So I decided to go to Pilates and review my benefits enrollment package instead of going to today’s Leslie Hindman auction. Which means no new reptiles in my wardrobe:
Top to bottom: Lizard, Lucile de Paris alligator, python.
Vintage couture and accessories, November 15, part 2
November 15th, 2009Vintage couture and accessories, November 15
November 12th, 2009Another of Leslie Hindman’s vintage auctions just snuck up on me! Some picks from the online catalogue:
Top to bottom: Pauline Trigere, pink chiffon, Geoffrey Beene. I guess my taste right now runs toward “pointy.” Accessory picks to follow. Anyway, if you’re in Chicago you should go, just for the hell of it.
Because I have to work on an unseasonably warm Saturday
November 7th, 2009
Back at it
November 1st, 2009I’m just finishing up an interesting freelance project that consumed both the time and brainspace that I had dedicated to blogging. Thanks for waiting.
Walter Hamady’s Gabberjab #6 via the Center for Book Arts.
Archives of American Art, part 3: Louise Nevelson Papers
October 1st, 2009
All from the Louise Nevelson Papers, 1903-1979. Part of my Archives of American Art vacation series.
Traditional Industries of Greece, part 2: Sandal making
September 29th, 2009Worn by the ancients and soon adopted by glamorous celebrities. A must-have for pagan gods and the jet set, they are nonetheless a bargain for mere mortals.
One of many variations on a theme from Melissinos, the Poet Sandal Maker of Athens.
Part of my “Traditional Industries of Greece” vacation series.
Archives of American Art, part 2: Joseph Cornell Papers
September 24th, 2009
All from the Joseph Cornell Papers, 1804-1986 . Part of my Archives of American Art vacation series.
Traditional industries of Greece, part 1: Sponge fishing
September 22nd, 2009Once an important source of wealth in the Greek islands. The sponge industry was centered in the Dodecanese island of Kalymnos. A variety of social and environmental mishaps led to the near collapse of Greek sponge fishing by the 1980s.
These and more via the totally committed people at divingheritage.com
(I decided to be very slightly lazy about preparing posts before I go on vacation, so this will be the first in a short series featuring traditional industries of Greece, which is where I am right now).
Archives of American Art, part 1: Alexander Calder Papers
September 17th, 2009
All from the Alexander Calder Papers, 1926-1967
(I decided to be very slightly lazy about preparing posts before I go on vacation, so this will be the first in a series featuring collections from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art. Each post will follow my usual tendency to look for unique, possibly atypical but revealing items from a digitized collection)
Miss Beatnik, 1959
September 15th, 2009Jumping on the bandwagon with Miss Beat, 1959 are these Venice, California pageant contestants:
Call me cynical, but I think some of these girls are not actually beatniks. I suspect that the girl on the far left just slapped on some eyeliner in the car after competing in the Miss Culver City pageant.