War photographer, artist's muse and adventurer Lee Miller photographed by Man Ray in 1930.
Monday
Monday portrait: Lee Miller by Man Ray
War photographer, artist's muse and adventurer Lee Miller photographed by Man Ray in 1930.
Detroit x2
Photographer and Detroit local Kevin Bauman has spent years documenting the city's abandoned homes. In contrast to Bauman's poignant images, fellow Detroit artist Tyree Guyton reinvigorates the city's deserted homes with blasts of colour and kitsch. Guyton's weird and wonderful Heidelberg Project stretches across two blocks, transforming them into a community art space.
See more here.
Kusama eat your heart out.
Heidelberg Project images courtesy Flickr: jbcurio
Red Arrows!
The Red Arrows flew past us this lunch time and we lurched out of the window to get this shot. Congratulations to all our Olympians and Paralympians!
Monday portrait: Andy Warhol by Bert Nienhuis
This week's offering is photographer Bert Nienhuis' portrait of Andy Warhol looking both sedate and shocked.
(We had him down as unshockable.)
Taken in 1980 when the artist was 52.
Damien Hirst umbrella
Beautiful, amore, gasp, eyes going into the top of the head and fluttering (painting)...
The umbrella we made for the Hirst exhibition at Tate Modern was featured in Stylist magazine's art special!
John Stezaker
Congratulations to John Stezaker, one of our favourite artists, who was been nominated for this year's Deutsche Bรถrse photography prize despite not exactly being a photographer...
Love, 2006
Mask X, 1982
Images courtesy the Whitechapel Gallery.All nominees are currently on display at the Photographer's Gallery.
Love, 2006
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| Siren Song, 2011 |
Mask X, 1982Images courtesy the Whitechapel Gallery.All nominees are currently on display at the Photographer's Gallery.
Wednesday
arRIBA!
Our collaboration with Rick Mather Architects for the shop design at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum has won a RIBA prize!
Thursday
Monday
War Horse goose
After a lengthy development process the rolling flapping and squawking (if only in our heads) goose puppet is on sale! Devised by Sato Hisao and produced by Kit Grover it is £30 at the National Theatre / online.
Cerith Wyn Wyn Evans
Pleasingly, the first person that comes up when you google 'Wyn Evans' is not the mustachioed Welsh artist Cerith but Cambridge Astrophysics professor Wyn.
We wonder how they'd get along...
We wonder how they'd get along...
Thursday
Site of the month: Kiosk Kiosk
KIOSK KIOSK is a New York based shop that sells products the owners have picked up on their travels. It is truly worthy of the overused term 'eclectic'.
IS GREAT BECAUSE they sell pretty much anything. That is not to say their tastes aren't discerning, far from it. Sourcing products from around the world, Kiosk Kiosk are particularly good at finding unusual objects that are often beautiful and occasionally practical. Expect to find multi-coloured pipe cleaners, a traditional Japanese carpenters knife and 'Nun calms', a German remedy to alleviate nerves.
Arguably the best thing about the site is the highly entertaining approach to product descriptions, Kiosk Kiosk subscribe firmly to the 'why use one word when you can use 5?' school of copywriting. We would particularly recommend the $28 fly whip description HERE.
OUR FAVOURITE PRODUCT IS the American Lottery ticket (actually from Sweden) which is as beautiful as it is useless to the average person. Wouldn't it make a fantastic necklace?
The Kiosk motel-style key ring came a close second. It is stamped with their details and a promise to guarantee postage.
The theory is that if you lose your keys, some kindly soul will pop your keys in the post, you call KK and eventually you get your keys back. Very clever.
IS GREAT BECAUSE they sell pretty much anything. That is not to say their tastes aren't discerning, far from it. Sourcing products from around the world, Kiosk Kiosk are particularly good at finding unusual objects that are often beautiful and occasionally practical. Expect to find multi-coloured pipe cleaners, a traditional Japanese carpenters knife and 'Nun calms', a German remedy to alleviate nerves.
Arguably the best thing about the site is the highly entertaining approach to product descriptions, Kiosk Kiosk subscribe firmly to the 'why use one word when you can use 5?' school of copywriting. We would particularly recommend the $28 fly whip description HERE.
OUR FAVOURITE PRODUCT IS the American Lottery ticket (actually from Sweden) which is as beautiful as it is useless to the average person. Wouldn't it make a fantastic necklace?
The Kiosk motel-style key ring came a close second. It is stamped with their details and a promise to guarantee postage.
The theory is that if you lose your keys, some kindly soul will pop your keys in the post, you call KK and eventually you get your keys back. Very clever.
Monday
Vanity of Small Differences
Grayson Perry's latest show has just opened at the Victoria Miro gallery.
His modern take on Hogarth's Rake's Progress charts the rise and fall of 'Tim Rakewell' - from humble beginnings to enormous wealth and celebrity to a grisly death.
The tapestries are littered with modern indicators of class and style, as in traditional Vanitas paintings, and many references to early Renaissance artworks. In the third tapestry the poses of Tim (who bears more than a passing resemblance to nineties class-investigator Jarvis Cocker, see Common People) and his girlfriend echo Masaccio's Expulsion c1425, left.
Look out for an upcoming Vanity of Small Differences-related project from Kit Grover!
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