The LACMA is an excellent museum even when most of the permanent collection is stashed away during renovation. Contemporary art it is!
LACMA lights
The new building (not done yet)
NPS was here
LACMA 2019
October 12, 2019
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Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art
September 17, 2019
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A quick afternoon visit to the Sydney MCA was almost punctuated by a glass of wine on the top floor. Sadly we missed the order window by two minutes. Don’t dilly dally, order.
The video art (non-permanent) of Shaun Gladwell this visit was remarkable. It all invoked a dreamlike feeling.
Definitely take the time to visit the MCA when in Sydney.
MCA from the harbor
Art in the Corner
April 27, 2019
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Art in the Corner
Ever since we moved to this property in 2002, I have wanted to use one of the old rusted farm implements as an art piece. 17 years later, here is the piece pretty much exactly how I imagined it. The rock slab is a 2500 pound bluestone slab from Pennsylvania. Getting that properly staged was a thing, but it all went surprisingly smoothly.
Mogli is suspicious of this art idea
Escher in Melbourne with Sam
December 12, 2018
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Sam clicks
Escher with legs
Escher with legs and a hat
Art or sam?
Not Escher
Living Art: The Remarkable Little Paradise Art Lodge. New Zealand
November 27, 2018
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Highway to Paradise
There are magic places in the world, created under intensity so focused that nature absorbs and reflects the power of the creator. The Little Paradise Art Lodge is one of those places.
Put together over 26 years by a Swiss artist who is both intense and incredibly human at the same time, the grounds are nothing short of remarkable.
We were not able to stay during this trip due to a birthday (paradox) conflict. But we will be back for sure. Even a short visit is highly recommended. We stayed for about an hour, enchanted the entire time.
You’ll be caught in the web little tourist
Enter the property
The lodge itself is hand built in such a quirky and delightful and natural way, it is hard to describe. Primitive, and yet so very planet earth.
Bedroom
Bathroom full of skipping rocks
Hand carved headboard
Living table
A couch fashioned from one piece of poplar
Though the lodge is a sight to see, the six acres of curated gardens are astonishing in their willy-nilly natural order.
We have always talked about a tree house like this
Lawnmower
The artist, touched
Fin
Argentina Art
May 3, 2018
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Bellas Artes museum, Buenos Aires
MALBA, Buenos Aires
Small Domestic Miracles: Emily Shepardson’s Art
February 11, 2018
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Yes please. We have been collecting Emily’s art for many years, and we love it. Emily’s eye and her artistic sensibility are incredibly well developed. Watching certain threads across time develop, bloom, evolve, and rebloom has been particularly rewarding: gloves, house, lace, birds, and crow. So we were psyched to see the latest curated show. The show is not so much a culmination as it is a snapshot of the creative petri dish (or, the “endless collage cycle” as Emily herself puts it).
Go see for yourself.
follow you home
domesticity below
The show is professionally hung and well lit. Properly curated and composed.
Emily’s statement
the artist (according to the name tag dutifully working its way into her hair)
This piece now belongs in our collection
palpable buzz during the opening
This one will live at the Stick
collusion
where this one will end up is anybody’s guess (amy’s favorite)
Disclaimer: Emily Shepherdson is one of our dearest friends, and we love her. We don’t love her art because we love her. No wait, we do love her art because we love her, that’s not what we mean. But we would love her art even if she were a stranger. Oh hell, just go see it for yourself. Show up through March 4.
