Twenty Four Hours
Hello everyone. I know it’s been a while since the last email but I decided to do a little digital detox and step away from the computer. I originally started this newsletter as a distraction from what was going on last year and to keep my sanity by finding interesting things that inspired me. As life starts to get back to normal and summer gets underway, I have a feeling maintaining a weekly email is going to be a challenge. I will try my best to send something out but please don’t be too disappointed if I skip a week here and there. Thanks for being here on this journey and I appreciate you all. Now on with the show.
Basquiat’s family is organizing a show of rarely seen works in NYC
The ten most expensive works by Basquiat ever (publicly) sold
Jean-Michel Basquiat: ‘Painter to the core’
How Basquiat took inspiration from jazz, hip-hop and no wave
New documentary Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide
Barcelona City Council steps in to preserve little-known Keith Haring mural
Christie’s now accepting cryptocurrency for big-ticket items, including an upcoming $5.4M Keith Haring
A painting by David Bowie purchased from a thrift store for $5 is about to sell at auction for over $75K
Reminds me of the documentary, Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?
Midcentury upstate New York home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright protege lists for $1.4m
A ‘ghost forest’ has sprung up in Manhattan
Photographers capture NYC’s newly opened ‘Little Island’ park
NYC’s waterfront is about to get a multibillion-dollar facelift
’Floating’ island proposed for Chinese waterfront
A floating hotel in China
Architect plans to build luxury floating resort out of ocean plastic
Airbnb is looking for twelve people to live anywhere for one year
You can now live for a night in Antoni Gaudí’s first-ever designed home…for $1
While MUJI will now sell you essential amenities for airbnb guests for $400
'Cluttercore': the anti-minimalist trend that celebrates mess (the opposite of MUJI)
New Mexico antique dealer/collector/designer’s arty lair in a former Brooklyn garage
Heading to New Mexico? Rent the vintage-furnished ranch of a beloved LA fashion designer
A vintage seller’s beautifully curated Melbourne home
Salt Lake City home of vintage-loving stylist is like a living piece of art
A 3,000-Square-Foot downtown Manhattan loft with pond-green floors and Van Gogh-yellow walls
A forest-like makeover of a small Victorian home
New fifty-acre modernist retreat immerses guests in the landscape of New York State’s Hudson Valley
Couple turns rundown East Hampton cottage into bright, beachy refuge
Green stained timber and salvaged trawler nets build an artist's cabin in Ireland
Holiday home disappears into rugged Greek landscape
Set amongst the minimalist concrete walls of Tadao Ando’s architecture, artist reinterprets Japanese antiques
Italian photographer captures Brutalist schools and universities of Europe
Researchers develop self-healing concrete that can fill its own cracks
The Flatiron Building is coming back to life after being vacant for over two years
NYC’s storefront plywood finds a second life
Dawoud Bey’s up-close snapshots capture a changing generation
'Chinatown Pretty' celebrates Asian American elders and their sartorial flair
Chinese library looks like a floating concrete cloud
Intimate photography book goes inside the world of NASA (below)
An eight-key one-handed keyboard
Radiooooo’s app is helping me out of a music rut. Select a country and a decade, plus whether you want music that’s “slow,” “fast” or “weird,” and you’re served a playlist that fits your criteria. Today I’m digging 1960s Indonesian.
Interpol launches app to identify stolen art—and it has already been used to discover loot
Rembrandt’s damaged masterpiece is whole again with the help of artificial intelligence
How the world’s priciest painting ended up in the hands of a notorious killer
São Paulo-based illustrator recreates vintage pulp comics as sapphic love stories
Brooklyn-based artist illustrates environments and atmospheres
The best places to buy art online
That’s all I have for you this week. If you have any suggestions send them my way.
Thomas