…(previously mentioned here) organized a conversation about art and activism on the front steps of Los Angeles City Hall last night featuring recent NYC transplant A.L. Steiner and Andrea Bowers – and my first chance  to check out the Occupy L.A. village on the lawn surrounding City Hall.Â..
…opened Nate Page’s Storefront Plaza this afternoon , which involved the simple act of moving the storefront glass back 20 feet into the space, creating a mysterious deep red extruded orifice facing Alvarado Boulevard that had cars slowing down this afternoon during the ribbon cutting…and stay tuned for the upcoming Storefront Pla..
…have been going up around town in day-glo colors, and if you are in LA, perhaps you have noticed them at occasional intersections and free..
…housed in cozy vast top floor downtown LA loft hosted Alice Waters for an Edible Schoolyard benefit event and sale this afternoon&#..
…(the local artist-run performancey venue initiated and run by a loose collective of five, including friends Giles Miller, Dawn Kasper, and Eric Chen moved into a grand new space on Cottage Home in Chinatown while I was away) hosted the release event for Darin Klein’s Box of Books tonight, featuring colorful crocheted monsters by Zac Monday who ..
…yesterday evening where the city welcomed me back with some sunset sprinkles and I can’t remember ever being so happy to arrive anywhere, eager to nest back into this crazy city, the winter weather, the east side art scene, plus the familiar home, dogs &am..
…flying over a picturesque landscape of Soviet housing blocks on our way up and out  yesterday, and then anticipation to finally get home at long long long last..
…old and new are in vivid contrast all over town – as in many of the European cities I’ve been visiting lately – most vividly evidenced on visits to the super long and lively ‘Women’s Market’ that runs all the way up Boulevard Stefan Stambolov and then past the nearby supermarket with mega plastic graphics ..
…sitting side by side in a park in central Sofia, Bulgaria – with young Balkan skate rats attired in impressively authentic Western skate rat fashions – is what I noticed on the long circuitous walk I took on the way to my Sofia Architecture Week lecture thi..
…is where I started out my first morning in the country for a live interview to discuss my work, and tomorrow’s talk at the Sofia Architecture Week, and then out to explore the streets of Sofia for a brisk afternoon of meandering wanderings in crisp cool sunny weather enjoying one of my last days as ..
…is what made the first impression as we approached the Sofia airport over a late autumn umber and ochre landscape, for my first visit to the country (whose only previous associations for me come from the amazing Le Mystere des voix Bulgares album released by 4AD in the late 80’s) for a talk on Tuesday ..
…one of my favorite places, just arrived from J Morgan Puett, excerpted below: This fall, we are introducing The Mildred Complex(ity), the public face of Mildred’s Lane…located on Main Street in the village of Narrowsburg, NY, across the Delaware River from Mildred’s Lane. We occupy the top floor of the Narrowsburg Mews building at the ..
…Art Center in Minneapolis tonight is especially exciting and anticipated since it’s the first time I will see his work in person, seeming to be just missing performances of his work for years like ‘The Show Must Go On‘Â and ‘Pichet Klunchun and Myself‘ whereever I go…and then the great pleasure of seeing dancer CĂ©dric ..
…is just what every little kid around here needs to escape to – out the back door during those cabin fever winter days – and today I helped assemble one for the little nieces and nephews – just in time for the cold and snow where this white tarp covered construction will disappear into the ..
…today started with a visit to the studio of Richard Bresnahan, where we drank delicious green tea out of his earthy sumptuous cups and teapot (similar to the one I have at home in LA, which I discussed in this New York Times story a few years ago) around a warm wood hearth-like square filled ..
…from above is my welcome back t..
…is a great collection of displays, shows, and talks filling a half-refurbished modern factory in the middle of town (with beautiful layers of paint in greens and golds pealing from every surface) where I will be following MVRDV with a lecture “Designing the Wild and Cultivating the City” this evenin..
…oppressive and quaint, global and local, dominating and warm, standing side by side, on the same street, duki..
…on the connecting flight from Amsterdam, seated by a drafty exit row window with -53 degrees on the other side, had me all bundled up in almost everything I had packed in my carry on….but looking forward to my first visit to Poland, for the ĹĂłdĹş Design..
…is the awesome new book – I just borrowed from my brother for some inspiring travel reading – by Peter Goodfellow from Princeton University Press all about the crazy brilliant things that birds build which make even the most sophisticated human architect look pretty primitive in c..
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