drawings + paintings by heather ripley + a lot of art not by her. you know, art works.
[all works not otherwise attributed, by link or textual reference, are the property of the author, heather ripley.] © 2012 Heather Ripley
Manhattan Bridge December 2012, by Chris Ozer
A feature on today’s Tumblr Tuesday, Chris Ozer’s photography blog is definitely worth a look or two or twenty (you get it). While Ozer’s work is excellent (I like the element of vastness in his images), the timing for this realization could not be worse: tax research waits for no one. Sigh.
All of my good ideas are battles - Adam Katz
I was asked to create a typographic solution for Stefan Sagmeister’s prompt of Things that I have learned in my life. My solution was to spray paint over 1,500 little green plastic army men day-glo orange and affix them to a window store front in New York City with my saying “All of my good ideas are battles.” The piece remained up at 136 West 21st for over a month.
February 16, 2013, was the 23rd anniversary of Keith Haring’s death. In his memory, Lori Zimmer has posted this great tour of some of his greatest NYC murals on Flavorwire.
(the mural pictured is still kickin’)
Amanda Browder is on that next level quilting joint, son.
Art Nerd New York is a self-proclaimed “off beat guide to New York City art and art history.” Created by lovely art-obsessed lady, Lori Zimmer, the site is also a worthy distraction from work and more constructive way to pass time than scrolling through mash-ups of, say, Breaking Bad and cat videos.
Check it out!
In his project, Tout bien rangé, French artist Armelle Caron breaks down well-known cities block-by-block and orderly rearranges them as “graphic anagrams.”
Warhol at Gristedes by Bob Adelman, 1965.
Those were some very iconic groceries.
New York, from Lu Xinjian’s “City DNA” series, abstract paintings of cities inspired by Google Earth aerial views.
This work is some great inspiration for the New York-related painting I’ve agreed to do for my friend. (Click the photo to see some of the other cities.) I am fascinated by Xinjian’s “reduction” of such complicated metropolises to geometric abstractions: his ability to render our homes unfamiliar while yet hinting at their core characters.
Day 1 of Art Everyday: Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
To “support my local arts scene” - one of the 31 tasks for GOOD Magazine’s Art Everyday challenge, I set out for Broadway to see Arthur Miller’s classic Death of a Salesman. Philip Seymour Hoffman nailed it as Willy Loman, deftly spanning the range of Willy’s mercurial temperament: charismatic, pathetic, proud, depressed, delusional, optimistic, and so on. Andrew Garfield, the guy who wasn’t Mark Zuckerberg (or those handsome twins) in The Social Network, tried hard to keep up as Willy’s son Biff. He acted well enough, but I could have done with a little less of the hollering-makes-me-intense shtick.
Seeing the play last night makes me want to read it again. My flappable allegiance swung back and forth almost as much as Willy’s moods. And, I hope, more than when I first read the play as a kid, a teenager, that I appreciate what Arthur Miller gave us - who Willy Loman is and not just what he represents. Did I even know what I was reading then? Was it anything other than an academic exercise in conflicts and diction and denouement? Because now I think it could be.
Metronome in Union Square, NYC.
