October 2011
33 posts
“Home is where one starts from. As we grow older the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living. Not the intense moment isolated, with no before and after, but a lifetime burning in every moment and not the lifetime of one man only but of old stones that cannot be deciphered.”
—T. S. Eliot, from “East Coker” in The Four Quartets
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Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus (New York, 1923-1971) a révolutionné l’art de la photographie ; l’audace de sa thématique, aussi bien que son approche photographique ont donné naissance à une œuvre souvent choquante par sa pureté, par cette inébranlable célébration des choses telles qu’elles sont. Par son talent à rendre étrange ce que nous considérons comme extrêmement familier, mais aussi à dévoiler le...
I Want A Lea Stein Brooch!
Lea Stein (1931 —) is a French artist and accessories maker, known for her compressed plastic buttons, brooches and bracelets. She is often hailed as “the most notable and innovative designer of plastic jewelry of the 20th century”.
Stein’s brooches feature animals, cars, household items, celebrities and people in a distinctive style, sometimes resembling Art Déco (which...
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog,...”
– Groucho Marx
Spike Jonze: Mourir Auprès de Toi
The Celebrated Filmmaker and Designer Olympia Le-Tan Co-create a Tale to Pierce the Heart
Designer Olympia Le-Tan’s embroidered clutch-bags spring to life in director Spike Jonze’s tragicomic stop-motion animation Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side). On a shelf in famed Parisian bookstore Shakespeare and Company, the star-crossed love story of a klutzy skeleton and his...
"I Am A Deeply Superficial Person"
Andy Warhol
Patti (again)
STICKY FINGERS
OFF THE SHELF
by Patti Smith
OCTOBER 10, 2011
When I was ten years old, I lived with my family in a small ranch house in rural South Jersey. I often accompanied my mother to the A. & P. to buy groceries. We did not have a car, so we walked, and I would help her carry the bags.
My mother had to shop very carefully, as my father was on strike. She was a waitress, and her...
