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Thank You…

…Harper Lee.  Job well done.

‘The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.’ -Harper Lee

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The Perfect Red…

swarm light installation, vienna/neon golden
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Fine Art…

…minimalistic and historic; pewter and gold; interior and exterior…sublime and visionary, yes?

gold and gray apartment/richard landfall

fondazione prada/oma
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Ebony and Ivory…

Dominion Office Building staircase, Moscow/Zaha Hadid Architects
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Hey, Monkey-Face!…

…playfulness and a touch of humor in design is delightful.  Anything that can place a smile on one’s face, at a glance, is seriously charming.  Spanish designer, Jaime Hayón has designed Miko, a chimp-like faced watch, for his Orlog watch company.  Grins!

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All (the) Right Angles…

…work it!  Square Compositions Penthouse by Pitsou Kedem Architects and fashion by Anna Michaelis.

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She Knows Why the Caged Bird Sings…

Amsterdam fashion designer Karim Adduchi has paid tribute to his Berber heritage by adapting traditional carpets into frayed and patterned garments…naming the collection, She Knows Why the Caged Bird Sings.  Inspirational.  Move over, Scarlett O’Hara!  Hello, Karim Adduchi…

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The Perfect Red…

…is this your bag?  The perfect red by Alexander McQueen.

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Make a Pilgrimage…

…long live art and design!

Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, Utah/Robert Smithson

Serpentine Pavillion, London, UK/Serpentine Galleries

Levitated Mass, LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles/Michael Heizer

Salvation Mountain, Niland, CA/Leonard Knight

The Illumination, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, UK/James Terrell

Barbara Hepworth Museum & Sculpture Garden, St. Ives, Cornwall, UK

Cosmo, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY/Andres Jaque
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Museum Monday…

…A spate of major new museum openings boasting top notch architecture and serious modern and contemporary art exhibitions make this summer’s cultural landscape one worth traveling for.

Fondazione Prada Milan/OMA

Fondation Louis Vuitton, Bois de Boulogne/Frank Gehry

Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC’s Meatpacking District/Renzo Piano

Kunsthaus Dahlem, Berlin/Petra and Paul Kahlfeldt

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The End…

the be-all and end-all…tastefully designed master bath, 25th Street Residence, by Geremia Designs.

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Happy Graduation…

to all new graduates.  Make a difference!

Through the Looking Glass at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gallery view, Chinese Galleries, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Wuxia Ensemble, Jean Paul Gaultier (French, born 1952), autumn/winter 2001-2; courtesy of Jean Paul Gaultier
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Boreal Halo…

…The Muzeul National de Arta Contemporana, located in Bucharest, Romania, is the temporary home of the Boreal Halo by French artist Vincent Leroy. Inside the Grand Palace, the Boreal Halo casts a mesmerizing, hypnotic trance over the room. The mass of the object creates an interesting contrast to the stark solidity of the marble floors, striking a tense balance that gives the structure a sense of lightness.

The halo makes visitors aware of the space they occupy…

the installation levitates above the marble floor…

the ring is in contrast with the fine appointments of the museum room, but remains harmonious in the space…

…as the hypnotic halo rotates, visitors will find themselves inside and then outside its space.  Lovely…
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Virunga…

…why must beauty and nature be exploited…why must innocence be prey to greed, corruption, and violence?  No answers…only questions.  Visit Virunga to take action.