Cy Twombly

The current Cy Twombly at the Art Institute of Chicago (The Natural World, Selected Works 2000-2007) is spectacular. Self-explanatory, mostly, but one note - the way he is able to translate the complex emotions of experiencing peonies with just paint on canvas is amazing.


A couple more not from the AIC exhibit but caught my eye in Google image search:





The Gagosian frequently exhibits his work. Just take a look at the scale of his painting installations...



He is certainly a master; I bow down.

Linda Perhacs - Chimacum Rain

HEAD OVER HEELS for this song. Only knew the Prefuse 73 version, which was already ridiculous, but never thought about the source until I recognized it immediately in le film (via Ringo, have a banana!) - a Vanessa Bruno fall promo video directed by Stéphanie Di Giusto, which is gorgeous but you need to be into Lou Doillon aka pouty, skinny French models. Anyway, the emotions for this aforementioned version of this song runs deep:

Everyone has THAT time in their lives; that was mine. Now, to find the 1970 LP of Linda Perhacs' Parallelograms in a thrift store would pretty much complete the circle...

Soft color

From square(Good old school days) series on Flickr. via simply photo

Nos Da by Donna Wilson

There's more where this came from - I wanted to post them all, so I just posted one to restrain myself. Donna Wilson's textile art is killer. via katy elliott

Owen Gatley

I love pop-up dioramas! Owen seems to whip these babies up out of nowhere. A couple more:

via design work life

Two Are One

"Two Are One" by Dri, directed by Neil Krug. via the blue hour

Today I saw

So much admiration for people who commit to producing something every single day. I'm trying to channel this by posting blog entries on a daily basis (lame, compared to what other folk on the Internets are doing, but whatevs - it's better than nothing). I've definitely recognized that my determination comes in waves, so I'm attempting to smooth that out a bit.

Daily gestures of creativity I took notice of lately: Jill draws a postcard of what she saw and sends them out to her friends. via {frolic!} & fine little day

The BQE

We were lucky enough to attend the world premiere of The BQE at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2007 - the symphonic/cinematic piece composed by Sufjan Stevens commissioned by BAM. Two years later, its release from Sufjan's label:

The official album release of The BQE follows nearly two years after its original performance at BAM, providing the songwriter (and his various collaborators) ample time to wrestle out all the thematic incarnations of the project, and to attempt an appropriation of Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work"). The resulting album might be best described as a grand creative franchise-incorporating movie, symphony, comic book, dissertation, photography, graphic design, and a 3-D Viewmaster® reel-in which a songwriter's interrogation of one of New York's ugliest landmarks expands athletically to forums and formulas outside of the song itself. In fact, the BQE is everything but a song.

Makes me love Brooklyn even more. via Pitchfork

Helga Steppan

In this series called 'See Through,' Swedish artist Helga Steppan did an audit of all her belongings, divided them according to color and then photographed them. More here. via designer's library

Inspirations from Brooklyn Museum visit today:



"Maiden & Moonflower" Wallpaper, Kiki Smith. (The museum displays the top-left vermilion version. Many other gorgeous colors discovered from Studio Printworks.)


Homage to the Square, Josef Albers. (Not exactly the ones on display at the museum, but it's similar to this colorway)


Hanging Room Divider, Ted Hallman.


Landscape, Stuart Davis.

Other pieces of note that I can't find good images for: a vase by Pueblo potter Grace Chino and a gorgeous painting entitled "Light Extending Itself" by Irene Pereira.