Newkirk is now having his first museum solo show, also at the Studio Museum, organized by Ms. Golden. He studied at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in Los Angeles, but does not consider himself to be �of� that city. He works with beads, hair extensions and glitter, but is equally at ease with neon wall texts and body-centric photography. It all adds up to a kind of maxed-out minimalism or, as Mr. Newkirk has described it, a �ghetto-fabulous conceptualism.�
This 10-year survey devotes plenty of room � nearly the entire double-height main gallery � to the shimmering pony-bead curtains for which Mr. Newkirk is best known. It also finds him pursuing more oblique forms of expression, particularly in his recent forays into video.
His earliest curtain, �Jubilee� (1999), is a showstopper, decorative yet urgent. Its rows of beads, strung on synthetic hair and suspended from an aluminum strip, look like orange flames cutting a swath across a bright blue sky. In the catalog Mr
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He then moves the armhole down until he is able to slip it over her hand. When both hands have entered the sleeves, he moves the coat up and over her shoulders.
It is actually a charming ritual, provided both of you refrain from flailing.
Dear Miss Manners:
I would like to know what my options are for sending thank-yous to my daughter's friends and family who have given her birthday presents. She's 4 years old and can write her name, but not much else.
Is it appropriate for me to send a note of thanks written in her 'voice'? (For example, 'Dear Grandmother, I adore the curtains you sent for my birthday. They match my bedspread so beautifully! Thank you so much for thinking of me. Love, Alice' � written in my hand?)
Would her contribution to the note in the form of her 'signature' and perhaps a drawing be good? When her friends give her gifts, is a note addressed to that friend and his or her parents together appropriate?
I am hoping that writing thank-you notes will become second nature for her, but I want the notes I'm sending on her behalf to be appropriate, too.
Gentle Reader:
Her contribution should be the wording. This may take some work on your part, Miss Manners is afraid
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