Rostarr | La Lune (With Blessings) | 2012
I just heard from my buddy Rostarr for the first time in a long while. And this led me to his website and latest work. Way cool. I love the prints he's made for Paper Monster (above).
Self-Portrait With the Combat Nymphos Of Saigon | Chris Cran | Oil and acrylic on canvas | 54.5" x 84" | 1985
Chris Cran, my father-in-law, and one of Canada's most celebrated artists, has launched a new website featuring his work in painting from the early 80's up until the present day.
Fresh off of the unveiling of his massive mural at Barclays Center and another recent mural for BAM, Jose has a new show opening at Haunch of Venison in London.
I just came across this sweet Curtis Kulig piece...
Wavelength of Speech, Hap Tivey (2007)
My brother-in-law, Anthony Cran, and his wife Naomi Wilding, have recently opened Wilding Cran, a Los Angeles based gallery representing international contemporary artists.
Have a look at the new poster series for Original Music Workshop by our friends at Mogollon.
Mark Firth – of Diner and Marlow & Sons fame – and his wife, Bettina Schwartz, recently opened Bell & Anchor, a fantastic new restaurant in Great Barrington, MA. With an all star team including former Marlow chef Steve Browning, and desert chef Megan McDiarmid, they are producing world class farm to table cuisine in a rustic country setting.
My friend Isa Tapia has launched a new website for her high-fashion collection of women's shoes.
Chris Cran, Family (1987). Oil on canvas
My father-in-law, Chris Cran, is included in BUILDERS, the Canadian Biennial at the National Gallery of Canada.
Calliope, a new restaurant by my friends Eric and Ginevra, received an amazing and well deserved review in today's New York Times.
My friend Isa Wipfli has a great photo-stream on Tumblr that shows his fashion, documentary, and experimental work.
Carol Vogel profiles my friend Jose Parla's new work in the New York Times:
For New Theater, BAM Commissions a Really Big Painting
A decade ago, when the Brooklyn Academy of Music restored its landmark exterior, the Brazilian photographer Vik Muniz decorated the scaffolding of the building’s second, third and fourth floors with images of a giant gingerbread house. It was a colorful confection: melted sugar outlined with giant jelly beans and slithering Gummi Worms recreated the building’s arched windows; giant M&M’s became its frieze.
Now, to enliven its newest theater – the Richard B. Fisher Building – which was unveiled in June and officially opens Sept. 5, the academy has asked the Brooklyn artist José Parlá to create its first permanent commissioned piece of public art for an interior space.
“Gesture Performing Dance, Dance Performing Gesture,’’ a painting measuring 37 feet by 7 feet, incorporates collage, acrylic, oil, ink, plaster and enamel and is slated for completion around the end of the month. The painting will cover the back wall of the lobby, which is visible from the street.
“This particular work will be informed by dance, movement and gestural communication,’’ Mr. Parlá said in a statement.
Peter Boyd is an awesome guy, an art collector, and now he makes wine. Marsha Lederman profiles the him in the Globe and Mail:
An art collection that pays homage to artists connected to the Canadian West
As soon as he left the University of Western Ontario and landed a job, Peter Boyd bought a car, some furniture and his first work of art.
He has since spent “hundreds of thousands” of dollars on his art habit, running out of wall space at home and keeping much of his collection in storage (necessitated, in part, by the 2009 sale of his oil-field seismic-services company Arcis Corp., and the subsequent disappearance of office walls on which to hang the work).
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Influenced by childhood trips to the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ont., he began his collection with historical work by artists such as David Milne, but has sold or gifted most of it and now exclusively collects contemporary art. His collection of about 100 works (it peaked at about 200) is populated with artists connected to the Canadian West, including Chris Cran, Douglas Coupland, Attila Richard Lukacs and Geoffrey James, but he also owns work by Robert Mapplethorpe and Eric Fischl. “You’re always falling in love with art if you love art,” he says.
His latest entrepreneurial venture is Genius Wines; its first release a pricey Sonoma County cabernet sauvignon he calls Creo. “It comes from the Latin word for creativity,” he says. “It’s my tribute to artists who are geniuses.”
Friends and former Asymptote co-workers, Martin Henn and Klaus Ransmayr of HENN Studio B, have recently completed the Porche Pavillion at the Volkswagen Autostadt in Wolfsberg, Germany.
My old friend Alex “Edward Sharpe” Ebert, of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, is releasing a new album today titled Here and featuring the new single Man on Fire. Listen to them perform live on KCRW.
Our friends at Mogollon made these great background images for the Original Music Workshop website.
My friend Alex Ebert, of recent Edward Sharpe fame, has a new solo album called Alexander. Here he is Conan playing the first single, Truth.
Constructivist Swatches, Oil on Canvas, 24”x24
I love these paintings by my friend Tim Hull.
I hung out with Jose Parla a few nights ago, and before we went to dinner, we spent some time in his studio where I was lucky enough to see some of his fantastic new paintings.
