If you’re really into shoes, check out Jonathan Wolford’s new Shoes A-Z: Designers, Brand, Manufacturers and Retailers. Best of all, it features TenOverSix co-owner Kristen Lee!
Shoes A-Z: Designers, Brand, Manufacturers and Retailers is available pretty much everywhere books are sold, both online and IRL.
1 comment January 11th, 2011
We just got in some great books for the Holiday from Book Soup. Included in this selection are Houdini: Art and Magic and Yves Klein: With The Void, Full Powers. If you’re even sort of into Houdini, you’ll drool over Houdini: Art and Magic. It showcases a selection of his personal effects, included pages from his journal, and performance props and photographs, all part of a traveling exhibit about the man himself. In addition to great historical imagery, interviews with novelist E. L. Doctorow, magician Teller, and contemporary artists Raymond Pettibon and Matthew Barney add to the wealth of information on Houdini and his influence from the late 19th century to the present.
Yves Klein: With The Void, Full Powers, of course drenched in International Klein Blue (even the edges of the pages have been painted), is a collection of images and essays not only about Klein, but also about the artistic movements and history he worked within, influenced, and helped to start. I like to give Klein’s work a hard time, because so much of the best known pieces involved naked chicks who’ve had to roll around in the, uh, liquid (paint) he created, but this book does a good job of showing Klein’s theoretical and aesthetic expansion. Turns out, Klein was way more than just blue- and boob-obsessed.
Add comment December 17th, 2010
It’s 80 degrees in LA right now. You could go to the beach to celebrate this, but then you’d probably find yourself in a crazy amount of IT’S 80 DEGRESS IN DECEMBER OMG traffic. If you’re not lucky enough to have a pool at home (or if you are, because I’m pretty sure yours doesn’t have a sick light show), may I suggest a dip in Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida’s “psychedelic swimming pool,” officially titled Cosmococa–Programa in Progress, CC4 Nocagions, currently up at The Geffen Contemporary.
“Psychedelic swimming pool?” you may ask. “In a museum?” Well, the MOCA has put together Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space, the first major museum show to “situate pioneering Latin American artists among the international canon of those working with light and space” by recreating large installations by the likes of Carlos Cruz Diez, Lucio Fontana, Julio Le Parc, Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida, and Jesús Rafael Soto. While I certainly have reservations about a show that places Latin American artists within a larger contemporary art context by showing them with…other Latin American artists exclusively, this is definitely a rare chance to see some major, influential works.
The word suprasenorial was first used by Oiticica to describe the all-consuming nature of his installations. The use of the word “installations” here is actually sort of questionable; really, what these artists do is use light and color to create environments that make the audience, by walking through them, as integral a part of the work as what was made by the artist. I’d say it’s safe to assume that you don’t become part of a work without having a pretty epic experience in it, and really, if you’ve seen or are familiar with light works by non-Latin-North American and European artists, this show will blow your senses out of the water. I guess literally?
Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space is up at the Geffen Contemporary until February 27, 2011.
Add comment December 12th, 2010
Julian Hoeber, who I became totally obsessed with upon viewing his video Killing Friends for the first time, has put together Demon Hill at The Hammer Museum. Based on “gravitational mystery spots,” his installation mixes high art and slightly more low-end spectacle right in line with the rest of his work (a self-aware video about sex and murder; busts of the artist that have been blasted with shotguns). This time, however, the audience in right in the middle of the action, and his exploration of the line between real and staged experience forces even the most logical mind to question itself. (Come on, we’ve all been to Knott’s Berry Farm and seriously wondered how they got a marble to roll up.)
Julian Hoeber’s Demon Hill is up at The Hammer Museum until January 23. We’re still in the midst of The Hammer’s 20 days of free admission, so the only reason to not attend would be a weak stomach.
Add comment December 4th, 2010
In light of the holidays, we’re really feelin’ red pumps today.
First, we have our red suede pumps, Kat, in Lipstick Red, back in stock just in time for all of your holiday parties.
We created this pump at the request of one of our favorite fashion friends, Christene Barberich (amazing editor for Refinery29, NY Times, etc..), and she was right on the money. They were such a big hit last year, we’ve re-issued them.
Second, there’s this beyond gorgeous ’50s-themed short chiller starring fabulous red pumps on Bryce Dallas Howard (accented by red lips and, of course, red hair) by one of our fave photographers, Alex Prager.
Add comment November 26th, 2010
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