End of the Year Cabinet

I love end of the year resolutions... although I find it hard to put a definite list of all the things I loved this year.
But still, here it goes:

My favorite song, the one I can listen to all day in repeat on my iPod, is definitely "someone great" by LCD SOUNDSYSTEM:


My favorite movie, although hasn't been shown here, is PTA's "There will be blood"


And last, my favorite book, the one I got from Eran as a birthday gift (and unfortunately is out of stock) is "Living Well is the Best Revenge" (a new year's resolution for us all). New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins re-creates the world of Gerald and Sara Murphy, two American originals who found themselves at the center of a charmed circle of artists and expatriate writers in France in the 1920s. Their home in Antibes, Villa America, served as a gathering place for Picasso and Léger as well as Hemingway and Fitzgerald, who used the glamorous couple as models for Dick and Nicole Diver in Tender Is the Night.

"Person after person - English, French, American, everybody - met them and came away saying that these people really are masters in the art of living".

And on that note, happy new year.

Happy New Year Cabinet

To all my friends...

New York Cabinet

Just for Xmas: a New (York) Year Resolution!
New York Magazine reminds us all why we love the city that never sleeps.Read More

Cabinet of Drugs

Berlin Cabinet

Weimar Berlin is celebrated for its outpouring of creativity, and the Expressionism pioneered here continues to influence artists today. Architects, too, found themselves confronted with tradition's breakdown in the face of war and revolution, with groups such as Bauhaus and The Ring seeking to align a new theory and practice of building with 20th-century realities. As a painter, film designer, and architect, Hans Poelzig was at the center of this creative storm.

A new show at the Academy of German Art takes a look at Hans Poelzig. Poelzig was a painter, film designer, and architect. His Weimar-era projects in Berlin contributed to the city's early reputation as an oasis of modern architecture, and those still standing offer a glimpse of the modernist city before its wartime destruction.

Black Cabinet

She keeps going back to it, and we are going back to black. Keep the good work, Amy.

What Would Jesus Buy Cabinet

Dutch architects Merkx + Girod have won the Lensvelt de Architect Interior Prize 2007 for their Boekhandel Selexyz Dominicanen in Maastricht - a bookstore inside a former Dominican church. At last the world is ready to confess that shopping is holy.
Hallelujah.

Art Cabinet

Mark Wallinger Wins 2007 Turner Prize. He is famous for his film Sleeper, 2005, 154 minutes of footage of the artist wandering around a deserted German gallery disguised as a bear.

"What are we allowed to dream? The past rises up with all its vivid detail to mock our progress at every turn. The long past of our own fear. Inside the bear’s head I am aware of my own breathing. Looking out of the jaws at my narrow view, my progress from stimulus to distraction gains some kind of animal momentum – to watch and be watched as a foreign, alien, strange, endearing, imprisoned animal."
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