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Julianne Moore on important design
Julianne Moore on important design
Sotheby’s presents a conversation on design, featuring actor and collector Julianne Moore in conversation with curator Glenn Adamson, on the occasion of its ‘Important Design’ sales in Paris and New York (25-26 May 2021) featuring works from the 20th and 21st century
Pair of ‘Étoile’ table lamps by Alberto Giacometti, part of Julianne Moore’s design selection from Sotheby’s ‘Important Design’ auction of 20th and 21st century pieces
Academy Award- and Emmy-winning actor Julianne Moore is an avid design collector. Her passion for design, she explains, started in her youth, when she was first exposed to Isamu Noguchi’s ‘Akari’ lamps. ‘As a person in their early twenties who was trying to learn about design, I would go to design stores and museums, and that’s where you would find a little “Akari” lamp that you could afford,’ she says. ‘There I was, interested in these objec
A detail of In Honor of Black Lives Matter by KaNSiteCurators and Caroline Mardok, installed in Poe Park, The Bronx
When Black Lives Matter protests swept across New York City in June last year, businesses across the city shuttered their storefronts with plywood to brace for the civil unrest. The city “felt apocalyptic”, says Neil Hamamoto, the founder of Worthless Studios, a non-profit arts organisation that is repurposing the leftover plywood into art installations that aim to reinvent the defensive material as a source for creative inspiration.
The Plywood Protection Project features works by five artists across the five boroughs who each used around 40 plywood boards sourced from local businesses. The initiative “extends this material’s life”, but also complements “New Yorker’s increased desire to engage with outdoor, public spaces”, Hamamoto says.
Finding a Penfriend in Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts
An open letter to n+1’s new anthology, which explores themes of racial aggression and privilege as well as celebrating solidarity
Dear
Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts,
First, a confession: I am not Asian American. (I was born in London, am Chinese and monoracial, and have lived in both New York and Hong Kong, where I’m currently writing this letter.) Asian American identity politics is, generally, a no-go area for me: it is a delicate space; I do not want to intrude. I think of one particular literary magazine whose submission page includes the lines: ‘Do not send ideas about people and events in Asia unless they convey something about the Asian diaspora that resonates with the Asian American experience.’ Interesting. I wonder who decided that division – not unification – defined experiences of colonialism, oppression, pain and resilience? (Y