I’m home after a little Spring Break and feeling all fired up. Driving back from up north, passing the open fields and California hills, it was pretty clear that we aren’t going to have a superbloom this year. Below, please find some brilliance in its place. Enjoy!
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Sometimes I marvel at how many artists I DON’T know about—and how much incredible work there is being made, all the time. Like Jeffrey Gibson, the first Native artist to represent the U.S. with a solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale.
This is one of those things I should probably read every year or so, both for the content and the craft: On Self Respect, by Joan Didion. From Vogue Magazine, 1961.
Aren’t these circa 1920s rattan chairs from Maison Louis Drucker just divine?
Choi So Young is a Korean quilt artist who works primarily with discarded denim, making incredible images of the urban landscape of contemporary China.
I’d like to be invited to this if it ever happens again. The Chelsea Arts Ball in London.
OK, seriously, this guy is incredible. And his IG page is full of clips of him dancing. So strong! So dexterous!
Someday I want to paint my house in the style of the hand painted Nubian houses in Aswan, Egypt.
The work of Carlijn Veurinka—both her fashion and costumes—is magical These two images are from a show called A Vibrant Encounter
BREAKFAST is a collective designing and making kinetic sculpture. The Pearl is the world’s largest kinetic art sculpture, made for Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Sea.
A legendary performance, captured live at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1969. Les McCann and Eddie Harris performing Compared to What?
The New York Times had an amazing article about Pictures of Belonging, a traveling exhibition that features the artwork of three Japanese American women of the pre-World War II generation. It travels to the Smithsonian later this year.
Ulla-Stina Wikander is Swedish artist who covers everyday objects with found bits of fiber art. The pieces celebrate the domestic artists and the beauty to be found in kitsch.
That’s it, folks! May it be a good weekend for you all. And may something capture your imagination. - Chris