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...the furniture of Finland's very own Alvar Aalto!
visiting helsinki
July 08, 2017
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There was also an exhibit about...
visiting helsinki
July 08, 2017
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This was one of my favorites. (Vilho Lampi - Nocturne 1930)
visiting helsinki
July 08, 2017
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Love the light in this one.
visiting helsinki
July 08, 2017
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I took this picture because I thought he looked like Amy Albano's husband Matt!
visiting helsinki
July 08, 2017
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visiting helsinki
July 08, 2017
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After lunch, I walked over to the Helsinki Art Museum.
visiting helsinki
July 08, 2017
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Lots of paintings I liked by painters I'd never seen!
visiting helsinki
July 08, 2017
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...but when you looked closely, all of the white circuits were FILLED WITH LIVING ANTS. (Anicka Yi, Life is Cheap
the may roundup
May, 2017
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They also had a really wild contempory installation. It was an entire room filled with these giant, intricate circuit-board looking patterns...
the may roundup
May, 2017
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Here are some things...
the may roundup
May, 2017
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On Friday afternoon I met up with Gurj, Sarah and Jared uptown to celebrate Gurj's BIRTHDAY! After a fancy lunch...
the may roundup
May, 2017
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...we hit the Guggenheim to see some art.
the may roundup
May, 2017
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the may roundup
May, 2016
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They also had a bunch of paintings done by Lama Gyurme, a Buddhist artist who immigrated to Sante Fe from Tibet!
stacy and liz get married in new mexico
March 05, 2016
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Walking the dead back to the cementerio after the party is over. See you next year!
stacy and liz get married in new mexico
March 05, 2016
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Diorama of Christian Heaven & Hell.
stacy and liz get married in new mexico
March 05, 2016
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stacy and liz get married in new mexico
March 05, 2016
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In the afternoon we walked over to a museum and got our art on.
the december roundup
December, 2013
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...Chaim Soutine's Order out of Chaos. (This was excellent! I wish I could've taken some photos in the gallery).

I also saw Monet's huge installation of waterlillies, Les Nymphaes.
paris
December 16, 2012
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Portrait of Dali by Philippe Halsman entitled...
paris
December 16, 2012
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...and you see a caricature of the artist! This form of graphical projection is called Anamorphosis.
paris
December 16, 2012
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I also really liked this painting At first glance it looks like some kind of mosquito-like insect, but then you notice the metal cylinder...
paris
December 16, 2012
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Knee-key, bottle-leg, lobster-claw detail.
paris
December 16, 2012
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paris
December 16, 2012
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The sculpture installations are pretty great.
paris
December 16, 2012
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I'd never really gotten to see all that much of Dali's work.
paris
December 16, 2012
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I liked a lot of the stuff they had at this museum.
paris
December 16, 2012
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Maybe I'm just partial to the captioned-photo format, though.
on tour with all-american rejects
September 21, 2012
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Strong stuff.
on tour with all-american rejects
September 21, 2012
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My favorite thing there was Carrie Mae Weems' "From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried" (1995-96)
on tour with all-american rejects
September 21, 2012
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This entire room was filled with TVs that are making crazy patterns. Megatron Matrix by Nam June Paik. Not for the epileptic.
the april roundup
April, 2012
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Julian Stanczak.
steve and rachels wedding in ohio
August 26, 2011
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steve and rachels wedding in ohio
August 26, 2011
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Close Close.
the may roundup
May, 2011
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Reflection on the glasses? Cmon!
the may roundup
May, 2011
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Even when you're standing RIGHT IN FRONT OF IT, it still looks like a photo and it's HUGE.
the may roundup
May, 2011
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Chuck Close's stuff needs to be seen in person.
the may roundup
May, 2011
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Vin & Pollock.
the may roundup
May, 2011
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I love this compound-eye polished mirror.
the may roundup
May, 2011
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#NYFW
the may roundup
May, 2011
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ANALOG PIRACY!
the may roundup
May, 2011
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The Glorification of the Royal Hungarian Saints.
the may roundup
May, 2011
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Biss, I'm trying to feather this letter.
the may roundup
May, 2011
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Annoyed close up.
the may roundup
May, 2011
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I love the cracked-paint patterns that are revealed when you view an old painting from an angle.
the may roundup
May, 2011
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Samurai masks.
the may roundup
May, 2011
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Terrifying.
the may roundup
May, 2011
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I like this one.
the may roundup
May, 2011
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Did you know that many human-form artifacts depict ritual body postures that induce trances & alternative states of consciousness?
the may roundup
May, 2011
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And this.
honeymoon in bali part three
September 09, 2009
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Loved this.
honeymoon in bali part three
September 09, 2009
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And this.
honeymoon in bali part three
September 09, 2009
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Lots of really interesting paintings like this.
honeymoon in bali part three
September 09, 2009
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I liked the "sans ladder" version much more.
honeymoon in bali part three
September 09, 2009
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This?
honeymoon in bali part three
September 09, 2009
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Mustache and a dress. No big deal.
honeymoon in bali part three
September 09, 2009
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Not so much.
honeymoon in bali part three
September 09, 2009
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This painting looked a lot like Pacung.
honeymoon in bali part three
September 09, 2009
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And then on Sunday, I Paul invited me out again to check out the "Beautiful Losers" art exhibit at one of the local SF museums. I asked him for the address and he was like "Oh, it's on Mission and 3rd St." I was like "Oh, new place is 2 streets over and 13 blocks away - so I'll walk over and see you in like 15 minutes." Yeah, too bad that's an estimate based on the size of city blocks in NYC - turns out that "blocks" in SF are like a 1/4 each and so it ended up taking me just about an hour to get there. Hahaha. Doh.
the september roundup: life in san francisco
September, 2004
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After Lee's gallery, we went across the museum and check out Roger Hior's work - he takes metal objects (like this BMW 7-Series engine) and dips them in a copper-sulfate bath
trip to cali part 1: nyc to la
December 10, 2003
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Pretty neat, right? You LOVE art, I know.
trip to cali part 1: nyc to la
December 10, 2003
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...but then I got caught taking sneaky pics and I had to put my camera away. Her most recent sculpture is some of the most beautiful, striking art I've ever seen and I the exhibit completely overwhelmed. I think I heard that this entire 150+ piece show is coming to New York City this summer - if it does, you should go see it.
trip to cali part 1: nyc to la
December 10, 2003
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On Friday morning, Jordana (who is a painter) took me to the Hammer Museum to see Lee Bontecou's "Retrospective." Here's a cool, drippy permanent installation in the museum's lobby.
trip to cali part 1: nyc to la
December 10, 2003
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She become known for creating these super-creepy canvas and wire sculptures.
trip to cali part 1: nyc to la
December 10, 2003
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I managed to capture a few pics of these scultpures from the mid-seventies, where she was going through a period of creating all these crazy, Egyptian scarab beetle-like scultures...
trip to cali part 1: nyc to la
December 10, 2003
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These pics are all sorta shitty and totally don't do her work justice - they're absolutely striking in person. (You're not supposed to take pics in the museam and I was forced to snap all these ninja style when the guards weren't looking.) Anyway, towards the end of the 60s, Lee started moving away from the scary-looking scultures that she was known for and started more organic flower-like sculptures that were met with tepid critical reactions. So in the early 70s she stopped exhibiting and pretty much dropped out of the art scene. Well it turns out she's spent the last thirty years working and all of the stuff she'd been working on (that nobody's seen until just recently) is completely amazing.
trip to cali part 1: nyc to la
December 10, 2003
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I love going to museums, but enjoy them infinitely more if I'm there with someone who knows alot about what we're seeing and can contextualize it for me. Jordana is one of those people.
trip to cali part 1: nyc to la
December 10, 2003