Best of Tumblr Fridays!
Friday, December 19, 2008
The highlights from the past week on my Tumblr blog.
The best thing this week was definitely the NY Public Library's addition to the Flickr Commons. The collection included this phenomenal set of photos of New York City in 1935, taken by the great American photographer Bernice Abbott.
(Wouldn't it be nice to see some programs like that spring up in 2009, to help get us through these tough economic times?)
NYTimes Review of the new Sol LeWitt exhibition at Mass MoCA
"The Conceptual artist Sol LeWitt, who died last year, was our Fra Angelico. And the three-story 19th-century mill here, housing a survey of his panoramic wall drawings, is our Museo di San Marco: a building full of art conceived by one artist, executed by many hands, devoted to big ideas."
My younger sister actually worked on installing this incredible show; and I'll be seeing it in person tomorrow.
And - as if you needed more proof, Barack Obama is one bad-a-- motherf---er...
The best thing this week was definitely the NY Public Library's addition to the Flickr Commons. The collection included this phenomenal set of photos of New York City in 1935, taken by the great American photographer Bernice Abbott.
Photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) proposed Changing New York, her grand project to document New York City, to the Federal Art Project (FAP) in 1935. The FAP was a Depression-era government program for unemployed artists and workers in related fields such as advertising, graphic design, illustration, photofinishing, and publishing.
(Wouldn't it be nice to see some programs like that spring up in 2009, to help get us through these tough economic times?)
NYTimes Review of the new Sol LeWitt exhibition at Mass MoCA
"The Conceptual artist Sol LeWitt, who died last year, was our Fra Angelico. And the three-story 19th-century mill here, housing a survey of his panoramic wall drawings, is our Museo di San Marco: a building full of art conceived by one artist, executed by many hands, devoted to big ideas."
My younger sister actually worked on installing this incredible show; and I'll be seeing it in person tomorrow.
And - as if you needed more proof, Barack Obama is one bad-a-- motherf---er...
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