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13 OCTOBER, 7PM: PERFORMANCE DDG interview
Artist Dan Graham, whose work was exhibited in Environmental Aesthetic at Storefront in 1986, in conversation with architectural historian and theorist Beatriz Colomina. Graham will show and discuss his most recent photographic work, a contemporary revisitation of his photographic documentation of New Jersey in the late Sixties.
making light
thx jimb
heartbreakers at club gibus paris
chinese rock
info (i saw 'em at maxes '78)
johny thunders ann arbour pt. 1 pt. 2
maxes nyc pt 1 pt 2 pt 3
MUSIC, architecture and art melded in a picture-perfect Modernist moment in 1957 every time abstract painter Karl Benjamin went to work. In the studio of his custom-built post-and-beam ranch that hewed closely to the airy Case Study model mastered by Pierre Koenig and Richard Neutra, Benjamin would huddle over his canvases to create vivid geometric compositions while playing and replaying Miles Davis' records on the hi-fi.
"I think I wore out two copies of 'Birth of the Cool,' " Benjamin recalls. "Miles' music spoke to me, spoke to my attitude, my outlook. In visual arts, negative area -- the space between things -- is very important, and with Miles, the space between the notes took on new meaning. This restrained lyricism moved me deeply. Of course you're not thinking about it at the time, but the music and the painting coincided." At 81, Benjamin could be seen as the venerable poster boy for the Orange County Museum of Art's new show "Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury." His sensibility is writ large in the exhibition, opening today, which celebrates the Modernist aesthetic as filtered through paintings (Benjamin's included), architecture, music, graphic design, decorative arts, furniture, film and animation produced by Southern California's creative community during the '50s.
Gathering more than 150 objects, "Cool" includes work from midcentury design polymaths Ray and Charles Eames as well as photographs by Julius Shulman, whose meticulous portraits of Case Study homes (built between 1945 and 1966 under the auspices of Arts & Architecture magazine) established Southern California as a breezy outpost of International Style.
Reinventing industrial landscapes
house with excavation in front
bob dylan approximately
Paul has been treated so badly,” says a woman whose Manhattan apartment was designed by Paul Rudolph, the Kentucky-born architect. She is referring to the indifference, and worse, that has greeted much of Rudolph’s architecture in the last three decades. Even before he died, of mesothelioma, in 1997, Rudolph was forced to travel to Asia to find clients. Since his death, several of his works in the United States have been demolished, and others are being threatened with the same fate. But inside this apartment, Rudolph is receiving the kind of treatment most architects can only dream of. The owners have kept the main rooms — completed almost four decades ago — exactly as they have been.from design times fall '07
these catalogs are always full of modern treasures
SOLLO RAGO Modern Auction
- Saturday/Sunday, October 27/28, 2007 at 12 pm
Download Session One PDF (6.7 MB)
Download Session Two PDF (4.2 MB)
Pre-order a print catalogue
catalogues mail/go online October 12
Previews begin 10/20
kodak bldg 50 rochester ny (photographic paper facility) imploded
fire towers for sale!
FFLA
downtown jc stinks
great places in america
golden era of country music photos. any bets on the high bid?
fall cider report
Today (october 5th), the apple cider season started. Penn Vermont Farm finished their first pressing of the year around 10:30 am. and by 11 they were hosing down the Cider House. It is before noon and I am having my first glass, not yet ice cold even though it was in the coldest part of the walk-in. It is incredible. I'm sure, the hogs will agree (see bottom photo)from adman
tent encampment
Herbert’s contribution to architectural criticism has not been fully measured. His opinions were often hyperbolic; his prose outrageous; the path of his thinking inimitably complex. Unforgettable samplers would have to include his comparing Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao to the “reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe,” and calling Zaha Hadid’s Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati “the most important American building to be completed since the end of the cold war.” Famously, he wrote positively in September 2002 that Daniel Libeskind’s tower proposal for Ground Zero “attains a perfect balance between aggression and desire,” only to switch allegiances five months later. As a newly converted partisan of the proposal by the team THINK, he wrote, “Daniel Libeskind's project for the World Trade Center site is a startlingly aggressive tour de force, a war memorial to a looming conflict that has scarcely begun.” A close reading—and no one more deserves a closer re-reading than Herbert—reveals that he has not really contradicted himself here but refined his opinion. To many, his views were inflammatory, even dangerous to architecture. “Whoopee,” he might have said. Has anyone else stirred up so much heated passion about cold bricks?
$1.5M marfa tx missile base
The Missile Base Infrastructure The Missile Base consists of 57 acres of real estate. The center secured portion of the property is protected by the original barbed-wire-topped chainlink fence. There is a paved road leading into the property with dual entry gates. Above ground is the original 40 X 100 shop building, two concrete targeting structures, two manufactured homes, two 8 X 8 X 40 storage containers, and the silo tops of the three missile silos, two antenna silos, one entry portal and a few other misc structures. Below ground is a huge complex consisting of 16 buildings and thousands of feet of connecting tunnels.via vz
tuxedo park ballroom
Architects and artists use drawing in the design process as a tool to express ideas. Drawing Architecture, an exhibition of more than 50 drawings from the L.J. Cella collection, is currently on display at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The exhibition features the drawings of contemporary architects and artists, from Frank Gehry to Modernist master Richard Neutra. The drawings range from scattered thoughts across a page ripped from a sketchbook to highly detailed architectural renderings. Each drawing is a look at different techniques in expression. The exhibition explores the process of design, rather than the final building form.
checkered past