i was delighted with the ‘t’ in a recent NYTimes magazine. What a lovely piece of embroidery from Jacob Magraw
shell 'n harp
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Posted April 30th, 2012xenobia bailey
Posted March 28th, 2012
Just down the hill from my house is this museum. Right now they have an exhibit of crochet work by the artist Xenobia Bailey. I went last week with a friend. The exhibit is call “The Aesthetics of Funk”. It was very funky indeed and kind of made your eyes swirl about in your head. Colors put together that I would never have come up with. Interlocking, overlapping and underlapping circles and stripes and zig-zags. In the corner of one room was a television screen playing footage from a ’70′s music show. Barry White was looking gorgeous in a spangled-collared tuxedo, singing “Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe” in that unmistakeable gravelly, sexy voice of his while the coolest people in the world hussled around the dance floor in shiny hipsters and big hair – and that’s just the men. Children had been invited to write the definition of funk on post-its. “Funk is love!”
wooly head
Posted March 16th, 2012
vivian maier
Posted July 1st, 2011
You have to check out this site. Her photos are so powerful. My friend Parker just updated the site and turned me on to her. The image of the old man on the park bench makes me think of ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” which I have just finished reading. The kid in the last image makes me think of me. I had specs like that when I was about his age. Way to make you get picked on at school…and they didn’t fix my eyes.