Saturday, January 31, 2015
Friday, January 30, 2015
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
The Peculiar Genius of Bjork
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Sunday, January 25, 2015
Saturday, January 24, 2015
marchesa luisa casati
Labels:
another life,
art,
Depravity Horror and Ecstasy,
fashion
The Spirit of the Beehive
"The Spirit of the Beehive," directed by Víctor Erice, takes place in a
small, isolated Spanish town in 1940, shortly after the end of the civil
war that inaugurated the long reign of Generalissimo Francisco Franco.
The film was made in 1973, near the end of Franco's dictatorship, at a
time when Spanish cinema was just starting to reawaken, and to probe,
carefully and hesitantly, the buried traumas of the recent past. Perhaps
fittingly, one of Mr. Erice's themes is repression — not so much the
stifling of thought by political authority as the willed avoidance of
painful experience. The story that emerges from Mr. Erice's lovely,
lovingly considered images is at once lucid and enigmatic, poised
between adult longing and childlike eagerness, sorrowful knowledge and
startled innocence. — A. O. Scott
Labels:
monsters,
movies,
paper moon,
pastelegram,
research
Friday, January 23, 2015
Bette David 1963 Interview... Ahead of her time on gender.
New favorite find. Blank on Blank PBS animated interview series. So well done and so many voices to hear from first hand.
Also love the Elliot Smith.
Labels:
another life,
Depravity Horror and Ecstasy,
gender,
nice things,
video
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Pastelegram: We Belong Dead
Guest Artist: Margaret Meehan
ONGOING
Dualities
of the monstrous and beautiful, stasis and change inform digital
collages, poetry, experiments with found text and an art-historical
essay. Visit often for updates and spend time here with the digital collages a collaboration between Meehan, Lauren Green and Eric Harvey.
Interview with Chelsea Weathers here.
Interview with Chelsea Weathers here.
Local Color
When Oregon was granted statehood in 1859, it was the only state in the
Union admitted with a constitution that forbade black people from
living, working, or owning property there. It was illegal for black people even to move to the state until 1926. Oregon's founding is part of the forgotten history of racism in the American west. Full story here.
PBS documentary Local Color here.
PBS documentary Local Color here.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Martha Graham
“You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to
keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the
channel open. No artist is ever pleased.
There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer
divine dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and
makes us more alive than others." Martha Graham
Monday, January 19, 2015
Sunday, January 18, 2015
Friday, January 16, 2015
Similar but different
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Monday, January 12, 2015
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Joan Didion’s Céline campaign and Self Respect
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Photo: Juergen Teller for Céline. |
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Full essay here. |
Labels:
another life,
articles,
books,
fashion,
nice things
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Saturday, January 3, 2015
These 'Almost Famous Women' Won't Be Forgotten Again
In Almost Famous Women, writer Megan Mayhew Bergman takes us
into the compelling lives of independent, inventive women at the margins
of history. These are fictionalized accounts of real-life, risk-taking
women who have largely been forgotten, and now are re-imagined by
Bergman in her new book — a book she tells NPR's Eric Westervelt that
she resisted writing at first. NPR Story here.
Friday, January 2, 2015
Thousands of wallpaper designs — from the early 18th century to the mid 20th — are now online.
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This French wallpaper was manufactured by Zuber et Cie between 1830 and 1831. It was printed in gray, green, and white on a polished green background and features leaves framing floral medallions. |
Waterhouse isn’t alone in her fixation. Wallpaper has been the subject of exhibitions at institutions like New York’s International Print Center and Manchester’s Whitworth Gallery,
and artists like Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst have even created their
own designs. It surfaces throughout literature, too — in books like Crime and Punishment and short stories like The Yellow Wallpaper.
Now all of us who share Waterhouse’s fascination with wallpaper can explore her 1,400-item-strong collection online.
After her death, the archive was donated to Historic New England, which
recently finished digitizing it along with 4,800 other wallpaper
samples. “The collection is searchable by date, location, and
manufacturer, and by keywords like color and type of pattern,”
cataloguer Peggy Wishart said in a press release. “You can zoom in to see every detail.”
Thursday, January 1, 2015
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