banquet

polina raiko

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and again.

your drawing weekly

i have become addicted to the subscription drawing service, your drawing weekly. every week artist sydney hermant posts a new digital drawing (which can be yours with a certificate of authenticity for an entire $1, or $51 for a year long subscription).

her drawings are beautiful, her writing smart and funny. happiness!

we love kid icarus

 

 

we love  kid icarus in toronto's kensington market, the tiniest screen printing studio ever. great supporters of banquet, today is their big moving day to larger quarters down the street, and they've made this sweet video to spread the gospel.

julie morstad at bau xi

the beautiful and talented julie morstad has some new work at bau xi, opening tonight.

it's really, really, really good...

gloria

gloria vanderbuilt must be freaking out over givenchy's resort collection...

(note especially the lacquered patchwork floor)

edouard vuillard

i keep thinking about the vuillard show we saw at the jewish museum while we were in new york. his murals, and early work with les nabis, and especially his mix of patterns. it was so unexpectedly beautiful, i am still buzzing weeks later.

Peter Erskine's "Spectrum of Time"

"Spectrum of Time" is a permanent rainbow sundial calendar installation... Hour and month lines painted on the walls and floor of the 40' X 40' X 40' industrial museum space mark the hours, summer and winter solstices, and the spring and autumn equinoxes with astronomical accuracy. A 30' X 30' cross of solar spectrum light powered by the rotation and tilt of the earth tells the time and date. On cloudy days a laser pointer driven by a solar tracking program fills in for the rainbow.

from here.

 

gijs frieling

when i buy my farm i will hire gijs fireling to come and paint all the outbuildings for me.

(and he can collaborate with dries van noten on some work clothes for feeding chickens, mucking out barns etc etc.)

 

jil sander and baltimore

i loved raf simon's farewell collection for jil sander, but what sent me over the moon were the flowers, from baltimore in antwerp -

amazing what putting something in a glass vitrine does...

images via here and here.