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Archive for July, 2009
—Citroën DS

The Citroën DS is an executive car produced by the French manufacturer Citroën between 1955 and 1975. Styled by Italian sculptor and industrial designer Flaminio Bertoni.
Colin McDowell

This man has a solid take on elegance:
“The future for elegance is just that, the future, with few backward glances and no overly fastidious references to the past, otherwise it becomes that most degraded of all things in any artistic cannon: pastiche.”
More at A Blog Curated By.
Givenchy

Beautiful model.
Ray, Charles

Maybe the contester of the most sublime thing to be featured on this blog. Maybe I should have a vote for most sublime thing of the year?
Jerry Saltz: “Ink Line, the best and showiest of the three works, is a sculpture / drawing / fountain consisting of a stream of jet-black ink pouring from a dime-size hole in the ceiling into a dime-size hole in the floor. Initially Ink Line looks like a strand of yarn strung the height of the gallery, a pulsating Fred Sandback sculpture, a free-floating Barnett Newman zip or a disembodied Sol LeWitt. Get close and you’ll realize the line is liquid, glimmering, the consistency of syrup, moving fairly fast, fluctuating slightly, and thinner at the bottom than at the top. The ink forms a weird climatological aura around itself, slightly changing the humidity of the room. I was blown away when I was allowed to see the elaborate apparatus that makes this simple effect possible. There was a large, noisy electric motor in the showroom beneath this gallery, all sorts of wiring, and plastic tubes that go under the floor, behind the wall, and above the ceiling. A gallery assistant arrives two hours early each day to drain the ink, “de-gas” it (!?), heat it with lamps to between 90 and 95 degrees, and put it back into the system. Anyone who looks at Ink Line can figure out how it works — yet the piece is as much a phenomenological event and a mystery as it is a work of formalist sculpture.”
Alpha
—- Paris Fashion Shows
- Impulse
- Lake Kaindy
- Children at sea
- a minima
- ANP Quarterly
- David Platzker
- Elegantly Wasted
- The Corduroy Appreciation Club
- Dragonflies mating
- Industrial Facility
- Russian napalm caves
- Harwell Hamilton Harris
- Centre for the Aesthetic Revolution
- Moldovian frescoes
Echo
—- Erdös, Paul
- Elgin Marbles
- Eames, Charles and Ray
- Emden, Max
- Eyebrows, Thick
- Elephant polo
- Eyemo
- Edward VII sex chair
- Emberley, Ed
- Eberhardt, Isabelle
- Edström, Anders
- Eco, Umberto
- Educating Rita
- Eremitage Palace
- El Ejido greenhouses
India
—- Inception
- Izu Islands
- Indian Head test card
- Imco
- Ireland Shakespeare forgeries
- Ivory-billed Woodpecker
- Isole di Brissago
- Indian Runner Duck
- It’s The Sun Wot Won It
Mike
—- Moondog
- Mouille, Serge
- Machado, China
- Mordanova, Ranya
- Mount Meru
- Mccallum, Kelly
- Marino, Marlene
- Belmore, Edwige
- Mari, Enzo
- Medem, Julio
- Meyer, Tobias
- McGinley, Ryan
- Miller House
- Malraux, André
- McDaris, Glynnis
Quebec
—Uniform
—- Ubari
- Under the Influence
- Ustinov, Peter
- Uslu Airlines
- Underwater hockey
- Ugland House
- Ungar, Stu
- Uccello, Paolo
- Udaff.com
Yankee
—- Yamamoto, Yohji
- Yule goat
- Younghusband, Francis
- Yakhchal
- Yoshiyuki, Iwase
- Yahnker, Eric
- Yucatán underwater caves
- Youmans, Edward L.
Bravo
—- Brancusi, Constantin
- Beart, Emmanuelle
- Barragán, Luis
- Bertoli, Giasco
- Boyd, William
- Blaisse, Maria
- Boubat, Edouard
- Barolo
- Burckhardt, Jacob
- Boeing 2707
- Buckland, William
- Basquiat, Jean-Michel
- Burning Deck
- Brinicle
- Bely, Andrei
Foxtrot
—- Fermor, Patrick Leigh
- Florigraphy
- Ferrari, Marilena
- Fraser Island
- Fleur de sel
- Fancy poultry
- Fludd, Robert
- Fasciation
- Ferret legging
- François, André
- Fischer, Urs
- Fa’afafine
- Father Divine
- Flying carpets
- Foxton, Simon
Juliet
—- Japanese Brazilian
- Jorgensen, Christine
- Jabuticaba
- Journal of the History of Collections
- Janssens, Ann Veronica
- Jaguar E-Type
- Jan Mot
- Journal des dames et des modes
- Janus head
- Jullian, Philippe
- Jantar Mantar
- JJJJound
- Jamón ibérico
- Journal Particules
- John Rigby & Co.
November
—- Nemo 33
- Nest
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Netter, Frank H.
- Noguchi Museum
- Noailles, Marie-Laure de
- Nikifor
- Neuenschwander, Rivane
- Nureyev, Rudolf
- Naegeli, Harald
- Nijinsky, Vaslav
- Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
- Nelson, George
- Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit
- Nabokov, Vladimir
Romeo
—- Ryōan-ji
- Reversal of Fortune
- Roxelana
- Rubirosa, Porfirio
- Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel
- Rey, Lana Del
- Ruote Borrani
- Rotari, Pietro
- Roadside Geology
- Reticulate whipray
- Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus
- Ruff, Thomas
- Rettenberger, Johann
- Ramana
- Rodenstock, Hardy
Victor
—- Varosha
- Villa Campolieto
- Vegetable Lamb of Tartary
- VVV magazine
- Valentino, Rudolph
- Volvelle
- Viaggio a Tulum
- Valade, Aymeline
- Veruschka
- Villa Necchi Campiglio
- Villa d’Este
- Villa Lante
- Vera, Federico De
- Vreeland, Diana
- Villa Torlonia
Zulu
—- Afghan hounds
- Zurlini, Valerio
- Zötl, Aloys
- Zurbarán, Francisco
- Zaharoff, Basil
- Zubr class LCAC
- Zouave
- Żuławski, Andrzej
- Zoot Suit Riots
- Zukofsky, Louis
Charlie
—- Cercle de l’Union interalliée
- Clark House
- Cassavetes, John
- Cabinet
- Carter, Shawn
- Catwalk
- Common basilisk
- Cendrars, Blaise
- Cordoba Fighting Dog
- Cruikshank, Sally
- Castiglioni, Achille
- Clevin, Jørgen
- Crosby, Harry
- Caillebotte, Gustave
- Comme des Garcons
Golf
—- Grotta dello Smeraldo
- General Butt Naked
- Gowin, Emmet
- Great Siberian Ice March
- Girlfriends
- Gallo, Vincent
- Grange, Jacques
- Goude, Jean-Paul
- Guinness, Daphne
- Garmento
- Gimpel, Leon
- Globe of Peace
- Gastronomica
- Gracq, Julien
- Gascoigne, Paul
Kilo
—- Kabakov, Ilya
- Kalash
- Khinalug
- Klimowski, Andrjez
- Kinman, Seth
- Katsui, Mitsuo
- Kylián, Jiří
- Kaiping Diaolou
- Kirkwood, Nicholas
- Khan As’ad Pasha
- Koons, Jeff
- al-Kassar, Monzer
- King, Kate
- Kalighat painting
- Kengir uprising
Oscar
—- Omersa
- O’Brien, Glenn
- Oracle bone
- Onagadori
- Owen, Kirsten
- Ortega, Fernando
- Origo, Iris
- Oarfish
- Ordos City
- Orient Express
- Orozco, Gabriel
- Okapi
- Offshore powerboat racing
- Orford Ness
- Opificio delle Pietre Dure e Laboratori di Restauro
Sierra
—- Sitwell, George
- Spirograph
- Sagan, Carl
- Sacconi, Simone Fernando
- Silphium
- Spotted Handfish
- Schröder-Sonnenstern, Friedrich
- Schiller, Friedrich
- Sheen, Charlie
- Scent of the Vanishing Flora
- Sanzhi UFO houses
- Sandoz, Edouard-Marcel
- Sassoferrato, Giovanni Battista Salvi da
- Scarpa, Carlo
- Suriname
Whiskey
—- Auguste Racinet
- Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center
- Strom Thurmond
- Nice image
- Steven Heller
- Syntax
- Fluctuat
- Phil Niblock
- Robert Geller
- New York Model Management
- Bo Harwood
- Charvet
- Judean date palm
- Cartography
- Regency Arts Press
Delta
—- Dibbern, George
- Dumont, Bruno
- Deakin, John
- Doisneau, Robert
- Duprat, Hubert
- Deir el-Bahari
- David, Jaques-Louis
- Dracaena draco
- Duino
- Depardieu, Guillaume
- Diplomatic bags
- Dean, Tacita
- Dar Sebastian
- Deadvlei
- Demeulemeester, Ann
Hotel
—- Hopi Kachina dolls
- Hurley, Frank
- Harlem Globetrotters
- Hopper, Dennis
- Hoover Dam
- Huysmans, Joris-Karl
- Haeckel, Ernst
- Hausswolff, Annika von
- Hanna
- Hugo, Richard
- d’Hondecoeter, Melchior
- Hmong people
- Harry’s Bar
- Hoffmeister, Adolf
- Hemingway, Dree
Lima
—- Larson, Lisa
- Laffoley, Paul
- Liebling, A. J.
- Love is the Devil
- Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant
- Lang, Helmut
- Lindsay, Vachel
- Lee, Gypsy Rose
- Leopardi, Giacomo
- Lift
- Linn LM-1
- Lermontov, Mikhail
- Livraison
- Leaving Las Vegas
- Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk
Papa
—- Prambanan
- Punkin Chunkin, World Championship
- Port Said
- Portago, Alfonso de
- Pemberton, Max
- Picasso, Pablo (The Dog)
- Prince Aly Khan
- Porer lighthouse
- Pinget, Robert
- Patagonia
- Potter, Dean
- Ponte City Apartments
- Poussin, Nicolas
- Perdues Dans New York
- Poell, Carol Christian
Tango
—- Tichý, Miroslav
- Tomatsu, Shomei
- Tanner, Alain
- Takaez, Toshiko
- The Art of Eating
- Tri-bridge
- Tilden, Bill
- Trujillo, Rafael
- Theophilus London
- Tesla, Nikola
- Teeth, Gap between your
- Turing, Alan
- Tintin and Alph-Art
- Tanizaki, Jun’ichirō
- Tōhaku, Hasegawa











