Back in the spring, the weather in Córdoba was a bit more… fresquita.
From this May’s patio festival: Contemporary art in 16 patios of Córdoba.
El Patio de mi Casa / The Sky within my House PART 1 from Córdoba 2016 on Vimeo.
EDIT: The second part was recently added here.
Pipas/Semillas de girasol. Sunflower seeds.
Video of sunflower fields between El Carpio and Pedro Abad in Córdoba province, Spain. [via notascordobesas]
“My dear chap, you have to learn to live with the darkness outside
just as you have learned to live with the darkness inside, now,
please get up and put the flashlight back in your pocket…”
All The Names, José Saramago (November 16, 1922 – June 18, 2010)
Louise Bourgeois (December 25, 1911 – May 31, 2010)
Gordon Lankton modestly introduced himself as “the collector”. He said he likes to come to the museum in the afternoon to meet the patrons and answer questions.
Related: Lankton on Managing a Plastics Extrusion Operation in Moscow
Registration opened and filled completely this past weekend.
Spectate in style “…please, no beastly denim.”
10 April 2010.
Wrapping up the week with that large Gabriel Orozco exhibit at the MOMA (through March 1).
A glimpse into the workings of a really cool brain.
Maria, Maria, Maria
1992. Phone book page with erasures, 11 x 9 1/8″ (27.9 x 23.2 cm).
(Like that Tom T. Hall tune, Tulsa Telephone Book… “Readin’ that Tulsa telephone book can drive a guy insane, ‘specially when the girl you’re lookin’ for has no last name…”)
Still on display for another month is the Iris Apfel exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass.
Creative uses, things used as other things. An eye for possibilities. And an incredibly strong neck.
Bird vessel used as pendant. Large hollowed nuts as bracelets.
The William Blake show at the Morgan closed yesterday.
Fortunately, the exhibition remains online as part of the permanent collection.
Behemoth and Leviathan from The Book of Job (1805-1810)
Pen and black ink, gray wash, and watercolor, over traces of graphite
