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Tyra Banks and Andre Leon Talley Talk ‘America’s Next Top Model’ Cycle 15 and Vogue Italia

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:40:00 +0000

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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Lace Work by Bela Angyal

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:05:48 +0000

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

Letting go of the old~Inviting in the new

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:35:27 +0000

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)

Under An English Sky [Part II] : Christian Boltanski’s Les Archives Du Coeur At The Serpentine Gallery

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:41:59 +0000

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

Julian Schnabel: Picking up the pieces

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:47:20 +0000

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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Rug Design by Otto Eckmann

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:33:04 +0000

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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Big Bambu at the Met

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:43:22 +0000

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

How to Know When You’re Ready to Sell Your Art

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:49:17 +0000

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

Tapestry Work of Paul Burck

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:59:30 +0000

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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Textile Design of Felix Aubert

admin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:53:03 +0000

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