Category: Art
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Planning Love: V-Day Cards
WRITTEN BY ALINE FADER Some west coast love has infiltrated the internet in the form of the ‘Planning Love’ site that has Valentine’s Day cards for planners, architects, etc… Check it out, they are quite clever! I am hoping to see one that is a classier version of this:
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60 Mies van der Rohe Haus
This was my first visit to Berlin, and I was thinking about Bauhaus and Mies. Inevitably, the next morning I decided to visit Mies’s Lemke House at the outskirts of Berlin. I arrived there after a U-Bahn ride and a bus connection and was surprised how unassuming and humble that house looked from the street. But when you enter the…
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“The Bean” by Anish Kapoor
Bean or Cloud Gate in Chicago’s Millennium Park is a piece of sculpture that is fast becoming an iconic symbol for that City. It is designed by Indian born, British sculptor Anish Kapoor. Its official name is Cloud Gate but everyone calls it “The Bean”. People seems to like this sculpture, it is shaped like…
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EVENT: From Memory 9/13/13-10/19/13
WRITTEN BY ALINE FADER From Memory is an exhibit of drawings (from memory) of the United States by famous artists. It is on view at Sean Kelly gallery (475 Tenth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan) from September 13 through October 19, with an opening reception on September 12 from 6–8pm. The drawings were done in the early…
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Juzcar: The Smurf Town
Hollywood takes over the small town of Juzcar and paints it blue to promote their film The Smurfs 2. See Metro Square http://metrosquare.blogspot.com/2011/12/juzcar-smurf-town.html#more In 2011, Sony Pictures convinced the residents of Juzcar, a small town in Malaga Spain, to let them paint the entire town blue including the town church and gravestones, to celebrate the…
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Urban Trauma: How the City Deals with Disaster
The presence of trauma in the arts is nothing new. Its creation is therapeutic, and its legacy is even stronger: trauma art is some of the most famous artistic creations because they give meaning to an insurmountable feeling that is felt by an entire population. These people, who come together over the art, form a…