Daniel Cooney Fine Art Gallery
Summer Salon
Work by Felix Rodriguez, Juliana Beasley, Bradley Peters and Rebecca Sittler.
Thursday June 25th from 6 to 8pm
511 West 25th Street #506
New York, NY 10001
YAS Hotel by Asymptote Architecture
The Yas Hotel Abu Dhabi, designed by my former employer, Asymptote Architecture, Opens October 2009
Asymptote Architecture, the award-winning, New York-based practice, nears completion of The Yas Hotel project in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Yas Hotel is a 500-room, 85,000-square-meter complex now under construction by Aldar Properties PJSC. Asymptote was awarded the commission to design the buildings and environs from a closed competition two years ago targeting an opening date of October 30, 2009 to coincide with the Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Chris Cran in the Globe and Mail
What One Artist Just Felt Like Doing One Day
by: Gary Michael Dault
I ask painter Chris Cran - whose shimmering, graphically delicate but exacting paintings deal with a myriad of subtle optical issues - if he thinks of himself as a visual satirist? I figure all that allusiveness in his pictures - to optical art, to pop art, to photography, to portraiture - pegs him not only as a virtuoso manipulator of genres, but as their gleeful analyst and demystifier.
He doesn’t deny it exactly, but points out, with a certain Cran-ish wryness, on the phone from his studio in Calgary, that “there’s the pleasure of them too.” For a painter whose work seems so elaborately planned and carefully worked up, it’s disarming to hear him stress that part of his practice “is simply asking myself what I feel like doing today.”
Libby Pratt
I just found out that my friend Libby Pratt is a photographer, and that she’s good too.
Julie and Julia
Gabrielle Cran (my girlfriend) helped make this movie about Julia Child and Julie Powell. It's really great, Meryl Streep is amazing, and every scene makes you hungry. You should see it.
MUSEO XI
Check out the new issue of MUSEO with articles on Cory Archangel, Dan Graham, Paola Pivi, Abraham Cruzvilleas, Jonan Freeman, and the architecture of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saint.
Angela Co at Eyebeam
Check out Angela Co's Weather Making Balloon. It's an airborne interactive media installation that will debut at the Eyebeam Art and Technology Atelier’s Mixer.
Jeff Kipnis Presents Coop Himmelblau
My former teacher / spritual adviser Jeff Kipnis has curated this retrospective of the work of Coop Himmelblau:
COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
BEYOND THE BLUE
Thu, Apr 2 - Sun, July 26, 2009
Wexner Center Galleries
The innovative approach of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU permeates buildings, ideas about urban planning, and even the name of this influential Viennese architectural firm.
“Coop” signals the firm’s identity as a cooperative. “Himmelb(l)au” offers the double meanings of “sky blue” (with the “l”) and “sky building” (without). Launched in May 1968, COOP HIMMELB(L)AU has never yielded the radical fervor of its founding moment and consistently rejected preconceived notions of design across 40 years of exquisite, experimental plans and constructions. Among its recent projects are the double cone structure of the new BMW center (BMW Welt) in Munich, the eye-catching addition to the Akron Art Museum, and the dramatic headquarters for the European Central Bank in Frankfurt.
The Wexner Center is proud to host the U.S. debut of this exhibition from MAK in Vienna, one of the world’s leading museums of contemporary art and design. In it, you’ll have the opportunity to study several projects in depth in large-scale models and to survey small models of many more projects displayed on an oversize model table. Recalling an urban landscape plan, this display strategy evokes the firm’s belief in architecture’s need to address spatial possibilities, while also reflecting design principal Wolf Prix’s passionate critique of contemporary urban planning. Choreographed light and film sequences add to the rich visual experience. Jeffrey Kipnis, professor of architecture at Ohio State, is the exhibition’s consulting curator.
Organized by MAK—Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna.
Parrish Rash
Le Chaise Grotesque by Hernan Diaz Alonso
My friends at Parrish | Rash (the go-to firm for art and architecture fabrication) have a new website featuring their work for the likes of Zaha Hadid, James Turrell, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Etc..
New Columbia GSAPP Website
Check out the NEW Columbia GSAPP Website designed by my classmate Gabe Bach.
Grasshopper Primer
Andy Payne put together this comprehensive manual documenting the Rhino plugin Grasshopper. Truly a necessity. Find it here.
Kevin West on Brad Pitt
Kevin West's profile of Brad Pitt graces the cover of the latest W Magazine.
BRAD PITT
WITH A CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED NEW FILM—AND A PERSONAL LIFE THAT’S ALMOST SINGLE-HANDEDLY KEEPING THE TABLOIDS IN BUSINESS—BRAD PITT IS MASTERING THE ART OF SUPERSTARDOM.
By Kevin West
Photographs by Chuck Close February 2009
To be Brad Pitt is to know the bowels of hotels: the hidden mazes of back entrances, subterranean passages and service elevators daily trudged by housekeepers and room service waiters—and sometimes traveled by a VIP guest who needs secret conveyance to his suite. Thirty minutes before Pitt is scheduled to arrive at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood on a Friday afternoon in December, his private security detail is scouting a route through the basement and issuing brisk instructions to hotel staff. In an earlier era, the mood of tense anticipation would have suggested the arrival of a political candidate, or perhaps a kingpin in illicit commodities, but today’s advance preparations are just for a 45-year-old actor, albeit one whose fame calls for an impervious security bubble to thwart overeager fans and aggressive photographers. Intensifying the situation is the fact that, a few days earlier, Pitt said on television that he “hates” the paparazzi—an arguably gratuitous comment, since, who didn’t already know that? “Now,” he announces when he blows through the door of the 12th-floor suite, motorcycle helmet in hand and aviator glasses still on his face, “they’re out for me.”
Continue Reading on Wmagazine.com
TM Davy
TM is a Renaissance Master.
Tasting Table
My friend Geoff Bartokovics just launched this daily mailing about food culture in New York:
Tasting Table is a free daily email that delivers the best of New York food culture to adventurous eaters everywhere. Each weekday, we send our subscribers one delicious idea about dining, wine, cocktails, cooking or restaurant personalities. We feed you only local, first-hand recommendations-one bite at a time.
Whether it’s a must-try dish at a forgotten restaurant, a recipe for a seasonal cocktail or an essential new ingredient, we’ve got it covered. We’re the friend you always ask, “Where should I eat tonight?” We’re your food-obsessed coworker who knows where to find the best $2 tacos and which $200 tasting menu is worth the splurge. And, like you, we’re serious omnivores who don’t take ourselves too seriously.
Hungry yet? Take your seat at the Tasting Table by subscribing today-for free.
Technicolor Bloom
I had just recently seen this project, Technicolor Bloom, about a week ago, and within a few days I found myself in running around Mexico with the designer, Brennan Buck. He’s a talented young gun now teaching at Yale.
Maximillian’s Schell
I’ve always liked the installation, Maximillian’s Schell, but I gained a newfound respect for it after hanging out with designer Benjamin Ball of Ball Nogues and seeing the process and detail that went into the design.
C.U.P. Presents: The Internet Is Serious Business
Have you ever wondered how the Internet’s physical infrastructure works? Who owns it and why that might matter? Please join us for the debut of CUP’s latest Urban Investigation:
“The Internet Is Serious Business”
CUP Teaching Artist Helki Frantzen and students from City-As-School worked with the People’s Production House Digital Expansion Initiative to produce this video about the huge networks of cables, routers, and servers that we call the Internet. The screening will be followed by a short panel discussion with spectrum advocate Dharma Dailey, People’s Production House Policy Director Josh Breitbart, and City Council Member and Chair of the NYC Broadband Advisory Committee Gale Brewer.
The Internet Is Serious Business
Tuesday, September 30 at 7:30 pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at 2nd St.)
New York, NY
F/V to 2nd Ave
Free and open to the public.
Seating is limited. Please RSVP to info@anothercupdevelopment.org
Isa Wipfli Shoots Cover Story for Intersection Magazine
Isa Wipfli took these amazing photos of powerboat racers for this months Intersection magazine.
Robert Tannen Stardust
My friend and mentor Bob Tannen has an exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art:
Southern Masters Series: Robert Tannen Stardust: Objects, Ideas and Proposals
A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Robert Tannen decades ago embraced his adopted home of New Orleans, La. Working as an artist, engineer, urban planner and social activist. His mixed media work encompasses themes of love, loss, preservation, environment and change. This exhibition is part of the Ogden’s ongoing Southern Masters series, which showcases the works of artists who have made longstanding contributions to the region.A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Robert Tannen decades ago embraced his adopted home of New Orleans, La. Working as an artist, engineer, urban planner and social activist. His mixed media work encompasses themes of love, loss, preservation, environment and change. This exhibition is part of the Ogden’s ongoing Southern Masters series, which showcases the works of artists who have made longstanding contributions to the region.
Autoforma
My friend Robert Mezquiti has a new office and website: Autoforma