We recently stumbled upon an image of two staircases side-by-side, the steps staggered, with no banister or partition between. There was no commentary. It reminded us of artist Beatrice Wood’s perfect description of Marcel Duchamp’s revolutionary Fountain that upended the art world and changed the way viewed art, and artists.
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We are smitten with Tables for One, reviews of imaginary restaurants, dreamed up by designer Evan Johnston using the nom de plume A. Pontius. We are charmed by Salé, where “salt is nowhere to be found in the food, nor can you find it in a the familiar little container on the dining table. That’s because…
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We really love Maira Kalman‘s picture of her worn, old-fashioned boots and it’s simple, insightful, refreshingly real-life annotation. It affirms something we practice many times daily: imagining, fantasizing, trying-on scenarios in our heads that we ultimately will never do because the reality is, well, something we don’t really want to deal with, or can’t deal with.…
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(Video link here.) This video about the private little games people (especially kids) play in their heads reminded me of one I’ve been playing for years. When I walk by a really tacky store–say, of clothes or furniture–I look at the display and imagine, if I absolutely had to, how or what would I choose…
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The theme of current New Yorker is “World Changers” and the magazine is fat with mind-expanding reports. The gist of the issue, and of vast creative streams and ideas that seem to be appearing everywhere these days, are expressed in its amazing cover by Javier Mariscal. Sometimes when I’m sitting on the subway looking at…
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