapestry work produced by the German artist and designer Paul Burck during the last years of the nineteenth century are probably some of the most interesting examples of the new European art of that era
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Tapestry Work of Paul Burck
Illustration: Felix Aubert. Fervenches printed velvet design, 1897 These five textile patterns were designed by the French designer Felix Aubert at the height of the European Art Nouveau movement. All were produced between about 1897 and 1899 and have elements that are typical of the period
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Textile Design of Felix Aubert
Illustration: Stained Glass from Owen Jones The Grammar of Ornament , 1856 In Britain stained glass design and production saw a massive rise in both popularity and function in the nineteenth century. It was used extensively in both the domestic and ecclesiastical markets and although artistically it can be said that the twentieth century may well have seen the apex of stained glass design work as far as creativity is concerned, it is still the nineteenth century that saw the craft appealing almost universally, probably for the first time since the medieval period. Although Owen Jones does cover stained glass decorative work in his 1856 The Grammar of Ornament , it is very much tucked away within the larger Medieval Ornament chapter.
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Owen Jones and Medieval Stained Glass Design
Illustration: Arpad Dekani Lace design c1908 Much of the early twentieth century revival of practical lace making, but more particularly that of designing lace within Hungary, can be attributed fairly squarely to Arpad Dekani. Professor Dekani, who started his career relatively humbly as a teacher at a provincial school in Hungary, eventually became a professor at the Arts and Crafts School in Budapest.
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Lace Design Work of Arpad Dekani
Illustration: Anders Zorn. Dalecarlian Scene tapestry panel, 1909 Anders Zorn the Swedish fine art painter is probably better known outside of his native Sweden, as that of an accomplished and highly successful nineteenth and early twentieth century portrait painter. Zorn travelled widely in both Europe and North America and his portraits made him wealthy and acclaimed.
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Anders Zorn Tapestries
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Staffing Shortage in UK attracting Locum Doctors
Illustration: Marlene Cohen Healing Marlene Cohen is a British textile artist that has taken her own strong and contemporary attitude towards her chosen medium, and created a distinctive style of composition and layering that is entirely her own. Cohen uses both printmaking and fine art disciplines, along with the usual aspects of textile work such as layering and stitching, to produce work that although technically part of the quilt medium, has managed to stretch that medium farther than most. Although Cohen works in a wide range of colours, tones and textures, I have chosen instead to concentrate on a series of pieces that she has produced in a much lower and more minimal colour scheme
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Contemporary Textile Work of Artist Marlene Cohen
Peggy Klaus is the author of Brag! How to Toot Your Own Horn Without Blowing It , which I recommend for every artist. I was thrilled to interview her about this book back in 2008 since it’s a topic artists struggle with: bragging about themselves and their accomplishments.
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Brag Better About Your Art, About You
Carolee Schneemann is one of the most important artists of the past forty years, so why did I find myself on a bus headed to a rural university an hour and a half north of New York City to see the most complete American overview of her work since an exhibition at the New Museum in 1997? Performance art is unthinkable without Schneemann who developed a feminist-centered art before the feminist movement existed
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Carolee Schneemann in New Paltz
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
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
Guest Blogger: Jeremy Mason As an artist without formal training, I have had to really break into the local art scene. That process is still happening and it has been a great learning experience. I haven’t yet landed that show at the gallery of my dreams, but I have optimized my exposure by finding creative and respected places to hang my art. Specifically, I have looked for fantastic art spaces without huge barriers to entry.
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Taking Advantage of Non-Gallery Art Venues