Posts from — August 2009

Another good thing to come out of Harlem. FAST BOY CYCLES!
They build custom bicycles to your… and very much to my likeness.

Love the simplicty of this white room and admire the guts to turn this mirror into a “coat rack”…

Southafrican Diane Victor painted these amazing portraits applying carbon from candle smoke on white paper.

The portraits are made with the deposits of carbon from candle smoke on white paper. They are exceedingly fragile and can be easily damaged, disintegrating with physical contact as the carbon soot is dislodged from the paper. I was interested in the extremely fragile nature of these human lives and of all human life, attempting to translate this fragility into portraits made from a medium as impermanent as smoke itself.

See and learn more about that project at Michael Stevenson

Spam mails… illustrated by Art Director Elliot Burford. Witty!

Visiting the next big exhibiton… looking  at the labels on the museum wall… you’ll notice a little note saying “On loan from …”, somewhere like NYC, Tokyo, Basel Switzerland or some other exotic place

Noni Stacey gives you the inside view on “Art on the move” in the Guardian.

Last winter, when the art economy was looking especially dark, a group of Manhattan photography dealers got together and decided to put on a spirit-lifting show: “New York Photographs,” a summertime tribute to the greatest city on earth.

Read Ken Johnson’s entire review in the NYT

Lovely execution by BJL, Manchester, UK

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