the curators closet

Javier Pérez Carroña Murano glass and stuffed crows

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 21:12:38 -0400

Javier Pérez

Carroña

Murano glass and stuffed crows

Springtime makes me crave soft, rustic rooms and a warm breeze.

Tue, 07 May 2013 21:29:55 -0400

Springtime makes me crave soft, rustic rooms and a warm breeze.

Check, check it out

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 20:47:37 -0400

Rad site by a rad chick I know and a review I wrote, for it, of a local exhibition. More of this to come.

Giuseppe Licari Roots from above. Humus: the layer of soil...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:30:35 -0500

Giuseppe Licari

Roots from above.

Humus:

the layer of soil essential for the growth of plants and trees.

From Christopher Joanssen Devourde⋅vour (d`-vour) to eat up...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:30:20 -0500

From Christopher Joanssen

Devour

de⋅vour (d`-vour)

to eat up greedily.
to destroy,consume, or waste.
to take in eagerly.
to prey upon voraciously.

“To eat is to appropriate by destruction”. - Jean-Paul Sartre (French existentialist and writer, 1905-1980).

Not planets but…… used frying pans.

Amazing quilted maps. Tuck yourself into New York (top) and...

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:30:42 -0500

Amazing quilted maps.

Tuck yourself into New York (top) and Paris (bottom) nightly

DIY Kits too…many more cities to discover. Check them out here.

I picture this hallway opening up to a room, bathed in light...

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:30:24 -0500

I picture this hallway opening up to a room, bathed in light from two large bay windows.

Raw wood and that chandelier

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:30:00 -0500

Raw wood and that chandelier

Winter dressing can be very tricky. How to bundle up, stay warm...

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:17:39 -0500

Winter dressing can be very tricky. How to bundle up, stay warm and still look chic.

Ulyana Seergenko shows us how its done outside the Spring 2013 Couture shows.

I know I say this a lot but… she really rocks.

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:30:40 -0500

I know I say this a lot but… she really rocks.

or this.

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 12:30:36 -0500

or this.

This would be fun to wear on NYE.

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:30:35 -0500

This would be fun to wear on NYE.

Salon Style

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 19:49:32 -0500

Salon Style

Nicola Samori, Onoufrios (2011) - Oil on wood Samorì’s works...

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 21:49:20 -0500

Nicola Samori, Onoufrios (2011) - Oil on wood

Samorì’s works often refer to Italian 17th century painting by the selection of motives as well as by his painting technique. Still lifes, portraits, devotional paintings and landscapes develop through enormous technical skills over a long span of time and through numerous layers of paint on copper, wood or canvas. But Samorì withholds the imaginary „finished“ painting from us and reverses the process of origin drastically: He purposely destroys the image surface, attacks selected parts with a palette-knife, with diluent or with his bare hands until he tears off the (oil-)skin from his painted figures. Physicalness and the body are most important for Samorì’s paintings and the process of skinning stresses this importance. Samorì builds up his „body of work“ with an abundance of art-historical references and masses of paint just to forcefully destroy them. By focusing on the materiality and artificiality of the image, Samorì negates classical represenation and questions painting itself.
To prepare for his first German solo exhibition at Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, Samorì moved his studio from Italy to Berlin temporarily. All works for „Imaginifragus“ were finished in Berlin.

Berlin Light Festival

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:30:47 -0500

Berlin Light Festival

This is how you re-wear clothing.

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 12:32:00 -0500

This is how you re-wear clothing.

I need to up my shoe game. Kelly Wearstler’s closet via...

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 23:01:00 -0500

I need to up my shoe game.

Kelly Wearstler’s closet via The Coveteur

OBAMA WINS! Barack Obama at Terry Richardson’s studio.

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:41:05 -0500

OBAMA WINS!

Barack Obama at Terry Richardson’s studio.

"And what is it that connects Vermeer, Palladio, Bach, Cage? It’s that same quality I’ve..."

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:30:33 -0500

“And what is it that connects Vermeer, Palladio, Bach, Cage? It’s that same quality I’ve been talking about. It’s neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not cynical, it can’t be planned and it probably can’t even be described. It’s just good.”

- I Have Nothing to Say and I’m Saying it, Conversation between Gerhard Richter and Nicholas Serota, Spring 2011

Gerhard Richter - Overpainted photographs

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:30:34 -0500

Gerhard Richter - Overpainted photographs