Rima Suqi

The more you write about stuff, the less stuff you want. I want for almost nothing, but damn, I’d love a set of these Seven Deadly Sins tumblers, designed by Stefan Sagmeister. He also did seven heavenly virtues but I personally prefer sins, and judging from the last line of the Lobmeyr release, I think they do as well:  “Can the pleasant surprise of a pair of beautiful breasts at the bottom of your glass start a discussion about Good and Evil at the dinner table? Cheers to that.”

They’re $2,415 for the set at TableArt in LA (or $305 each at Barneys). Check them out here.

I was going through a plethora of emails for holiday gift guide merch, when I ran across one from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Scroll, scroll, blah, blah and then this:

WHAT? SERIOUSLY?  A coloring book featuring images of Bill Murray. Yes, THAT Bill Murray. I mean, what could be more perfect?

Who are these people who commissioned artists (including Nicholas Stevenson, Anneka Lange, Murray Somerville, Donald Ely, Hattie Stewart, Bridget Meyne, Tobias Hall, Tilly W, Lucy Ketchin, Mike Force, Rich Fairhead, Mary Cheung, Sean Wars, Mary-Louise Plum, Sam Morrison, Logan Fitzpatrick, Catherine Askew, Michael Kilkelly, Brooke Olsen, Chris Arrowsmith, Jonny Packham, Jaypee Murray, James Burgess, Thomas Key and Nathan Dirienzo) to create 23 illustrations of Bill Murray that can then be desecrated by anyone with a crayon?

(for the record, they’re Brits. I cannot believe that Brits – BRITS — beat us to this one).

Buy it here.

I was at a friend’s house the other day, and hanging in her bathroom was a note she wrote to one of her teachers when she was in grammar school. Apparently, at her school, if you were too embarrassed to ask a question during health class, you could write a note to the teacher, who would then address the issue. (So not the case at my school).  I thought this note was so adorable/innocent/funny (especially the part about it being “sick to inercorse”), I had to post it.

If you’re one of the 3 people in town on weekends (like me), David Zwirner gallery is having Donald Judd movie day on June 25th.

From their release:

The Artist’s Studio: Donald Judd
Produced and directed by Michael Blackwood
10:30am–12:30pm
Film will be shown as a 30-minute loop

Marfa Voices
Directed by Rainer Judd for Judd Foundation
1pm, 3pm, 5pm

Each screening will be introduced by the filmmaker, with a Q&A session to follow.  A public reception follows the 5pm screening.

Seating is limited & RSVP is required
Mackie Healy at David Zwirner
212 727 2070 x122 or mackie@davidzwirner.com

David Zwirner is pleased to present a special day-long event of film screenings on Saturday, June 25, the last day of the Donald Judd exhibition, which spans the gallery’s spaces at 525 and 533 West 19th Street. In October 2010, David Zwirner announced the representation of Judd Foundation (www.juddfoundation.org).

The Artist’s Studio: Donald Judd (2010, 30 minutes), produced and directed by independent filmmaker Michael Blackwood, has recently been compiled from footage from unused material for two previous films: American Art in the 1960s, filmed in 1972; and Masters of Modern Sculpture: Part III The New World, in production between 1975 and 1978. The Artist’s Studio: Donald Judd begins in the summer of 1972 when the art historian Barbara Rose interviewed Judd at 101 Spring Street, his home and studio in New York’s SoHo neighborhood. The film also includes interviews and footage of the artist and his family from September 1975 in Marfa, a remote, small town in western Texas where Judd set up a home and studio and, later, other spaces to permanently install artworks.

Marfa Voices (2010, 25 minutes), a short documentary film by Judd’s daughter Rainer, portrays an intimate and unique view of the artist. A graduate of New York University in Film, Ms. Judd has worked with directors such as Francis Coppola and Gus Van Sant, both in front of and behind the camera. She became a co-executor of the Judd Estate in 1994. In 1996 she became a founding trustee of Judd Foundation and now serves as President of the Board. Since 2006, she has overseen Judd Foundation’s Oral History Project, an ongoing extensive film project that documents interviews with individuals who each have unique and invaluable perspectives into Donald Judd’s artistic philosophy and working method. 85 interviews have been conducted to date.

One of the most influential artists of the 20th Century, Judd shared his artistic vision and process with those working around him, including assistants, fabricators, friends, dealers, and many of the most prominent artists, scholars, and collectors of the time. The film, Marfa Voices, which Ms. Judd co-directed with Karen Bernstein, features excerpts from these interviews and comprises a collection of vivid anecdotes and personal reflections by Marfa residents who had special connections to both Judd’s artistic practice and his life as a townsperson for nearly 20 years.

In addition, at the June 25 screenings at David Zwirner, Ms. Judd will debut excerpts from a selection of interviews from the Oral History Project that focus on New York, including those conducted with artists and other individuals involved in the art world from the 1960s through the 1980s.

Appearing in Marfa Voices are:
Robert Arber, printmaker
Joe Brady, Jr., musician/bagpiper, played at Judd’s funeral
Jack Brunson, retired border patrolman
Paula Cooper, New York art dealer
Susan Davidoff, artist
Jamie Dearing, artist and designer, worked with Judd from the late 1960s until his death
Dudley Del Balso, Judd’s studio manager
Boyd Elder, artist
Julie Finch, dancer and Judd’s former wife
Rosario Halpern, Marfa newspaper co-owner
Will Hernandez, life-long Marfa resident and cattle truck driver
Maiya Keck, restaurateur and artist
Tigie Lancaster, social worker
Mary Lou and Oscar Martinez, nurse and utility lineman
Alfredo Mediano, builder, worked with Judd since he was in high school
Lorina Naegele, gardener and cook
David Novros, artist
Michael Roch, teacher and artist
Carl Ryan, lawyer
Billy Spencer, landscape designer, born and raised in Marfa
Elia Spragg, café owner
Alice Stevens, photographer
Brit Webb, school principal and mechanic

Of course I’ve forgotten which Hamptons gallery had this “PUTA” in the window – but some digging revealed it is by Aldo Chaparro

The Soumaya Museum in Mexico City is finally done. I had a hard hat tour of the space last December while in the DF.  Was supposed to be toured by the architect Fernando Romero (or co-architect as he’s calling himself) and his PR person, but both seemed to forget about our appointment (welcome to the DF where this type of behavior is semi normal).  It was annoying but I love a hard hat tour  –

A wrapped-up Rodin piece in the midst of construction (that’s glass artist Orfeo Quagliata posing with it)

A pair of chairs upholstered in of-the-moment plaid. By Pierre Guariche.

Lauren Hutton as photographed by Jack Pierson. That’s Alexis on the left of Lauren, Jack on the right.

Here’s the poster – I shot this w/my phone and it was during the snowstorm so the wrinkles are the paper, not her face. That said, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of photoshop happening on the shot:

Lighting designer Robert Lewis:

Someone I have known for a long time and who was recently discovered by Commune Design, who used his lamps in the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs and other projects. He works with a huge variety of materials. I’m currently in love with his mica pieces:

here’s a sconce unlit:

and lit

I also love this lamp he did for a private residence in L.A. – the residence in its entirety will be appearing very soon in an interiors magazine (in article written by yours truly).

One of my faves, from Andrew Raible: