…Yasmin Vobis, Michael Alexander, Hilary Zaic, Jose Esparza, Anne Menke, Sam Dufaux, Jenny Lie Andersen, Alexander Maymind, and Willem Boning is a super survey of fantastical unrealized city plans – 49 of them – depicted graphically in such a way that they begin to have a conversation, and there will be a book launch event ..
…is fantastic: both a collection of very different maps, and a book about Radical Cartography – which I was just revisiting today – by my old friend (and college house-mate) Lize Mogel, and Alexis Bhagat, which they describe on the website thusly: An Atlas of Radical Cartography is a collection of 10 maps and 10 ..
…has just emerged over the past year – founded by Shamim M. Momin and Christine Y. Kim – with energetic nimble activity most welcome in L.A.: variously squatting in local homes and institutions, taking to the streets and ‘public spaces’ (or whatever passes for that here in L.A.), and supporting performance and time-based work – ..
…are featured in New York Times T Magazine, only reaffirming my recent obsession with loose, free-flowing, low-crotch-ed pants – recently noted in my Thai Fisherman Pants post here – this is all I want to wear right now, and I am looking forward to experimenting on the sewing machine with all of the various varieties, ..
…just sent out this exciting announcement: Last week, production began on a new feature film based on Dr. Sacks’s essay “The Last Hippie,” in An Anthropologist on Mars. Jim Kohlberg is directing the indie film, which stars J. K. Simmons (“Up in the Air” and “Juno”), Julia Ormond (“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and ..
…is making some sense of this crazy vast nearly incomprehensible cultural landscape we call Los Angeles with a great website, a directory of all of the local venues, online and printed maps, regular announcements, plus it’s own newspaper – and with ten MFA art programs in the area (Art Center College of Art and Design, ..
…is where I go for yoga when I am in New York (or in San Francisco) – I plan my schedule of meetings and appointments each day around the class that I want to go to – because it has a neighborhoody communal vibe, serious/challenging yoga classes, and fun teachers (one of them casually gave ..
…is where I am at for lunch (the one at Prince & Sixth Avenue, though the one on 13th Street & University is equally good, but more crowded and less calm) – and if I had my way, where I would be for EVERY meal when I am in New York – and since I ..
…is a photographer from Braddock, Pennsylvania who presented her work as part of a panel discussion at NYU organized by Dean Daderko called “Through other Lenses” – in conjunction with the Grey Art Gallery’s exhibition “Downtown Pix: Mining the Fales Archive 1961-1991” – also including Moyra Davey and my friend A.L. Steiner (whose WAGE activities ..
…are up, pushing through the late winter leaves… Cultivation and harvesting of crocus was first documented in the Mediterranean, notably on the island of Crete. Frescos are extant at the Knossos site on Crete[3] as well as from a comparably aged site on Santorini. The first crocus seen in the Netherlands, where Crocus species are ..
…looks just great – like a superhero’s mom from the future. This is from an interview with QueerSighted: She was a fan of mine during season four of Project Runway. She actually was a guest of mine at my finale show. Then recently, for the Golden Globes, she called and asked if I would make ..
…performed in the rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum the other night, as a mega-fan I am extremely disappointed to have missed it – shucks. (website) Here is their text about the project: One of the things that you notice almost immediately in the jungle are the birds; so many different sounds coming from so many ..
…has found a warm triangle of light in..
…died in a car accident in downtown L.A. at the age of 76 after giving a riveting lecture to local architecture students – I was always so inspired by his pencil renderings while in architecture school. (n..
…will be joining me in conversation on April 7th at Princeton University and on April 8th at WNYC’s Greene Space in New York (along with one or two other exciting participants to be announced shortly) for a conversation on food and cities, to coincide with the release of the expanded edition of the Edible Estates ..
…learned from my sewing workshops with Annie O’Malley at Machine Project…
…was one of the best biographies I have read in a while, and it made me completely obsessed with Rudolf Nureyev. (book info) Here is an excerpt from Laura Jacob’s review in Dance Magazine: It’s hard to believe there’s now a generation, maybe two, that’s never heard of Rudolf Nureyev. Starting in the ’60s, his ..
…is where I’m at, and where I am everyday when home in Los Angeles, because it is my favorite neighborhoody yoga studio – and I especially like the classes with Dana, Juliette, Le Tania, and Susan…
…is a fascinating book that I just finished: …about how cities eat. That’s the quick definition. A slightly wordier one might that it’s about the eternal engine driving civilisation. Feeding cities arguably has a greater social and physical impact on us and our planet than anything else we do. Yet few of us in the ..
…is the title of an upcoming documentary directed by friend Wu Tsang, which is described as “…a hybrid documentary/narrative depicting Latina transgender women who build community with queer performance artists at downtown Los Angeles bar the Silver Platter.” We can’t wait to see it!..
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