"this and that"

“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations.

“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Fecal Felicity This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Slant Step Book, which celebrated…

MoMA produced a video that demonstrates how to make a painting in the style of Willem de Kooning.

The extremely posh Menil Drawing Institute closely resembles an extremely posh convenience store on the Princeton campus.

Today: Centers

Nike just released a grass-covered shoe. As usual, an artist was there first.

You would know this if you knew your pop culture.

"How was I to know / She was with the Russians too?"

Here are some old and new, art and not, instances of colorful trees in the lone star state.

Today: Art and advertising

Today: Blocks

Back in a time before YouTube existed, when memes were just a glimmer in our collective eye, artist Christian Marclay began making intensive video works that culled Hollywood films for auditory and visual patterns.

Today: Birds

“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: austere architectural spaces Above: two renderings of Kanye West’s YEEZY Home, conceptualized as pre-fab, concrete, low-income housing. (Yes, it does…

“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: stained glass Above: interior views of El Tiempo Cantina, a Tex-Mex restaurant on Navigation Blvd in Houston Below: interior…

“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: rectangles leaning against the wall Above: an unassembled, boxed IKEA bookshelf Below: multiple installation shots of the 2017…

“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Mirror balls                               *************…

“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Judo All artists, in some way, shape, or form, are inspired by other artists. Sometimes those influences are obscured,…

“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Magnified, molecular-looking things hanging from the ceiling Above: Josiah McElheny’s Island Universe installation which is now on view at the…

I like to imagine someone would buy that place and decorate it like a 1980s Upper East Side apartment, with peony chintz and framed prints of horses.