Follow Up Friday
A little summary of the week that’s just been!
Including art history news, DIY tips, exhibition & literature reviews, auction announcements, etc.
Email me with your ideas. I’d love to hear from you.
1. Gray Malin Photographs London
I am probably the last blogger on earth to talk about American photographer Gray Malin on my blog, but boy I love his stuff! He recently visited my favourite city on the planet and documented the experience of producing aerial photographs for a new series on his blog. He also did a cheesy red bus tour and visited his work at the new J.Crew on New Burlington. Check out his post here.
2. The House That Art Education Built
My alma mater just got a major upgrade! Mount Allison University’s Fine Art Department moved into their new digs at the beginning of this school year and the new building looks fantastic. The space is custom built to accommodate fine art studios and was no easy project:
“Quite often in any building project, the people who are administrating it tend to think the less people involved after the initial planning stage, the easier it is to manage,” Holownia says. But “in this case the entire department sat around the table through the entire process to determine what each area would have to do.”
Read all about the $30 million project on Canadian Art here.
3. Kids Hallowe’en Costumes
Hallowe’en is just around the corner! Home James has a new series featuring Emily’s Special FX makeup, and bloggers all over the internet have been coming up with hilarious and creative kids costumes. The Oh Joy costume featured above is from The Effortless Chic and you can see more here. Oh Happy Day is the QUEEN of children’s costumes. This is my favourite series featuring a hipster, Ira Glass and the cast of Moonrise Kingdom.
4. Rotterdam’s Markthal is Super Dutch and Super Cool!
This is hopefully the market of the future! An open air market that also features 230 flats which look onto the bustling concourse.
A four-storey high raspberry tumbles past a tree-sized floret of broccoli, while gigantic prawns plummet towards a pile of mega-mange tout. In Rotterdam’s new market hall, you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d slipped down a rabbit hole into Wonderland, where a panorama of supersized fruit and veg rains down across the ceiling. It’s a Sistine chapel of fresh produce.
It cost €175m to build and leading Dutch architecture firm MVRDV were at the helm of the project. See more photos on the Guardian Blog here.
5. Giles Coren in Toronto!
The Atlantic on Dundas West just got a little boost from famed British food critique Giles Coren. Featured on his show The Million Dollar Critique the restaurant is sure to see more traffic. Read the rest of the article on Blog TO here. If you need a little chuckle, check out Supersizers – a time-defying eating adventure he went on with Sue Perkins (currently of Great British Bakeoff fame) here.
