🖼️🖼️🖼️ So much good art in NYC right now! Here is a little of what I saw in the last week:
💪🏼 Carol Bove at the Guggenheim. I can’t really explain how incredible this show is. You have to see it for yourself. The scale, the steel, the colors. 10/10, will go again.
🎨 Also SO nice to see the Kandinsky and Munter paintings here. I saw many of these at the Tate in 2024, but didn’t get to spend enough time.
🖊️ Keith Haring at the Brant Foundation. Good show, compact, several things I hadn’t seen before.
🧩 Marcel Duchamp at MoMA. Still processing. Didn’t know he was a classical painter, didn’t know he had an alter ego named Rrose Selavy (last slide), didn’t know a lot about him, as it turns out. Going to need to revisit. Massive show. Give yourself plenty of time if you go.
✨✨✨ Lately ✨✨✨
🍷🍝 A fine time at Borgo
👃🏼 Gorgeous incense from PF Candle Co.
🎨 Long-ago treasures from NARS
💄🪄🎩 The debut of Trucco Journal
📝 Stepping back into the world of events
👩🏼💻A lil’ mention in NY MAG
🎱 One of my new side-hustles at NYAC
💐🌹🥀 Design school inspo, art by Olan Ventura
📷 The 1st photo perfectly sums up the kind of year it’s been. I spent a not-insignificant amount of time staring absently up at the sky, asking, “What the hell just happened?”
📈 There were great moments—guest teaching at SCAD, lots of incredible art, many friend hangs, galavanting around Italy and other spots. I did some interesting work and also said no to things.
📉 And for all the weird/not great events of this year, I don’t feel like any of that was down to bad luck or cosmic shenanigans, Mercury in retrograde or doom loops. That’s just what the hell happened.
🌟 Still, I’m ready to put 2025 in the rearview and get into what’s next. For me that includes a LOT of creative projects: design school at Pratt, more Italian classes, a new Substack. All good things. HNY and ❤️ to you all🫡
📣 Friends! If you’ve been following along, you perhaps know that Starving for Beauty, the micro-influential beauty Substack I wrote with my co-author Lesa Hannah, published its last issue this week! (TY @lesahannah 🫶🏻)
💡 Being on Substack these past 2 years has been SUPER educational; for all its challenges (pricing, CMS, plagiarism — ugh), I found it to be a mostly (!) positive place for writers/creators. And though I’m not 100% sure what’s next for me, I DO know that the experience solidified something I already knew: I like to make stuff!
🖼️ Here’s a recap of my personal SFB greatest hits, design edition. I created/designed most of the art, including the logo and banners, which as it turns out, was one of my favorite parts of the process.
🔮 Thanks to the readers, colleagues, friends, and collaborators who make Making Stuff so worth it. You can hop over to Substack to read our archives (for free!). And I will see you again super soon ❤️
🎉 Aguri a me! A capital B Birthday in Florence, and truly no place I’d rather be (if not New York). Thanks to @officialbrads for making this one so epic (!), and thanks to friends here and far for making me feel extra special ❤️ Also, elephants are welcome anywhere as far as I’m concerned 🎉
☀️Summer is still happening over here!☀️
🤖 Works like a champ
🏊🏼♀️ Hockney vibes
🖍️ Julio Torres Color Theories = delightful, as was my rose sippy cup
🎭 No raccoon sightings, but an incredible show
🌸 This gorgeous thing
🌅 Red sky at night, and so on
🌅🌅🌅 Summer 25, so far 🌅🌅🌅
📘My new fave sweatshirt
🍕Roberta’s forever
🌴One of many perfect sunsets in Turks
🎥 Sofia x MoMA
🥀 Dave and Martin x Tribeca
👛 Beach guest gifts (I’m good at that)
🫠 Same, girl @ Toteme
🍷 A word
I’ve seen some exceptional art these past several weeks! Will always blow my mind how many things there are to see here, at any given time, within a few short subway stops 🙏🏼
🖼️ Amy Sherald “American Sublime” at the Whitney
🎹📷 Jason Moran x Duke Ellington x Gordon Parks at The Apollo
🎨 Hilma af Klint “What Stands Behind the Flowers” at MoMA
🎨 A good few weeks of art! 🎨
📻 Kenny Scharf at the Brandt Foundation
📷 Weegee at ICP
📷 Robert Adams at the Whitney
🖼️ John Baldessari at the Whitney
🖼️ Picasso x Lillie P. Bliss collection at the MoMA
📝 Christine Sun Kim at the Whitney
🖼️ Fall art, so far🖼️
🌊 NBD, just Hokusai’s “Great Wave” IRL at the Nelson Atkins and a contemporary version by Christiane Baumgartner
🎀 A salon within a salon at Salon
💄Wolf Vostell’s “B52 Lipstick Bomber” at MoMA
❤️ The Ailey retrospective at the Whitney! Go go go! It’s incredible!
🌙 Dike Blair at Karma, such a great show
🎆🎆🎆 July went by in the blink of an eye 🎆🎆🎆
🍕Beach pizza and fireworks
🖼️ Barry McGee / Beyond the Streets at Southampton Arts Center
📿 Making stuff
💜 Purple Rain with audience participation at The Alamo
📸 Wishlist
🖼️ Visiting a favorite Hopper at The Whitney
