Alighiero Boetti Retrospective at Museum of Modern Art

Most pleasant surprises:

'For me the work of the embroidered Mappa is the ultimate in beauty. For that work I did nothing, chose nothing, in the sense that: the world is made as it is, not as I designed it, the flags are those that exist, and I did not design them; in short, I did absolutely nothing; when the basic idea, the concept, emerges everything else requires no choosing' (A. Boetti quoted in Alberto Boatto, Alighiero & Boetti, Ravenna 1984, p. 122).

Link to NYTimes Review

And in Chelsea

1) Leo Koenig, Julika Rudelius, http://www.rudelius.org/
2) "Everyday Abstract--Abstract Everyday," James Cohan, Gabriel Pionkowski is amazing

Shoebox Dwelling

One Space, Four Rooms — style and dignity in small spaces

RCA Architecture

New Royal College of Art dean of architecture Alex de Rijke will steer students away from proposing unrealisable “paper architecture” and instead focus on how their ideas could be built.

 In an interview with Dezeen at the RCA Show 2012 last month, de Rijke said: “Historically [at the RCA] there’s always been a very strong agenda on paper architecture – the speculative, the work that is provocative but not necessarily make-able.”

 In future, “Students will be encouraged to speculate not just about future uses or programmes or places, but actually speculate about how they will be built,” de Rijke says. “Material experiment will very much become part of the course.”

Nicholas O'Brien

A Temporary Memorial Project for Jobbers' Canyon Built with ConAgra Products

James Turrell Skypespace at Rice University

subway map bathroom tiling - information aesthetics

subway map bathroom tiling - information aesthetics

Nate Page - House Beautiful

Suburban Reflecting Pool, 2012
Exhibition in a 1956 ranch style home on a cul-de-sac in the San Gabriel Valley. Above Nate Page's intervention with a mirror.

Richard Galpin

peeled photographs by richard galpin

Rhizome | Screen. Image. Text.

Rhizome | Screen. Image. Text.

Foreclosure Aftermath

Foreclosure Aftermath: What We Leave Behind by S.J. Dunning — YES! Magazine

Eija-Liisa Ahtila

Art News | New Films At SKMU In Norway | Art Knowledge News

DODGE Gallery: Twisted Sisters

Looks promising. Good roster. Hopefully will make it to NYC before it ends.
Twisted Sister at DODGE gallery, May 19–June 23, 2012.

Chair Shell

SIMPARCH, Academy Records, Chris Vorhees and the students of Depauw

The Rainbow Behind the Junk

Chris Vorhees and SIMPARCH, “Uppers and Downers,” 2012.

The Rainbow Behind the Junk

Sophie Erlund at Art Cologne 2012 - YouTube

Our friend Sophie talking about personified architectural structures. Love them.

Sophie Erlund at Art Cologne 2012 - YouTube

vacant NL

vacant NL - dutch pavilion at venice architecture biennale 2010

Elisabeth Condon

Enjoy my friend Elisabeth Condon's blog, especially in anticipation of her upcoming exhibition at Dorsh Gallery, Miami. Opens May 11. http://elisabethcondon.blogspot.com/

Breathtaking recent work above...

Keystone Habit Transformed Housing Color

I'm listening to the audiobook The Power of Habits by Charles Duhigg, and he talks about how Alcoa's focus one simple change, improvement of their safety record, transformed the company into a efficient profit-making machine. An unexpected result, flexibility in the coloring of manufactured aluminum siding for houses, helped to reduce waste, lift profits, and exemplified better communication patterns.

Review of the book on Huffington Post
Charles Duhigg: How 'Keystone Habits' Transformed a Corporation

Director Amanda Pope

Quote of the day from director Amanda Pope:

"You need to develop your ability to go and do the most difficult thing in front of you because it’s a more interesting way to live."

From a panel on women in the film biz from the 2010 Santa Barbara Independent Film Festival.

Grayson Cox, The Water is Fine

Our friend Grayson Cox at Gasser & Grunert on 19th Street in Chelsea. So freakin' smart...