Enid Crow (right) and Vivian Justin (left) play their songs about the smallest pony in the world and other things at the riffRAG launch party. Fun!
Category Archives: Art
Redbeard at Bluestockings
The lovely Sam Miller plays her sad, beautiful, country-style songs under the name “Redbeard” at the riffRAG issue 2 launch party last weekend. Redbeard are so awesome, you should ask Sam to play in your town soon: http://www.myspace.com/redbeardband
Thermoses at City Reliquary
City Reliquary bills itself as “your community museum.” Though I have yet to go in, this thermos collection caught my eye tonight. When I first walked by two people were already taking pictures, so not wanting to look like the fool, I waited until I walked by the second time. I love things like this in NYC…
Carolin Mak Installation Floor
Last night I quickly stopped by the opening reception of a show at PS 122 in the East Village to see my former colleague Caroline Mak’s installation in their foyer. This photo doesn’t reveal the obcessive detail of the piece- paper doilies cut out and pasted on the wall to create vintage looking “wall paper,” but I love how her pieces surround you- they create an environment that almost feels living and breathing in a space using industrial and household materials. Caroline is giving an artist talk at the riffRAG launch party next week and I’m totaly excited.
Awesome Noguchi Sculptures
These sculptures were also some of my favorites in a completely different way then Noguchi’s rougher more “natural” stones that were in the sculpture garden. They almost remind me of the characters in Miro’s paintings. They have so much character and life and feeling in them.
Inside Noguchi Museum
Again, a really nice space. And a stone ring, how crazy is that?
Noguchi Fountain
Last weekend my parents came for a visit and we went to the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, Queens. This is an awesome little museum tucked in a semi-industrial zone. It’s where Noguchi used to work and he planned the garden (I believe…). It’s really reflective to be there. This was one of my favorite pieces (my mom’s too)… I love how the water forms the thinned skim on the stone and reflects the trees and sky. I like how it combins the hard corners of stone with the deep, calming qualities of running water.
Coco Chanel by Marie Laurencin
A paitner I had never heard of, a woman of course, a contemporary of Picasso, she had her own little room at the Orangerie Museum and I was so taken by her work, lots of greys and roses and blues, the paintings all had women and dogs in the them, a comment on ladies nature? But of course she is not as rememebered as all those other modnerist dudes, even if her paintings are way more interesting.
Orangerie Museum
I finally got to see Monet’s waterlillies in person and also sme impressionist work, though I loved these window most of all.
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