Olafur Eliasson
How irresponsible of you to show model Carmen Kass separating her eyelashes with, of all things, a safety pin [“Best of Beauty,” October]. Let’s hope none of your readers display such a, so to speak, glaring lack of common sense.
Kathe R., Las Vegas (Allure, December 2009)
Thanks for all the awesome tips! I particularly enjoyed the tip about poking my eyes out with a safety pin. At first I was like “Maybe I shouldn’t,” but then I did, and it’s definitely given me a new perspective. As in, no perspective, because now I am blind. Kudos!
Marcie T., Mobile, AL
Letters to the Editors of Women’s Magazines, with Edith Zimmerman (via Get That L@@k!)
Paul McCobb American Furniture designer (1917-1969) (via MAFIA-HUNT)
Marijn van Kreij (via MAFIA-HUNT)
Yoshitomo Nara Towel, new from the Art Production Fund.
I love, love, love my Works on Whatever towels, even though they’re impractically ginormous. Alex Katz! Cindy Sherman! Jeff Koons! My beloved Ed Ruscha! And now Yoshitomo & Peter Doig.
aaron feinberg
national geographics international photography contest (2009)
Stunning!
Yayoi Kusama
Narcissus garden (detail) 1966/2002
Site-specific work (this one is at the QAG in Australia)
The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, born in 1929, has spent the last 20 years commuting between her large studio in the Tokyo suburbs and the psychiatric hospital that she chooses to call home.
in 1966, when, with the help of the Milanese artist Lucio Fontana, she presented “Narcissus Garden,” a rogue installation of 1,500 reflective metal balls. (At the time, Kusama, dressed in a kimono, hawked the balls herself for $2 a piece on the lawn in front of the Padiglione Italia in the Venice Biennale Giardini.) Another version of the same work is now in Milan and it still leaves you breathless, letting you see your image reflected endlessly on the spherical surfaces. The effect was even more dramatic at night, when the images were reflected not just on the balls but on the glass wall facing the garden behind them.
(via Flower Power | Kusama-rama, From Miami to Milan - The Moment Blog - NYTimes.com)
Kehinde Wiley’s “Equestrian Portrait of King Philip II,” 2009, at Deitch Projects (not my favourite Wiley, but props for the bombast)
MIAMI — The first person I saw at yesterday’s V.I.P. preview for Art Basel Miami Beach was Sylvester Stallone. Accompanied by a bodyguard, he was studying a new painting by Julian Schnabel hanging at Deitch Projects. This was fascinating. When Brad Pitt, Steve Martin or Sofia Coppola show up on the circuit, they are shopping as collectors. Stallone, a Sunday painter, was actually at the fair to sell. By late afternoon, I heard that three of his canvases had gone to buyers at Galerie Gmurzynska, which was also hawking Miró, Botero and Malevich.
Lots of Art Basel Miami coverage over on The Moment Blog, including an interview with Aurel Schmidt.
(via Art Basel Miami Beach | Doing More With More - The Moment Blog - NYTimes.com)
nice!
black to back and light installation view at the clint roenisch gallery
jeremy r. jansen
niall mcclelland
richard serra
ellsworth kelly