ALDO VAN DEN NIEUWELAAR

Kunst + Interieur, a modern antique shop in the centre of The Hague houses some designs by Aldo van den Nieuwelaar. Probably they were his on the moment of his death. Most objects were lamps from the mid seventies.

Last time I visited, I was stopped by this large B/W picture. But that's ...

And I took this iPhone picture. This is how we got to know him in The KABK [Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, in The Hague]

I always state he was one of my 'greatest' teachers. His approach to teaching was new then and is still interesting today. 

Aldo died 23 september 2010 [wiki] still rather young, being born in 1944.

His circular tube lamp, which I bought some time in the late seventies is a iconic classic now.

LOUBOUTIN WINDOWS SELFRIDGES

We see London getting ready for their Olympiade. Not into sports? No problem. Walking around a completely brushed up city, visiting Tate Modern or The Design Museum. The latter organizes an exhibition of French shoe designer Christian Louboutin. In the meanwhile you can see his windows at Selfridges...

As the former Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent designer celebrates his own ubiquitous brand’s 20 years of shiny red soles and outrageous designs; Christian Louboutin’s is a name that’s hard to escape right now. The brilliant StudioXAG once again have their indubitable talents on display in London’s most iconic shop windows – their spellbinding kaleidoscopic displays mesmerising fashionistas and cynics alike. Whilst inside, Selfridges and StudioXAG have collaborated on an exquisite World of Louboutin concept space – a whole host of his lavish designs to splurge your pennies upon.

Watch the films.

RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER

I was struck by the works of artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. You can browse his website and see so many interesting ideas  / photos / films. There is enough for everybody. Some things will remind you of Eliason, some of Abramovich. But it's more this time captured then looking like.

Lozano's Website

Here are some of his videos:

It also reminded me of an interview by Chris Dercon in Dutch Newspaper NRC [5-3-2012] where he makes a statement about the enormous lust for participation, visitor's of museums have nowadays. There is a link, but only available for subscribers of NRC

Quote: 'De Tate biedt een vorm van troost' Volgens Chris Dercon, directeur van Tate Modern, is de nieuwe museumbezoeker geen consument meer maar deelnemer. Er is een enorme zucht naar participatie ... 

EET BIJ DE BUREN

Maakt het delen van maaltijden makkelijk.
Thuisafgehaald maakt het mogelijk om je kookkunsten te delen met mensen bij jou in de buurt. Of je nu culinaire hoogstandjes maakt, of macaroni met kaas... hier kun je je maaltijd delen met je buren. Geen zin om te koken? Kijk hier wat er aangeboden wordt en je hebt zo iets lekkers op je bord.
Ga ook op culinaire ontdekkingstocht in je eigen buurt!
Deel, proef en geniet! 

VANAVOND NIET KOKEN, NIET UIT ETEN EN NIET DE DOMINO IN HUIS?

KLIK HIER


Homecollected:
Thuisafgehaald [Homecollected] makes sharing meals easy.
"Homecollected" enables your cooking skills to share with people in your neighborhood.Whether you create culinary delights, or macaroni and cheese ... here you can share your meal with your neighbours. Do not feel like cooking? Look what is offered and you'll have something tasty on your plate.
Go on this culinary discovery trip in your own neighbourhood!

Share, taste and enjoy!  

Tonight, not behind the stove, not going out, nor order in, but click HERE

LES LALANNES

The American Gallery Paul Kasmin organizes a retrospective of Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne. Claude Lalanne (b. 1924) and François-Xavier Lalanne (1927-2008) were a couple that dominated French art for quite some time with their interpretations of nature, especially animals. There is an interesting surrealistic tinge to their work. At the beginning of his career Brancusi introduced Lalanne to artists such as Max Ernst, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and Jean Tinguely. Francois-Xavier met Claude at his first gallery show in 1952. The show signified an end of painting for Francois-Xavier as he and Claude began their career sculpting together.

The Paul Kasmin Gallery  / More pictures on Trendland

It makes me greedy to look at their work... 

ANISH KAPOOR / PARSIFAL / AMSTERDAM

The Dutch Opera [DNO / De Nederlandse Opera] has brought out a new production of Wagners Parsifal. It went on show in June 2012. Interesting because of the scenography, which is by Anish Kapoor. 

A huge mirror used back and above the singers Had a huge effect on the scenes, as seen above.
Some other examples can be found in the links below.

Kensington Gardens / Smile for London / Turning the world Upside Down

Leviathan / Grand Palais / Paris

And watch this delightful film about a building in New York, yet to be built.

Herzog & de Meuron / Tribeca Plans

In Holland we can always collect our share of visual pleasures in De Pont in Tilburg.

Next a link [maybe only for dutch viewers] showing an interviewing with Kapoor and Audi.

CLOCHARDS BIEN OUTILLé / IKEA

The making of the assembling of IKEA flats in Paris subway! The apartment in the Paris metro station Auber, set to present solutionsto small areas of development proposed IKEA will be from 9 to 14 January 2012 the site of a single operation.For 6 days, 5 housemates will live in this apartment of 54m2 in the eyes of all users of Auber. A daily videosummary of their adventures will be posted on Youtube.

GARDENING [6] DEREK JARMAN DUNGENESS

Derek Jarman (1942-1994) was an English film director who made a famous garden on the shingle shore near Dungeness nuclear power station. The barren grounds on which he planted his garden was always under attack of the sea winds. So he went with the flow...

http://www.gardenvisit.com/garden/derek_jarman_garden_prospect_cottage_dungeness

And there is a fantastic book:

DELVING INTO THE UNKNOWN

There was a time that the Bibliotheca Philosohica Hermetica seemed to go astray. Joost Ritman spend so much money on his life's passion that he went bankrupt. Nobody seemed willing to save his library, but recently the Bibliotheca reopened. 

 Joost Ritman comes from a family of Rosicrucians. He began collecting rare old books when he was sixteen, but his enthusiasm was really fuelled when his mother gave him a copy of Aurora, a work by the German Protestant mystic Jacob Böhme (1575-1624). The work also fed his interest in Hermetic  philosophy. In fifty years’ time he collected not only the essential works of Hermetism, but also related currents such as gnosis, theosophy, non-Western philosophy and  kabbalah. The core of the collection, however, consists of the Corpus Hermeticum. Like Cosimo de’ Medici, Ritman commissioned a translation of the Corpus Hermeticum, in Dutch, in 1990.

Joost Ritman is now only surrounded by family members in the library: his daughters Esther (director and librarian) and Mirjam (art historian and curator of the Ritman Art Collection) and his granddaughter Rixande. Ritman had to let go the academic staff formerly connected to the library. ‘The library is like a ship in a storm’, he says. ‘We had to steer it to a safe haven. The crew originally consisted of seven people, we are now carrying on with four. We are hiring our former staff on a freelance basis.’

To prevent attachment of the collection in the future, a new organisational structure has been designed for the library. The ownership of the collection has been entrusted to a foundation headed by the Ritman family. The right of usage of the library is held by a second foundation, which has an ANBI status, an official accreditation for charities, making donations tax deductible. The board is made up of Ritman’s daughter Mirjam, former Education and Culture minister Hedy d’Ancona, and Amsterdam notary public Maarten Meijer.

GARDENING [3] OUDOLF

Over three decades, the Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf’s sometimes unconventional ideas about what looks good have helped make him a star in Europe and have also begun to win him fans and jobs in the United States.

To start of, his ability to create a winter garden:

Nowadays Piet Oudolf's claim to fame is the creation of The High Line: http://www.thehighline.org/

 

Serpentine pavillion 2011: 'I hope people relax here'

 

New York Times slideshow: www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/01/30/style/0131-PIET_index.html

Piet Oudolf's own site