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January 24, 2010 · 7:04 pm

ARTmonday: Beatriz Milhazes

A few years ago I discovered Rio de Janeiro artist Beatriz Milhazes. Her work was hanging in a living room featured in a glossy mag (perhaps Elle Decor). I perused her work online but it simply wasn’t in the budget. Seems she’s done a lot since then. In addition to her paintings, which are similar in style, but more vivid and hard-edged, there’s an amazing mobile installation and some public works. Most of these are through the James Cohan Gallery in NYC; some are earlier works from the Stephen Friedman Gallery, also in NYC. Feast your eyes. . .

Mariposa, 2004
Acrylic on canvas

Aubergine II, 2003
paper collage on paper,

Brinquelandia, 2008
Mixed media collage on paper

A Lenda, 2002
Acrylic on canvas

O Macho, 2002
Acrylic on canvas, 99 x 96cm (39 x 38in)

Jamaica, 2006
Hiromi handmade Kozo triple thick

Peace and Love, 2005,
Gloucester Road Station Project
Platform for Art Underground
London, UK

Set design for Marcia Milhazes Contemporary Dance Company, 2008

Gamboa, 2008
Iron and mixed media

Guanabara, 2005
Tate Modern Restaurant Project
London, UK

Montage: 34 Rooms with Poufs

The ubiquitous pouf. They’re everywhere. Moroccan-style poufs, knitted poufs, even wire poufs (though not sure those are actually poufy). I finally purchased one for myself. It’s silver metallic, and sits in front of the white sofa with the gray ikat pillows, which sits in front of my white bed, which sits in front of an accent wall covered with a white wallpaper with silver metallic circles. Seems stylish, right? Guess who hates the pouf? He thinks it looks like a giant, shiny soccer ball.

Here are enough photos of gorgeous rooms to prove that the pouf really is at the height of fashion.

Photos: Jonathan Adler; Light Locations; photographer Ngoc Minh Ngo; Skona Hem; Skona Hem; M. Design; Beau Monde; Robyn Karp; Skona Hem; Kelly Wearstler; Cecilia Granath; Alkemie blog; Candace Bushnell’s in Elle Decor; Living Etc.; Living Etc.; Living Etc.; Hotel Riad Jahan; Living Etc.; Susanna Zacke; Todd Yoggy; photographer Stellan Herner; photographer Melanie Acvedo; Buckingham Interior Design; Cookie; Elle Interior Norway; Desire to Inspire; Living Etc.; Living Etc.; Amanda Nisbet; Country Living; Jessica Helgerson; photographer Paul Barbera; Jessica Helgerson; Kishani Perera.

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January 22, 2010 · 1:11 am

Deal Alert: Hudson’s Having a Sale

It doesn’t happen very often, as Boston’s Hudson groupies are well aware. But the time is now.

Hudson • 312 Shawmut Avenue • Boston AND 61A Central Street • Wellesley

Site Spotlight: Etsy Boston

Not long ago, Cambridge-based interior designer and CreateGirl blogger Julieann Covino wrote to me about some fabulous Etsy finds – all by Boston area artisans. I was able to write up her ideas in Stuff Magazine. Here are a few of her picks as well as my own discoveries of Boston Etsy-ites (Etsy-ers? Etstonians?). Eat local, shop local, design local.

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January 10, 2010 · 9:17 am

ARTmonday: Alexander Gorlizki

When textile designer Seema Krish, whose work is helping to revitalize crafts in her native India, learned that I had studied Indian art in grad school, she suggested I have a look at contemporary artist Alexander Gorlizki. Mughal miniatures, with a twist!