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Spanish-born artist Teresa Solar-Abboud (b. 1985) creates sculptures, drawings, and videos characterized by an interest in fiction, storytelling, natural history, ecology, and anatomy. For her commission on the High Line, Solar-Abboud presents Birth of Islands (2024), a new sculpture in her series of zoomorphic shapes inspired by animals and prehistoric life forms.
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The predominant hue of this sentimental postcard composition is an intense azure blue, typical of skies on the French Riviera, overlaid with bright greens, pinks, reds, yellows, whites and lines of black. The transparency of the two figures makes literal what Francis Picabia (1879 – 1953) described as the “empty” character of Cannes high society. They have no substance to speak of, their bodies merging with the surrounding landscape in a painted version of superimposition, a technique more commonly associated with avant-garde photography and film. Idyll (1925 – 27) is displayed in its original goatskin frame, built by the frame-maker and bookbinder Pierre Legrain. The frame highlights Picabia’s abiding interest in the decorative, a category often considered antithetical to “serious” art.
Photographed in the Museum of Modern Art in NYC as Part of the Exhibit, Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction, Up Through March 19th, 2017.
Just a few of the 100 Montaditos on the Menu (All Photos By Gail)
Hey what’s up. Do you like tapas and also little sandwiches? I sure do. A few weeks ago I was introduced to this cool place on Bleecker Street called 100 Montaditos, which are little sandwiches that are not only extremely delicious but also very reasonably priced (i.e., cheap). And who doesn’t love a delicious bargain? You can bet that NYU students are all over this place. Because a good thing cannot be stopped, 100 Montaditos has just opened another, slightly more upscale location on Ludlow Street. Let me tell you why you need to check it out.
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Mad Props to whomever wrote “I Am Cold” in Spanish on this snow-covered car. Spotted on Eldridge Street, LES.
I really had to post Nicole Betancourt’s cool Latin salsa video, “Respondole a Obama” about the Latino community rallying behind Barack Obama, especially since I was just in a cab on Saturday night with a driver who insisted that Barack Obama would have tough time carrying Florida, “since there is such high Cuban population there, and everybody knows the Cubans hate the Blacks.” I swear to god, the cabby said that right to my face. But I think he was wrong. I think even the haters can put aside their lack of reason to avoid electing another fascist regime to government. Think people. And vote Obama / Biden a week from tomorrow.