Silk on the Road
Silk Road: traveling across continents and through the darknet
Imagine you increased your weight 10.000 times in 6 weeks and then had to move your head 300.000 times to spin yourself…
Fabric in Contemporary Painting
The brilliant work of Henk Pander
I can photograph art and fabric (see above, taken in Henk Pander’s studio), but I could never be a European art critic….
The Right to Dry
The American ban on Clotheslines
I cannot take credit for inventing this slogan – it is the name of a movement that fights against state laws and…
Fabric on Stage
How fabric makes movement more beautiful
Whether you see someone doing a little jig on the street or you watch the most amazing ballet performance, the appreciation of…
Velvet Variations
Above and Underground
I swear there isn’t a topic that a) isn’t covered somewhere on the internet and b) doesn’t become interesting when you read…
Fabric(action)s
A short history of lace and its depictions in art
This week will be devoted to fabric. Velvet, cotton, curtains, linen on laundry lines, you’ll be surprised how many interesting facts are…
The Flight is on
Paul Cadmus' The Aviator
I once saw an original Paul Cadmus drawing in a beach house on Cape Cod – the man knew muscles, and, for that…
Freezing at FRIEZE
Yu Hong's Security Screening
Two years ago I attended FRIEZE, an art fair in New York, for the first and probably last time. It was ice…
Water Rats
Bohumil Kubista's The Sailor
I photographed these young Russian sailors some years back in San Francisco’s Chinatown while they perused every touristy junk display up and down…
Sepia Variations
Eugène Carrière's Alphonse Daudet
If you google Eugène Carrière and click on images you’ll face an astonishing array of somewhat monochromatic brown/sepia/beige/black paintings. Lots of them, and…