ART + INSPIRATION
Pigeon Pageant and a Moss Garden
Summer! As of last night, we’re in the season of sun. Here in the Catskills right now, after all that rain, beauty abounds! It’s such a tonic—as I hope this week’s news will be, too. Enjoy!
Ooh, a nice taste of the Temptations.
You can take a self-guided tour through the famous Cloisters of Glasgow University.
Whoa—there’s a modernist cinema in a development in India conceived of by Le Corbusier, and it’s spectacular.
My husband really wants to grow a moss garden; they can be hard to start— but here’s a great example.
As a lifelong lover of tile, this feature about a Maiolica collection in Sicily makes my heart sing.
NYC’s High Line just held their Pigeon Pageant—-
I love that there’s such a thing as a pigment collection — and you can take an audio tour!
Another brilliant porcelain artist…and here’s her insta.
Incredible story of a Princess of the Romanov dynasty. What a life!
I’m swooning at the masterful beadwork by Demond Melancon of New Orleans. Here’s a short feature on him from CBS News.
Demond Melancon, “Queen First Lady” (2022) (image courtesy Arther Roger Gallery, New Orleans) A former public pool in France has been turned into La Piscine Museum
In 1942, Anaïs Nin moved a printing press into her studio at 144 Macdougal Street, New York. She taught herself how to set type and print in order to self-publish editions of her own work.
I adore the work of poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi—like this stunner right here:
At Last the New Arriving By Gabrielle Calvocoressi Like the horn you played in Catholic school the city will open its mouth and cry out. Don't worry 'bout nothing. Don't mean no thing. It will leave you stunned as a fighter with his eyes swelled shut who's told he won the whole damn purse. It will feel better than any floor that's risen up to meet you. It will rise like Easter bread, golden and familiar in your grandmother's hands. She'll come back, heaven having been too far from home to hold her. O it will be beautiful. Every girl will ask you to dance and the boys won't kill you for it. Shake your head. Dance until your bones clatter. What a prize you are. What a lucky sack of stars.
Wishing you moments of comfort and ease this weekend. —Chris
Marvelous!
Loved the list today! Wonderful mossy mix!