Birthday Wishlist: McSkulls

A new limited-edition Alexander McQueen skull-print scarf will be released to accompany the designer’s "Savage Beauty" retrospective exhibition at the Met. It’ll be $495. [Bazaar Blog]

My birthday: May 15th

NYC Dreaming: Museum Hopping

Bravo.

Source:

Favorite Paintings - Jerry Saltz for NYMagazine

(recommended) Top 2010 Art - Jerry Saltz for NYMagazine

MOMA Exhibition: Counter Space "Design + the Modern Kitchen"

Counter Space explores the twentieth-century transformation of the kitchen and highlights MoMA’s recent acquisition of an unusually complete example of the iconic “Frankfurt Kitchen,” designed in 1926–27 by the architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. In the aftermath of World War I, thousands of these kitchens were manufactured for public-housing estates being built around the city of Frankfurt-am-Main in Germany. Schütte-Lihotzky’s compact and ergonomic design, with its integrated approach to storage, appliances, and work surfaces, reflected a commitment to transforming the lives of ordinary people on an ambitious scale. Previously hidden from view in a basement or annex, the kitchen became a bridgehead of modern thinking in the domestic sphere—a testing ground for new materials, technologies, and power sources, and a spring board for the rational reorganization of space and domestic labor within the home. Since the innovations of Schütte-Lihotzky and her contemporaries in the 1920s, kitchens have continued to articulate, and at times actively challenge, our relationship to the food we eat, popular attitudes toward the domestic role of women, family life, consumerism, and even political ideology in the case of the celebrated 1959 “Kitchen Debate” that took place between Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow at the height of the Cold War.


Featured alongside the Frankfurt Kitchen is a 1968 mobile fold-out unit manufactured by the Italian company Snaidero. These two complete kitchens are complemented by a wide variety of design objects, architectural plans, posters, archival photographs, and selected artworks, all drawn from MoMA’s collection. Prominence is given to the contribution of women throughout the exhibition, not only as the primary consumers and users of the domestic kitchen, but also as reformers, architects, designers, and as artists who have critically addressed kitchen culture and myths.

Frankfurt Kitchen Floorplan

NYC Dreaming: The Hole - Boy Session

 Just how I love my men fashionable, hairy and with lipstick on:

I would be here hanging and showing legs!!!

NYC Dreaming: FlyNY 2010

 OH my!  Look up at the sky its: a whole bunch of kites  :)

Architecture For Humanity New York is having their 2nd: FlyNY
A kite spectacle to promote art, culture, design & architecture to everyone.  I love kites they are so whimsical!  I have gone kiting (?) before - I forgot them at home - but I was going to kite at Bonnaroo.

NY Dreaming: Birthday Wishes

This goes out to the hip-est senior citizen (sorry mom) The every funky always flashy:

NYC Dreaming: Shakespeare in the Parking Lot

Totally jealous!  If you are in NYC and want to catch a FREE new take on Shakespeare check out:

Julius Caesar  (dir. Hamilton Clancy) July 29 to August 14

and

Love's Lavour's Lost  (dir. Kathy Curtiss)  July 8 to July 24

At the municipal parking lot at Ludlow and Broome Streets on the Lower East Side. 

On similar news: iwannago!  If anyone wants to gift me 2 round trip air tickets and accomodations
I would love you forever and ever and ever - gaymen.


More Info:  The Drilling CompaNY

NYC/LA Dreaming: Partey

Here's the 411

NYC Dreaming: Movement and Structure

Well played NYC....Your high rents and crime rates are no match for my dreams of livin' in a flat with a breath taking view.  love u.

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This weekend Beirut played at the Guggenheim - a wonderful blend of ARCHITECTURE and MUSIC.
These pictures only show a fraction of the space. The use of it as a concert venue adds a new element to the building.

For the Visuals: Urban Design

The Culture Shed is a new "breed of cultural site — a kind of combination museum and rental exhibition space, which would be self-supporting."

Super!  I cannot wait to see the finished product.  My hands hurt just looking at the details on that model.  Those openings are going to cast shadows and change the look of the site throughout the day.  I love experimenting with shadows - the sun is a wonderful ally!


More Info:
West Side Project Wins Grant for Urban Design
By KATE TAYLOR
Published: July 15, 2010