March 2009
30 posts
Geneva, March 23 - 30
Limited posting.
A xx
FOUND: My spring/summer 09 look via LINUS
I’m in LOVE
Linus via Refinery29
Current read: Vides/Voids, exhibition catalogue,...
Received the English version of this catalogue as a gift (yes! yes! yes!) and I’ve been reading a few pages at night before bed.
I was lucky enough to hear a bit about this exhibition before it opened, and can only hope I have an excuse to be in Paris before it closes…. Really fascinating to consider the absense of object/color/forms as its own form of art.
My only exposure to...
“All of the architects rejected the 1960s French solution to suburban sprawl of...”
– The more I read, the more interested I become.
Does anyone know anything of the 1960s proposals in France that suggested ‘satellite cities’ were the way to go???
Would love to read up on this more.
Sarkozy’s daring design dreams for a new ‘Grand Paris’ |...
Carine Roitfeld, Revealed (VIDEO)
“There is a way to charge an entrance fee and yet keep costs down for art lovers...”
– This is a comment from a very smart reader on Rupert Crhistiansen’s blog for the Telegraph debating the merits of free admission at museums.
I am a big advocate of free admission, but I also think we should all do our part to support a museum’s success. The reader suggests that we...
France Unveils Bold Architectural Proposals for... →
Interesting to read through the summaries of all the proposals for the reworking of Paris into a “post-Kyoto city”. There are a variety of proposed solutions or moods to the shift in urban planning. Sarkozy enacted the study in order to move Paris towards being a more sustainable and inclusive city …. getting rid of the barrier which separate central Paris from the surrounding...
“I think that genuinely giving a shit is the most important thing.”
– Matt Sonzala / SXSW hiphop 2009: playlist and interview | Fairtilizer blog: The Do It Yourself Music Club
via Stephane
I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible. Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each others’ happiness, not by each others’ misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world, there’s room for everyone, and the good Earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The...
The recession and US museums - The Art Newspaper →
So much to think about thanks to this article - both moments that I disagree with and other where I’m totally flabbergasted that I hadn’t considered before.
Check the three major points at the end of the article, don’t agree with all of them - but still need to sort out my thinking on them.
500 Days of Summer: trailer
Want to see this. Via Cup of Jo
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“Instead of being a venue for one-off flying visits by orchestras, the Barbican...”
– The Barbican is introducing a new model for performance venues - creating residencies for some of the world’s most renowned orchestras; creating a much stronger relationship between audience, institution, and performer - and moving well away from the touring model many orchestras utilize in...
U.S. foundation gives $1.3 million to help the... →
The Annenberg has granted approx 1.3 million (USD) to help the Louvre found its education department (something no American music exists without)…
The article claims that the Louvre is the first French museum to proceed with such a program - I wonder if that is true.
I recall hands-on gallery areas and special children’s galleries @ Le Pompidou - but perhaps those don’t...
La Belle Personne par Christophe Honore (Trailer)
I’m a sucker for French cinema like this (even if after I finish one of the films I feel a bit empty and less in love with life for a moment, then I talk to my boyfriend and inevitably ask him ‘why do people make films that make me feel this way?’ and he reassures me).Ha.
Are there any French films WITHOUT Louis Garrel? Not hating at all, just asking.
La Belle...
If I lived in NYC, I'd want to attend all of... →
This week looks particularly amazing:
“Under the Table and Off the Books: Informal Economies in the Developing City – and Your City”
Journalist Robert Neuwirth speaks about black, gray, and other alternative markets developed and practiced in various shanty towns and immigrant communities around the world. The landmarked site of J.P. Morgan’s former private residence, 14 Wall’s 31st floor most...
subterranean.
More the title than the actual content.
Book cover design by High Design NYC.
“In a boom, it’s cool to love art, see art, buy art. Art is taken seriously. A...”
– This may be true, but what can we do to flip it so that art is seen as a necessity and ‘cool’ in both times of great economic prosperity and times such as these???
Why Recession Isn’t Good for Art — New York Magazine
“Brandeis University’s president, seeking to quell an uproar over a plan to...”
– President Jehuda Reinharz has certainly made his place in history.
After his unbelievably bad announcement of Brandeis’ plans to close the Rose Art Museum (handled with very little finesse, and a lack of detail which only worsened a blow to the art world), he is now back pedaling like no one...
