I recently discovered the Diego Rivera Pan American Unity mural at the Ocean campus of City College of San Francisco. I live and work in the Mission, a neighborhood filled with mural art, but seeing work by Rivera reminded me that his work is something else altogether. Despite my own passion for politics, I usually [...]
Have you ever walked into a store & just wanted to move in? It’s been there nearly a year now, but I have somehow missed Gravel & Gold on 21st & Lexington, right off of Valencia. They have local honey, Swedish clogs, 70’s design books, great clothes, and they host some impressive art shows, pickling [...]
I’m not sure if the goal of “restoring New York to what it once was” can ever be physically perceptible, but the virtual restoration on themannahattaproject.org is fascinating. There is something very small and poetic about reintroducing native plant species to an environment like New York, and something very elegiac about seeing the same seasonal [...]
Too bad this exhibit is at the Barbican Center now rather than when I was in London 6 months ago! The Barbican itself is a treat: Le Corbusier inspired, Brutalist, 1970’s design insanity, and the exhibit looks like a refreshing, multigenerational look at land art, utopianism and experimental architecture.
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These photographs are part of a series done by Schink using true solarization, showing the movement of the sun across the sky. I love it that they look like crosses between ancient photos and contemporary drawings or paintings. Otherworldly.
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Greg and I visited the recently completed sculpture garden on the roof of San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art today. We had a great afternoon, it was sunny and hot, and we had the best iced coffee ever at the new Blue Bottle Coffee cafe anchoring the space. I enjoyed it, and looked forward to [...]
As I sit and stress and become overwhelmed, it is heartening to know that Rome, despite what everyone says, can in fact be built in a day.
The project, “24 Hour Roman Reconstruction Project, or, Building Rome in a Day,” was designed by Liz Glynn and is on view at The New Museum’s Generational: Younger Than [...]
Sam Bompas and Harry Parr are doing something seriously sublime with their architecture degrees. From the New York Times today, “All the desserts in the market were very stodgy, and we know from history that jellies were once considered to be the pinnacle of sophistication…”
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OK, The Last Year at Marienbad can be infuriating (remember those SNL Calvin Klein ad spoofs in the 90’s?) but also beautiful, haunting and unforgettable. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a designed landscape featured so centrally in a film. The movie is a rambling, surreal, dream/nightmare, and the Chanel wardrobe and 1960’s hair [...]
Diasuke Ueno is another artist that is giving me design goosebumps… Greg and I saw this work in Japan a few years ago and it makes me think of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities.
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