look

Every single time we have looked at images together, my boss (senior curator at the hmsg) firmly reminds me to look at the art. Look for patterns. Look for visual comparisons. Make connections that cannot necessarily be made with words. One of my favorite things about the study of art is the ability to understand expression without language.

 

Shkolnik 1910s The Provinces

These images come from an exhibition of modern Russian art - they are images that were not available internationally under Stalin because they were considered too radical and they are often still mysterious and difficult to obtain. The catalog is organized so that viewers may visually understand the origins of Russian modernism and the connections between Russian folklife and Russia art.

hint: if you don't see it, look at the hats.

quote of the day

When one ceases to feel, I am of the opinion that one should keep quiet. And I would like it understood that I am not accusing or condemning lack of originality as such. I am only saying that I do not take particular note of the empty moments of my life, that it may be unworthy for any man to crystallize those which seem to him to be so. I shall, with your permission, ignore the description of that room, and many more like it.

André Breton, on Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

quote of the day

On Helter Skelter: LA art in the 90s:

It was worth it. It was one hell of a night. We had some very interesting people show up. We had some weird people show up. We even had a woman jumping out of a trash can every so often completely naked.

                    Richard Koshalek, HMSG Director

ahh

There is free art being handed out in London? Please someone get me one of these.

taco wednesday

weekend no. 1

Hello, 602.

It was 97 and sunny, but we were there for the goal.

AJ is a stud, which almost made up for not seeing Colbert.

Hello, delicious.

Letters to People Who Hate Me

A project by Catherine Soto, 2009.

I have known these people but I no longer speak to most of them. I wrote these letters to seek resolve for myself and to unburden emotions I cannot share with these people. 

quote of the day

Foggy Bottom... I always felt like it sounded like a gay man's disease. 'Oh, yeah that guy. He's got Foggy Bottom.'

home for a minute

The last picture that I took in London, of my favorite tea spot. I ended up ordering a tea pot that they carry for myself by the British designer Nick Munro.

Upon arrival back at home I quickly realized that my strawberries were in need of picking. My neighbor warned me that it would be a fruitful year and she was absolutely right. The day before I left yielded an entire pot of delicious red berries, warm from the sun and ripe to eat.

I also made a dress. It was supposed to be easy. This part was not. It went something like this: insert pins in fabric and elastic, match pins, stretch elastic band to fit to fabric, attempt to use hands - a foot apart - to navigate in a straight line, repeat, repeat, repeat. It felt like trying to hold magnets apart.