Andrea Cochran signing tonight, Peter Miller Books in Seattle · 3 February, 02:54 PM by Archlog
Andrea Cochran will be signing copies of her book Andrea Cochran: Landscapes tonight at Peter Miller Books in Seattle, WA from 5:30-7:30PM PST.
Another one bites the dust... · 16 December, 10:32 AM by Archlog
Mediabistro announces that I.D. Magazine is closing down
Professions to avoid · 15 December, 02:00 PM by Archlog
Happy not to see book publishing on the government’s list of the top 10 industries with the largest wage and salary declines, 2008-18, but both newspaper publishing and printing are there, so the barbarians at the gate.
Metropolitan Home shut down · 10 November, 11:17 AM by Archlog
Hachette today announced that they are closing down Metropolitan Home magazine to focus their energies on Elle Décor, leaving the once-crowded shelter mag rack at the grocery stop with a bit more breathing room.
Steven Holl's Linked Hybrid awarded Best Tall Building of 2009 · 29 October, 11:53 AM by Archlog
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitats last week named Steven Holl’s Linked Hybrid Building the best building of 2009. Linked Hybrid is also featured in Holl’s latest monograph, Urbanisms, Working with Doubt, just published.
Blair Kamin covers the story in the Chicago Tribune
Two book parties for Lettering and Type · 28 October, 02:09 PM by Archlog
To celebrate the release of the latest book in the acclaimed Design Brief series, Lettering and Type, there are two parties: One at MICA in Baltimore tomorrow, Thursday October 29, and the other in New York City at the Cooper Union on November 17. Full details at the Lettering and Type website
Terrence Riley stepping down as director of Miami Art Museum · 26 October, 05:19 PM by Archlog
Plans to focus his energies on his pratice, Keenen/Riley. Would-be museum directors, polish up your resumés!
Another sane review of the Kahlo book · 5 October, 10:43 AM by Archlog
One that doesn’t involve taking sides or collating quotes from detractors and denouncers, at the the generally excellent artmoco website. While noting that the authenticity of the materials are still in dispute, they right conclude, “this book is more about the very notion of personal archives and collections than the famous Mexican artist. How are we reflected in what we leave behind?”
The Kahlo controversy doesn't stop · 30 September, 10:46 PM by Archlog
A balanced view here, more biased pieces on the BBC and the New York Times. But as much as I was starting to doubt the old maxim “any press is good press,” it could be true; the book rose to #328 on amazon.com’s ranking. “The Week Behind review”“:http://bit.ly/10hOnk (also linked above) summarizes the brouhaha best: “Whether the art experts of the world authenticate this Kahlo find or not, the book Finding Frida Kahlo is a remarkable portrait of an artist and her life.”
Kahlo controversy characterized as a "Mexican stand-off" · 15 September, 01:50 PM by Archlog
The Herald of Scotland describes the feud raging over the archive of materials believed to belong to Frida Kahlo and present in our book Finding Frida Kahlo like something out of a spaghetti western, a shoot-out between rival gangs, the Kahlo “mafia” on one side and a small-town antiques dealer on the other. One of the detractors of the collection, New York dealer Mary-Anne Martin, is quoted in the article as saying that the word “bisexual” was not used in the 1940s, other than to mean hermaphrodite. Once again, Martin has not done her homework: although not in common use until the 1950s, the term was used as early as 1914 to mean attracted to both sexes. More a propos, the article states that Martin has sold single pages from a Kahlo diary for as much as $200,000 each, so the sudden appearance of more than 1200 new items including numerous diaries and sketchbooks surely deflates the value of those earlier pieces, plus whatever Martin is holding in the back room. As in politics, following the money would surely illuminate the foundations of this “stand-off.”