freakiest photo in NY Times ever!

"My one-month-old daughter, Sasha, relaxes in our bay-view fireplace room at the Aerie House and Beach Club."
Photo: Matt Gross for The New York Times

Goodness, almost spit out my morning coffee!

OP-ED // Winter

Did anyone else catch that Op-Ed piece Kara Walker did for the Times today? I didn't know that Kara was a "contributor" to the paper in that sense. Why aren't there more art editorials by local artists in more papers....hello, LA Times?

Kara Walker, "Four Seasons, Winter of Contentment." Paper and graphite, courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., 2008 /// NY Times

easy as pie

let's go to ny and see what's shakin'

thanks to nytimes for helping us west coasters pretend we are there.

now, only if there was a comprehensive art site that updated current shows (with a map) and be as easy as a click to view a sneak peek of the current show. so, if you are in la and can be the web genius/builder give me a call because I don't see anything of the sort out here.

artist dwelling

rita ackermann


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sarah sze


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mary heilmann

story via nytimes magazine - artful lodgers

image that isn't art but is

isn't this image great!
pic from nytimes.

your own personal smoking station

The smoking booths at Frieze Art Fair by artist Norma Jeane (pic nytimes)

Review of Frieze by Roberta here

Exhibit Y

Curators as Models - via The Moment

Yohji Yamamoto

spring/08

Public Art, Eyesore to Eye Candy - ny times by roberta smith

But over the past 15 years public sculpture — that is, static, often figurative objects of varying sizes in outdoor public spaces — has become one of contemporary art’s more exciting areas of endeavor and certainly its most dramatically improved one.