Category Archives: Art

June 18, 2012 · 3:03 pm

ARTmonday: Caitlin McGauley

You’ve probably seen Caitlin McGauley’s work without even realizing it. She’s done sassy watercolors for Lonny and limited edition prints of luscious interiors for Kate Spade, and even portraits on the spot for chichi style events in New York. Her work is as appealing as her own visage—pretty, spirited, and stylish. She captures the likenesses of strangers on the street, well-known fashion icons, elephants in India, tasseled necklaces, charming foodstuffs, and rooms galore, which are my definite favorites.

While most of her limited edition prints are sold out, you can get an almost daily dose of her cheerful renditions of everyday life on her blog, Caitlin’s Sketchbook.

Caitlin McGauley

Living Room, Summer Series

Tory Burch

Collector’s Room, Spring Series

Necklaces, Summer Series

Vintage Interior

Kate Spade

Elephant

Grammercy Park, Winter Series

Red Room, Winter Series

New York Junior League House Tour

Rachel Zoe

private commission

personal work

Girl at the Party, Summer Series

Rosé

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June 12, 2012 · 10:44 pm

MoMA’s Open Call for NYC Designers

MoMA has put out an open call to designers based in New York City.

While designers from all over the world can submit items year round, this is the first time the MoMA Store has specifically asked designers in New York City for American made products.

The MoMA Design Store is inviting local designers living and working in the city’s five boroughs to submit items for a product collection launching in 2013. Product categories will include, but are not limited to, paper (note cards, postcards, journals), home (tabletop, kitchen, home textiles, desk, gadgets/tools), kids’, games and toys, and personal accessories (bags, jewelry, scarves, wallets, pouches, and other small accessories), furniture (wall clocks, stools, lighting), and books.

In order for your submission to be considered, products must already be in, or close to, production, manufactured in the continental United States, and able to be delivered to MoMA in saleable condition. Visit MoMAStore.org/NYC for more information about the submission process. Deadline: June 30, 2012.

Let me know if you plan to submit, or if you’re item is chosen. I’d love to hear and blog about it!

Take your place among the elite—Eames, George Nelson, Castiglioni.

Your clock could hang here. Hey, you never know.

I love pretty much everything in the MoMA Store. (And the museum.)

The market could stand for more design-y kid toys, in my opinion.

M O R E M o M A G O O D N E S S

• My interview with MoMA Store president, Kathy Thornton-Bias on Design Milk.

• ARTmonday: My Visit to MoMA

• MoMA Design Store: Destination: Mexico

MoMA Store, SoHo

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June 11, 2012 · 10:00 am

ARTmonday: Lucie and Simon

Lucie & Simon, self-taught artists who live in Paris, create photographs that outsmart our perception of reality by staging a quirky view of daily life. Their compositions capture different moods of silent melancholy, in between real life and dreams. Here are 12 images from their Scenes of Life series.

Picture of life, 2008

Last breakfast, 2008

Window on courtyard, 2008

Beyond the sunrise, 2007

The knot of life, 208

The swing, 2008

Alone together, 2008

Missing childhood, 2008

Vertigo, 2008

Beginning of life, 2008

Picture of Julie, 2009

Remember a dream, 2008

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June 4, 2012 · 9:32 am

ARTmonday: 15 Sculptures by Henk Visch

I think I initially came across a Henk Visch sculpture (the metallic faceted one, I believe) on Pinterest. Visch is a Dutch sculptor, painter, and draftsman who represented the Netherlands at the Venice Biennale in 1991. Some of the forms seem very current, though they were done some time back. I love the range, some pieces are very completely non-figural, while some are sensuously anthropomorphic, and others quite whimsical. Another seems to reference mid-century works by Donald Judd, and others have a Louise Bourgeois feel. Here is a sampling of 15, plus two installations.