tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37190816802342029682024-03-14T08:32:37.734-04:00ALL MY EYESand Betty Martin*Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger449125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719081680234202968.post-48997058038483550142016-01-01T15:19:00.001-05:002016-01-01T15:23:13.396-05:00A Gift From Google Search<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Unless Google comes up with a reverse search-page tool, I’ll never know what words yielded the above result. That was on February 7, 2012 ,and at the time, I thought it was hilarious, but way too silly to post.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By now we know that there is </span><span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">nothing</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> too silly to post and in this year of a possible Trump presidency, we also know that there is no such thing as “too silly.”</span></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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DATE: Christmas Day<br />
PLACE: 65th St. Transverse through Central Park.<br />
ODDITY: One very confused forsythia in bloom<br />
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DATE: December 26th<br />
PLACE: East Side exit of the reservoir of in Central Park<br />
ODDITY: A riotous yellow bramble of blooming forsythia
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DATE: December 27th<br />
PLACE: East 61st Street<br />
ODDITY: Lovely pink blossoms above bulb-encrusted branches
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There is so much to post from my recent visit to Havana. My camera may have snapped away in real time, but sorting out the layered head-trip that is Cuba is taking real time. My mind was—and remains—truly blown by what lays a mere 45-minutes, by plane, from Miami.</div>
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Meanwhile, this gringa, remains quite stunned. (Deer-in-the-headlights of--dare I say--decades of vintage cars?)<br />
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Pinterest and Flickr are loaded with Havana’s signage and typography. It kind of makes me wonder why I even bothered to bring my camera. I just can’t help myself.<br />
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As for postal “letters from Havana,” don’t hold your breath. It’s been a solid month since our trip and not one piece of mail sent by any of our group has yet to arrive at a U.S. address.
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What a thrill to finally see <b><a href="http://susantammany.com/susantammany.com/Home.html">Susan Tammany</a></b>’s sets and costumes for the <b><a href="http://www.nycballet.com/">New York City Ballet’s </a></b>production of La Sylphide in all their gloriousness the other night.<br />
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Set in Scotland, the 1836 ballet by Danish choreographer August Bournonville, is a classic boy-meets-sylph-on-his-wedding-day story. Unable to resist her flirtation, the groom-to-be, James, a poet, chases the alluring wood nymph straight into her otherworldly forest habitat. Needless to say, it all comes to a tragic end when James attempts to possess the ethereal creature. Her capture, of course means her demise. The ballet ends with James collapsed in despair, and we can see, off in the distance, the wedding of his jilted fiancé to his best friend.<br />
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For Danish-born NYCB-master-in-chief Peter Martins, the ballet holds special significance. He writes in the program notes:<br />
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La Sylphide is the first ballet that I ever saw. I danced in it when I was a student at the Royal Danish Ballet School, and more than a decade later, I graduated to the role of James, the male lead. Working my way up through the various corps roles, I came to know this ballet very well, and whenever I look at the cozy domestic scene that provides the setting for Act I it is as if I’m staring into my own living room.</blockquote>
The costumes were produced from Tammany’s designs in the NYCB’s costume shop under the direction of Marc Happel.<br />
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The following photos are samples from some of the wonderful slideshows about the production from around the web and social media.<br />
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Dreamy as they are, I am definitely having a (slight) problem with these <a href="http://www.barneys.com/alex-katz-limited-edition-set-of-two-standard-pillowcases-504046270.html#utm_source=CHTAH&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20150520KATZ&email=lindaeckstein%40mac.com&listid=PSBNY9309&utm_content=3&start=3"><b>Alex Katz-imprinted pillowcases</b> </a>Barneys issued. With same-sex marriage front and center as an issue, it’s hard to know if this offering should be categorized as retro, dictatorial, or simply out of touch?<br />
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Did they miss <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/05/18/presiding-at-same-sex-wedding-ruth-bader-ginsburg-emphasizes-a-key-word/?_r=1"><b>Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg</b> </a>invoking the power vested in her by the Constitution of The United States, while officiating at last Sunday’s same-sex wedding in Washington D.C?<br />
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In this day and age these pillowcases should surely be available as two men, two females, or singly, even!<br />
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I wonder how their celebrated Creative Ambassador-at-Large, <b><a href="http://www.simondoonan.com/">Simon Doonan</a></b>, and hubby <b><a href="http://www.jonathanadler.com/">Jonathan Adler </a></b>would weigh in?
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I know. These calf weaners look exactly like medieval torture devices. Surely that is how they must feel to calf and mom. As if the being weaned isn't traumatic enough!<br />
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In no way a last-minute gift idea, but just a reminder that today is Mother’s Day.
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Some of these devices are embossed with brand names. The above model is a “Daisy.”<br />
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“Looking through whaling logbooks at the Providence library, my fingers went black from turning the pages. It was as though some small part of whaling had rubbed off on me, the soot from the try pots, fires that burned night and day. Melville called it “the left wing of the day of judgement”. The true history of American whaling is in those logbooks, and hundreds like them, written by the men who went to sea. Those pages hold the excitement of the hunt, the chase, the danger, as well as the boredom and near-constant longing for home, all of it the sum parts of whaling. </blockquote>
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I could never have been a whaler, but would love to have been aboard a whaleship in 1856, to see how it was done, meet those men, hear their stories, somehow get it all down in my own sketchbooks and journals, my fingers black from soot, as well as ink. </blockquote>
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To have put to sea, and hoped. </blockquote>
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Scott Kelley </blockquote>
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Peaks Island, Maine</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://scottkelleystudio.tumblr.com/">Scott Kelley’s</a></b> exquisite watercolors, the result of extensive research and extraordinary skill are evidence enough of a well-spent artist’s residency, albeit imaginary, aboard one of those 19th century whalers.<br />
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The paintings, which are mostly “excerpts” from said residency’s many "sketch-logbooks" are on view now at <a href="http://www.dowlingwalsh.com/represented-artists/scott-kelley/"><b>Dowling Walsh Gallery</b></a> in Rockland, Maine.<br />
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Meticulous portraits of whales, delicate renderings of their dramatic spouts, and identification charts of their fins and tails grace soot-smudged and, in cases, severely foxed “pages.” There’s an entire “logbook” of gridded pages--color charts of the North Atlantic under various conditions.<br />
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And because Kelley is the quintessential whaler-artist, there is <b><a href="http://www.dowlingwalsh.com/represented-artists/scott-kelley/">scrimshaw</a></b>, too.<br />
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I'll be checking out his show opening next week in NYC at W. M. Brady, 22 E. 80th St.
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Archimedes Apples were used in the classroom to teach schoolchildren about fractions. This set from the 1920s, was produced by Critas for students of the Netherlands and its colonies.
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Antiques dealer, <a href="http://www.zuskorsten.com/"><b>Zus Korsten</b></a> of the Netherlands offered this on <a href="https://www.1stdibs.com/"><b>1stdibs</b></a> a while back. Needless to say, it has been sold.</div>
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These vintage reel boxes might trigger memories for some of you, but I’ve no salty sentimentality to offer. You see mine were not a seafaring people. Navy service during WWII cured my father of any further interest in maritime adventure. Ocean-passage to Ellis Island was quite enough for his father before that.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719081680234202968.post-46138591423843424172014-07-19T05:21:00.000-04:002014-07-19T05:30:30.094-04:00Squirting Grapefruits and Fingerprints: Deskey's Textiles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The interior that we now think of as the quintessential expression of Art Deco design, was actually slated to be yet another over-the-top “Rococo,” movie palace. That, of course, was before a certain designer entered the design competition with a completely different vision.<br />
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Deskey invested $5,000 in a spectacular presentation of the new Art Deco style that utilized glass, aluminum, chrome and geometric ornamentation, promising a modern theatre, unlike any other in New York. Deskey won the competition and was awarded the mammoth project of designing every public area in the Music Hall, including thirty lobby areas, smoking rooms, retiring rooms, foyers and lounges ... </blockquote>
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Deskey himself designed furniture and carpets, and he coordinated the design of railings, balustrades, signage and decorative details to complement the theatre's interior spaces. He used a brilliant combination of precious materials (including marble and gold foil), and industrial materials (including Bakelite, permatex, aluminum and cork)</blockquote>
The archive of Deskey’s work at the Smithsonian contains iterations of Radio City’s <b><a href="http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?view=&dsort=&date.slider=&fq=online_media_type%3A%22Images%22&q=radio+city+carpet&tag.cstype=all">instrument-themed carpet</a></b>, along with many other Deco delights. These playful pastel-on-black 1930s textile designs definitely took me by surprise!
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The street art of Buenos Aires is as exuberant as it is plentiful. The painting of murals on outside walls throughout the city is not only accepted, but encouraged and celebrated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I wandered by the above mural of Argentine deity, Diego Maradona, during my visit to BA in 2009. It’s way more lighthearted and cartoonish than more recent soccer murals, which tend toward the heroic and reverential. A big supporter of the local street art scene is <b><a href="http://buenosairesstreetart.com/">Buenos Aires Street Art</a></b>. They organize and document projects, offer regular street-art tours and even aerosol classes. You can see soccer related murals they’ve posted <b><a href="http://buenosairesstreetart.com/2014/06/argentina-world-cup-mural-maradona-messi-street-art/">here</a></b> and <a href="http://buenosairesstreetart.com/2011/05/boca-juniors-street-art/"><b>here</b>.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As all will be watching Lionel Messi’s <b><a href="http://www1.skysports.com/FIFA-World-Cup-2014/news/15241/9377376/world-cup-lionel-messi-has-date-with-history-after-argentina-see-off-the-netherlands-to-secure-germany-final">“date with history,”</a></b> in the World Cup final of <b><a href="http://www.fifa.com/">Argentina v. Germany</a></b>, I thought I’d finally post Maradona and some of the other painted walls I saw in BA. While I can’t give equal time here to Germany’s wall art, I’ve slipped in a mural from a visit to Berlin. I think you’ll figure out which one it is. (Hint: don’t be fooled by the Volkswagen)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Also check out the NY Times infographic on <b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/11/sports/worldcup/messi-vs-maradona.html">Messi vs. Maradona</a>.</b></span><br />
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The company changed hands a number of times toward the end of the last century and even landed under Chinese ownership. <b><a href="http://brocksfireworks.com/">Brocks Fireworks Limited</a></b> is now once again in the UK and aims " To produce high quality Pyrotechnics back in the United Kingdom and to protect the history of the British Firework Industry "</div>
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These gouache paintings by Phil George are from a group of 34, found in <b><a href="http://www.marlboroughbooks.com/stock_detail.php?stockid=2040627">“C.T. Brock & Co.'s Crystal Palace Fireworks.”</a></b> The book is at Brown University’s John Hay Library, in the <b><a href="http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/libs/hay/focus/fireworks/">Paul R. Dupee Collection on Fireworks.</a></b></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/7434292">Walter Vogel photo</a></b> of Pina Bausch, 1966</div>
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From time to time, I actually clear my computer desktop. Inevitably, I end up with loose images that I file in a folder labeled “Misc” Sometimes, when I go back into my "misc files," I find that affinities have formed.
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Vintage Japanese stencil <span style="font-size: x-small;">(eBay)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo by <a href="http://kimwood.org/ponderings/index.php/page/39/"><b>Kim Wood</b></a></span></div>
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Design for Dutch archeology stamp by <b><a href="http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/nl/items/MVC01:57737">Walter J. Nikkels</a></b></div>
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This photo of MC Escher with his set of nested <a href="https://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.geometry/unit6/unit6.html"><b>Platonic Solids</b></a> shows up in many places, but no one has cited an original source (as in where the picture was originally printed, or who the photographer was, as opposed to<i> </i>which Flickr or Pinterest account it was grabbed from).</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719081680234202968.post-40945946352903351092014-06-28T02:50:00.001-04:002014-06-28T02:52:04.376-04:00Farewell, Antiques Garage<div style="text-align: center;">
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Many of the vendors, like Janet West, below, who's managed to offer cool stuff there for 17 years, will migrate to the outdoor lot at 25th St. between Sixth Ave. and Broadway. I guess it might start to feel like the old Chelsea parking lot fleas. Which will be nice, but also means that it's just a matter of time ...</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719081680234202968.post-61306748152245148852014-06-25T15:02:00.000-04:002014-06-25T15:03:31.589-04:00Sugar, Unsweetened<div style="text-align: center;">
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There are still two weekends left to see <a href="http://creativetime.org/projects/karawalker/"><b>Kara Walker’s searing installation</b></a>, "A SUBTLETY: OR THE MARVELOUS SUGAR BABY, AN HOMAGE TO THE UNPAID AND OVERWORKED ARTISANS WHO HAVE REFINED OUR SWEET TASTES FROM THE CANE FIELDS TO THE KITCHENS OF THE NEW WORLD ON THE OCCASION OF THE DEMOLITION OF THE DOMINO SUGAR REFINING PLANT."<br />
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Last weekend the wait was about 40 minutes on a line that stretched for blocks, so plan accordingly. Also check the <a href="http://creativetime.org/"><b>Creative Time</b></a> website for exact hours. I see they've just extended Saturday and Sunday viewing to 7 pm.<br />
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The space reverberates with the haunted past of the sugar industry and the damage—human, environmental, political, and otherwise—it has inflicted in satisfying our collective sweet tooth. The Domino factory, which during the 19th century refined more than half of the sugar in the U.S. will soon be erased by development, but the history will not.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719081680234202968.post-11932997505595437282014-06-20T22:34:00.002-04:002014-06-20T22:49:17.919-04:00Splendor of the Grass<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I never imagined finding such animated illustrations inside a book titled <b><a href="http://archive.org/stream/fodderpasturepla00clarrich#page/66/mode/thumb">“Fodder and Pasture Plants.”</a> </b>It was published by the Canadian Department of Agriculture in 1913, at exactly the time, a continent away, Braque and Picasso, were deep into Cubism, and Kandinsky was pioneering pure abstraction. Were these oddly angular, calligraphic renderings of grasses the work of someone other than a traditional botanical illustrator? It turns out the answer is yes, but he wasn’t a starving expressionist with a beret. The artist was <b><a href="http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history/51/criddle_n.shtml">Norman Criddle,</a></b> a noted entomologist who happened to seriously know his way around a box of paints.
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Criddle was born in Englnad in 1875 and his family moved to Manitoba in 1882, where they established a farm. According to <b><a href="http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/criddle_n.shtml">Memorable Manitobans,</a></b> “He developed the “Criddle Mixture” of poisons to counter the grasshopper menace in 1902 and was employed by the government to demonstrate its use to farmers. He became entomological field officer for Manitoba in 1913 and was appointed provincial entomologist in 1919.” The Criddle Mixture continued to be used for the next 30 years. The Rocky Mountain locust of the 1902 crop threat is now extinct.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Source:<b> <a href="http://www.sabu-sabu.com/farm-weed-collection/">Sabu-Sabu Natural Lifestyle</a></b></span></div>
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In 1906, years before “Fodder and Pasture Plants,” Norman Criddle illustrated “Farm Weeds of Canada.” The paintings are more traditional, but as you can see in Clover Dodder, there are hints of the sophisticated compositions to come.
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Williamsburg taqueria <b><a href="http://lasuperiornyc.com/">La Superior,</a></b> is a casual low-key kind of place that serves phenomenal tacos and margaritas. For the World Cup tournament they’ve installed a couple of TVs and a custom scoreboard. The festive elimination diagram, designed by a friend of the restaurant, consists of <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Vasarely">Vasarely</a></b>-like clusters silkscreened onto plexiglass.<br />
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<i>A 2002 plan to convert Newburgh, NY's Kreisel's Furniture building to the <a href="http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20021118/NEWS/311189998/0/SEARCH"><b>Sunset nightclub</b></a> never materialized.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I call them D-CONEs, “<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">D</span></u></b>epressed <b><u><span style="font-size: large;">C</span></u></b>ities <b><u><span style="font-size: large;">O</span></u></b>f the <b><u><span style="font-size: large;">N</span></u></b>orth<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">e</span></u></b>ast.” You know them by their telltale signs: hanging baskets of purple petunias in a downtown where there are more stores vacant than occupied; a desolate pedestrian mall, configured in the 1970s or 80s, which was supposed to bring foot traffic to Main St. (Could this be why the pedestrian mall-ification of Manhattan gives me the creeps?); a “revitalized waterfront” or other large budget project which never became the tourist-magnet it was projected to be; a designated “historic district,” branded with tasteful banners and serif type.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The largest employers are usually healthcare and social services. And you don’t have to look very far to find a dialysis center and a furniture rental.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Smaller cities such as Lewiston, Maine (36,000), and Gloversville, NY have managed to attract enough post-college 20 and 30-somethings, to support a food coop and arts events. Larger cities like Utica, New York, whose population has shrunk down to 62,000 from a high of 102,000 in 1930, feel beyond hope. Almost everything about them, from the “Job Fair” banners to the obesity rate of the population is heartbreakingly sad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What these cities lack in economic health, they make up for in typographic abundance. Having missed out on the transformative development more tech-oriented metro centers experienced, these cities now stand as urban palimpsests. The remains of multi-era commercial signage record their every stage of deindustrialization and decline.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The wrecking ball will swing one day, no doubt, so make that detour to a D-CONE near you. Take photos, have a meal at a local eatery, and try to buy something. You might even be inspired to invest in some cheap real estate. </span><br />
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<i style="text-align: start;">Some of you will think this is a reach, but I’m seeing a definite, and quite amazing </i><i>(to my eyes) </i><i style="text-align: start;">visual resonance between Maya Angelou’s “Miss Calypso“ album cover of 1957 and the original 1969 cover for “I know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” (The album’s “winged” red figure on a black ground with a fire becomes a winged black figure on a red ground and a sun on the book.) Always rising, always on fire. </i></blockquote>
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By now you’ve read that the <b><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178942">phenomenal</a></b> Dr. Angelou was a dancer and a calypso singer in the 1950s. If you haven’t yet seen the interview with Oprah where <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcOzaMGQzPg">she watches a clip of herself</a> </b>in the film, “Calypso Heat Wave,” you should. There are more photos of her <b><a href="http://www.largeup.com/2014/05/28/maya-angelou/">performing here.</a></b> I also recommend NY Times columnist, Charles Blow’s <a href="http://nyti.ms/1juyelE"><b>Maya & Me & Maya</b>.</a> It’s a very personal articulation of loss and a powerful tribute.
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How is it possible that someone with 186 published New Yorker covers* is not a household name?<br />
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lonka Karasz (1896-1981) was an insanely talented artist/designer/illustrator who, in addition to magazine and book covers designed pottery, textiles, furniture, silver and <b><a href="http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.nl/2010/06/ilonka-karasz-cartographer.html">decorative maps</a>.</b> Earlier this year, at the <b><a href="http://www.bgc.bard.edu/">Bard Graduate Center,</a> </b>Karasz scholar <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ashley-Callahan/e/B001JRZVIY/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1400890347&sr=1-1"><b>Ashley Callahan</b></a> presented the work of Ilonka and her equally talented sister Mariska. The creative siblings came to the U.S. from Hungary in the 1910s. They settled in Greenwich Village where they became active participants in the avant garde of fashion, art and design.<br />
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Thanks to Callahan’s extensive research, each sister has had her own exhibit at the <b><a href="http://georgiamuseum.org/art/collections">Georgia Museum of Art</a> </b>and there is a book to accompany each; <b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ciframe%20style=%22width:120px;height:240px;%22%20marginwidth=%220%22%20marginheight=%220%22%20scrolling=%22no%22%20frameborder=%220%22%20src=%22//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ss&ref=ss_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=almyey-20&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=0915977516&asins=0915977516&linkId=YIGCDQA4LO4JZ3ZV&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true%22%3E%20%3C/iframe%3E">Enchanting Modern: Ilonka Karasz</a></b> and<b> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Threads-Fashion-Mariska-Karasz/dp/0915977613/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=17J8E6BGFJMQP23KPVVY">Modern Threads: Fashion and Art by Mariska Karasz.</a> </b>You can see 106 Karasz covers at <a href="http://www.condenaststore.com/-st/Ilonka-Karasz-New-Yorker-Covers-Prints_c147260_.htm"><b>condenaststore.com</b></a><br />
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Whichever cover you find yourself on this weekend, picnicking in the park, sunning on tar beach, or stuck in traffic, I hope you have a wonderful holiday weekend.<br />
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The Friends of <a href="http://www.robertnewman.com/">Bob Newman</a> community is presenting an <a href="http://www.biddingowl.com/Auction/index.cfm?auctionID=1484&viewType=1&category=1&catName=Antiques%20and%20Art">online benefit auction</a> featuring artwork from a collection of top illustrators and photographers. This auction will raise funds to help defray medical bills and living expenses after Bob's serious accident last year.<div style="text-align: center;">
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This is an extraordinary opportunity to own original and limited-edition artwork by such stars as Philip Burke, Henrik Drescher, Jorge Colombo, Tom Bachtell, Robert Risko, Stephen Kroninger, Victor Juhasz, the list just keeps on going. Yes, it’s a who’s who of editorial illustration.<br />
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<b><a href="http://friendsofbobbenefitartauction.tumblr.com/">The Tumblr site</a></b> is seriously off the hook. Go <a href="http://friendsofbobbenefitartauction.tumblr.com/"><b>there</b></a> to see all the artwork. Then <a href="http://www.biddingowl.com/Auction/home.cfm?auctionID=1484"><b>go to the auction site</b></a> to bid/buy.<br />
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There will also be a <a href="http://www.robertnewman.com/friends-of-bob-newman-benefit-party/"><b>benefit party/gathering</b></a> on May 29th at the Society of Illustrators in New York City. <a href="http://FriendsOfBobPartyRSVP@gmail.com/"><b>RSVP by May 23 here.</b></a><br />
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How many portraits of The Boss can you find in the <a href="http://www.biddingowl.com/Auction/index.cfm?auctionID=1484&viewType=1&category=1&catName=Antiques%20and%20Art"><b>auction?</b></a><br />
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Vintage work clothes, pleated taffeta ruffles, camp blankets, peasant blouses and lots of indigo. The <a href="http://vintagefashionandtextileshow.com/"><b>Vintage Fashion and Textile Show</b></a> in Sturbridge is a serious affair. Photography is strictly verboten, but I got a dispensation at <a href="http:/?"><b>Sarajo</b></a> (formerly of Soho, currently of Maine) to photograph this WWI-era “BANDAGE FOR FIRST AID IN ACCIDENT” scarf/sling.</div>
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