Archives for July 2009
This month, I needed to get some distractions out of my system but now the blog should be back on schedule (albeit, a relaxed, summer schedule.) What are you doing reading blogs in July anyway? Here are some things I missed in the meantime: Simon Critchley’s American Apparel ad, Bradgelina love road trips and Taco Bell, Metacritique, RIP Phyllis Gotlieb, Brian Baker “Interactive Architecture” series on Ballardian, Andrew Zornoza very great summer reading list. His book “Where I Stay” is lovely. “Love, Virtually,” Virgina Heffernan at her best, Anna Kavan’s New Zealand (”Kavan’s writing is really an equal to Katherine Mansfield at her best. It shares a crystalline quality, a hypnotic otherness which may have come from her heroin addiction but translates, on the page, into prose completely unlike anything..”), Paddy Johnson on fan production in the art world, The Dark Side of Scrabble, The Art of Juliet Jacobson, Karen Archey’s favorite links, Zaha Hadid’s Bach performance space Manchester Art Gallery, where “Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism” is opening in a couple months (which I plan on checking out, when I’m in the UK for the Frieze Art Fair), Emily Gould on Millionaire Matchmaker, and this: “The idea behind this performance is simple: I install a bed in a gallery or other performance-friendly public space, and stay in it until somebody gives me $10,000 dollars (or I am struck by lightning, whichever comes first)” (via.)
If you are an artist, you’ve probably already seen The Tools the Artists Use. If you aren’t, you might find it just as fascinating. (via.)
The Boston Globe writes about the Davis Square Tiles Project, which tracks down the students who 30 years ago put up painted tiles at Davis Square T station’s brick entrance wall. (via.) “’How many people walk by those tiles and think they were made by some third-grader this year?’ said Sabino Lagattolla. Lagattolla, who drew a sailing ship under a beaming yellow sun when he was in second grade, is now a 38-year-old network engineer, living in Hudson with a wife, two children, and another baby due in November.”
Prairie Avenue in Chicago was the place that got me really interested in design and architecture. It may be closing soon.
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