a drinking song

Escape Goat

Raisin at Lucy Vincent Beach

Word Art

Bowling

 

I forgot how much I liked Katherine Bowling (till now.) Her paintings are so dreamy. 

I want to live...

here. Or at least visit.

Summer's End!

From photographer Gabriela Herman's blog. Lucy Vincent Beach on Martha's Vineyard. Out with a bang!

9th Street

I love how the Jefferson Market Library looks wrapped in scaffolding.

The Ring

The Ring, or "das rheingold" opens on September 27th to begin the Met season. The Met is saying this is the most complicated (and dangerous!) production ever put on its stage. "A new Wagner “Ring” cycle that involves a leviathan set, scenery almost entirely based on intricate computerized projections and a few age-old theatrical techniques." OK, I'm in. NY Times.

The Freebie

If you live in NY go see The Freebie today! Last day in theaters. Watch the (great) trailer here.

"A young couple decides to give each other a night off, no questions asked."

Angelika Film Center New York - 18 West Houston Street, New York, NY
12:00  2:00  4:00  6:00  8:00  10:00pm

*From the Sundance website: The Freebie is an insightful, humorous look at love, sustaining relationships, and the awkwardness of monogamy when the haze of lust has faded.

Thanks brother!

Photo by Tolya Ashe

Radical Invention!

My favorite painting from the Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 exhibit at MoMA.

What's with all the screaming?

Jennifer in front of "Voice Piece for Soprano" by Yoko Ono, 1961

MoMA

Nouvel View

Floating tree boxes in the entry courtyard of Jean Nouvel's recently completed residential tower, 100 11th ave.

Gagosian

this is a painting! (i think...)

Another art post. One thing that seems to have remained constant in all my work is the subject of light, and how to form paint to apprehend light.
--Dike Blair

Hope.

Hope Atherton

I love this painting by Hope Atherton at the Bortolami Gallery's current exhibition "Redressing."  Definitely check out the show with work by 50 artists. Read this post on their new space (pre-reinaldo.)

Also, Hope is rad.

Guest appearance by...

Our friend sent us a photo from his front row seat at the Proenza Schouler show yesterday. Unbeknown to him was the fact that Terry Richardson was sitting right next to him. Our friend doesn't know who Terry is. How does one explain this (WARNING! VULGAR!)

Meeting Room?

Falltime

Highline

(I guess everyone agrees that fall is in the air.)

Yum!

Good enough to chew? or not.
Close up of Dan Cole's gum painting at Gagosian Gallery

Jenni Kayne Spring 2011

inspiration board

It's Friday

Fire Island surf for the last days of summer

Splash!

Painting by Joanne Ashe
(bug by unknown)

Time to look at art:

Tomorrow: Dan Colen

Tonight: Jeff Bark

Shantytown (chilmark) MA

Designed and Built by Tolya Ashe on Monday September 6, 2010

Bad Romance

New favorite nail color.

Venice

New Palette

Abandoned Motel in Gila Bend, AZ
Photo by Carlos Moore, "Big C."

Production Designer (and friend) Carlos Moore was inspired by (and asked for a photo of) my running shoes in LA because he wanted to use the color palette (red/blue/yellow) on his new show. In return, he sent me this photo with the attached quote: 
Like you, i'm always looking for, photographing and archiving little moments (one never knows when the perfect palette or arrangement of objects will reveal themselves and solve the design challenge of the moment.)

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010

Trassolar & Tetsuo Kondo's made swirling steel ramps to walk up high on and into a cloud of saturated air and condensation droplets. Cloud Spaces!