Guido e Luisa;

UPDATE: To see the meal we enjoyed while watching 8 1/2, click here.
As I mentioned last week, on Saturday we decided to base our meal around the movie we were to watch that evening, 8 1/2. For anyone struggling in the creative process, it’s a fantastic film to indulge in, as the lines between Guido [...]

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It’s a long road to Caanan on Bleeker Street;

Tuesday afternoon while reading swissmiss I learned that the MoMA has recently installed a temporary exhibit in the Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street (I love those street names, by the way) station in Brooklyn called MoMA Atlantic Pacific:

It’s meant to add art to a subway station for a monthlong period, but it’s also clear that it’s meant [...]

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Un pezzo di ispirazione;

One of my favorite places to find reasonably priced, unique gifts is MoMA Store, and if I’m looking for some design porn as a pick-me-up, the online selection seldom fails to deliver.  Currently they are featuring a new, limited-time-only collection called Destination:  Seoul that features everyday products previously only available in South Korea (per the [...]

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Un pezzo di ispirazione;

Once again it’s snowing out, but it should be turning to rain shortly if it hasn’t already, and I need some color.  Back in the spring we went to see Color Chart:  Reinventing Color from 1950 to Today at the MoMA which featured some gorgeous pieces from the museum’s collection, but they allowed no photography [...]

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I’ll remember Frank Lloyd Wright: all of the nights we harmonized till dawn. I’ve never laughed so long, so long, so long;

During the cold snap that has gripped much of the nation (and especially the Northeast), in a quiet house nestled in the bucolic quietude of southern Chester County, PA (happily removed from many of the McMansions that have sprouted there recently), one of America’s greatest living artists passed from this world into the next one.  [...]

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It’s not over till you’re underground, it’s not over before it’s too late;

Today was a positively gorgeous day here in the Have, and I really had no excuse not to make good on that promise to myself and to you, loyal readers, to venture downtown and visit Yale’s two art galleries.  Both were designed by Louis Kahn, the famed architect who was the subject of My Architect, [...]

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I never thought I would find myself in bed amongst the stones;

There’s a new exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art focusing on one of Philadelphia’s local boys, Alexander Calder, and his vast catalog of jewelry that he made over the course of his career.  Though known primarily as a sculptor and as the inventor of the mobile, his jewelry making, just from the few pictures [...]

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Let’s play Twister, let’s play Risk;

If you’re in New York over the next two days, try to stop by Rockefeller Center, as the artist Chris Burden has created a 65-foot skyscraper out of roughly a million stainless steel pieces that are modeled after Erector Set parts:

Given that the Erector Set was invented here in New Haven, can Mr. Burden please [...]

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Architects may come and architects may go and never change your point of view. When I run dry, I stop awhile and think of you;

There was a huge rash of deaths on Monday, between Bo Diddley, Yves Saint Laurent, and Anne D’Harnoncourt, that I feel compelled to write something about it.
–Wait–who was that third person, you ask?  Well, I’ll get to that.
It always makes me sad whenever one mentions the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the first association that [...]

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Arial is not Helvetica;

Yes, it’s another font post, but it’s so much more than that:
An exhibit devoted to linking science, art, design and even commerce?  I am so there–the website alone is profiling some 300 projects (50 not featured in the exhibition itself) across various categories.  Between this and the color exhibit I previously mentioned, expect many future [...]

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