Jeff D. Taylor

From Love to Bingo Getty Images by AlmapBBDO (via John Thorp)

Tue, 29 May 2012 13:29:29 -0400

From Love to Bingo Getty Images by AlmapBBDO

(via John Thorp)

awolerizku: Awol Erizku: New York City Solo Show at Hasted...

Tue, 29 May 2012 11:42:20 -0400

awolerizku:

Awol Erizku: New York City Solo Show at Hasted Kraeutler Gallery

"I think star architects have seized an opportunity to go anywhere in the world to produce..."

Tue, 29 May 2012 10:07:02 -0400

“I think star architects have seized an opportunity to go anywhere in the world to produce...

Me @ the Sol Lewitt Drawing Retrospective. (Photo: May 2012)

Mon, 28 May 2012 20:00:06 -0400

Me @ the Sol Lewitt Drawing Retrospective.

(Photo: May 2012)

"Freedom of speech is also under attack because of an ambiguous — and Orwellian — article in Bill 78..."

Sun, 27 May 2012 12:52:49 -0400

“Freedom of speech is also under attack because of an ambiguous — and Orwellian — article in...

Sol Lewitt’s “Wall Drawing 746” @ The Jacob K....

Sat, 26 May 2012 13:56:46 -0400

Sol Lewitt’s “Wall Drawing 746” @ The Jacob K. Javits Federal Building

(Photo: May 2012)

Dan Flavin @ The Morgan Library & Museum (Photo: May 2012)

Sat, 26 May 2012 12:56:39 -0400

Dan Flavin @ The Morgan Library & Museum

(Photo: May 2012)

A Jenny Holzer bench from Public Art Fund’s new exhibition...

Fri, 25 May 2012 13:43:09 -0400

A Jenny Holzer bench from Public Art Fund’s new exhibition Common Ground, on view in City Hall Park through November 30, 2012.

(Photo: May 2012)

Your weekend chill track is: Flight Facilities (ft. Grovesnor) -...

Fri, 25 May 2012 12:49:21 -0400

Your weekend chill track is:

Flight Facilities (ft. Grovesnor) - With You.

"The problem is we tend to just see an object’s use, not the object itself. When we see a..."

Thu, 24 May 2012 14:08:13 -0400

“The problem is we tend to just see an object’s use, not the object itself. When we see...

Brendan Fernandes, 1979.206.143 and 1979.206.200, 2010. (Photo:...

Thu, 24 May 2012 12:46:00 -0400

Brendan Fernandes, 1979.206.143 and 1979.206.200, 2010.

(Photo: Installation view, From Hiz Hands, Art in General, 2010)

What Chinese Consumers Want by Tom Doctoroff Chinese at all...

Wed, 23 May 2012 13:01:07 -0400

What Chinese Consumers Want by Tom Doctoroff

Chinese at all socioeconomic levels try to “win”—that is, climb the ladder of success—while working within the system, not against it. In Chinese consumer culture, there is a constant tension between self-protection and displaying status. This struggle explains the existence of two seemingly conflicting lines of development. On the one hand, we see stratospheric savings rates, extreme price sensitivity and aversion to credit-card interest payments. On the other, there is the Chinese fixation with luxury goods and a willingness to pay as much as 120% of one’s yearly income for a car.

Very interesting read — I’m left wondering, where does the burgeoning Chinese appetite for art fit into all of this? Is strictly a financial or status investment? If so, how does that fit into the public/private argument?

Beyond “functional fixedness” with the telephone...

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:23:46 -0400

Beyond “functional fixedness” with the telephone pole.

nationalpost:

Douglas Coupland-created ‘V-Pole’ may take high tech to the streets in Vancouver
To clear its streets of cellphone towers, parking meters, Wi-Fi terminals, streetlights and even community message boards, the city of Vancouver is pushing forward with a scheme to compress all the technologies together into specialized “Vancouver poles” planted throughout the city.

“Meet your inevitable future,” wrote novelist Douglas Coupland, the technology’s creator, in an introductory Tweet.

The device, no larger than a telephone pole, would manage cell signals for multiple carriers, as well as wireless Internet for the surrounding neighbourhood. In-ground pads plugged into the pole would provide inductive charging for parked electric cars. An integrated touch screen would display maps, ads or payment interfaces, and an LED street light would be perched at the top of the pole. (Photo: Martin Tessler/Mathew Bulford; Illustration: Andrew Barr)

Space Program: Mars by Tom Sachs (Photo: Park Avenue Armory, May...

Wed, 23 May 2012 09:53:54 -0400

Space Program: Mars by Tom Sachs

(Photo: Park Avenue Armory, May 2012)

Sol Lewitt @ Frieze Art Fair NYC | Lisson Gallery Booth (Photo:...

Tue, 22 May 2012 17:08:47 -0400

Sol Lewitt @ Frieze Art Fair NYC | Lisson Gallery Booth

(Photo: May 2012)

FIGHTING CRIME WITH ARCHITECTURE IN MEDILLON, COLOMBIA (NB: Not...

Tue, 22 May 2012 12:49:39 -0400

FIGHTING CRIME WITH ARCHITECTURE IN MEDILLON, COLOMBIA

(NB: Not to be confused with “fighting crime in a future time”)

Takashi Miyakawa - I <3 NY (Photo: Crosby and Spring Streets,...

Mon, 21 May 2012 16:53:25 -0400

Takashi Miyakawa - I <3 NY

(Photo: Crosby and Spring Streets, NYC - May 2012)

Tom Sachs: Mars by Creative Time | Park Avenue Armory

Fri, 18 May 2012 13:01:00 -0400

Tom Sachs: Mars

by Creative Time | Park Avenue Armory

How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet

Thu, 17 May 2012 12:47:09 -0400

How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet

This painting makes me want to be in San Francisco. Wayne...

Thu, 10 May 2012 10:44:06 -0400

This painting makes me want to be in San Francisco. Wayne Thiebaud, somehow you always do this to me.

allierud:

Wayne Thiebaud, San Francisco West Side Ridge, 2002 (Smithsonian American Art Museum)