I am glad the Prada SoHo reopened after that fire and has a nice exhibit of skirts, twirling around on mechanical hangars. Very creative...go see the show, which ends on the 31st.
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Posted on 5/22/2006
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ABC has great gifts...or so it looks...in their full page ad in the Styles section (different from the pic above; the ad has the expensive stuff)...I fell for the felt angel ($22) and the cute handmade puppets ($20)...superb Michel Cluizel chocolates ($25 for 16 pieces)...and these seemed kinda sorta reasonable...but then I took a closer look...an amethyst crystal ($950)...a marble Ganesh sculpture ($2500)....a Venetian waterfall chandelier ($2500)...and I wonder...who gets their honeybunch a marble Ganesh or Venetian waterfall chandelier for Christmas? I mean, hello? It is Christmas, not Hindu Diwali or something like that. Well anyhow the ad is clever, all the gifts form a nice Christmas tree...and then there is that Las Venus lounge chair & ottoman from the 1970s for {gasp} $5950. I'll put that on my list.
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Posted on 11/27/2005
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I went last year--don't miss it! This year I read that the tree will be lit next Wednesday (11/30). Take the kids!!
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Posted on 11/17/2005
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You New Yorkers seem really happy to have so many new BBQ places, but they just really don't compare. Take it from a Texan, they are kid's stuff imported to the big city. This past weekend, I was up in Oklahoma and we stopped at Jiggs Smoke House, a small place in Clinton OK off the Interstate and old Route 66 (not marked on the highway signs, of course). Well, you walk into this wood shack and the place is full of cowboys having their lunch. Huge plates of lunch. Not the sort of types you'd find in those Manhattan BBQ places eating small plates of stuff. An enormous lunch of pork ribs--that was the day's special--came with potato salad, beans and two slices of bread. No fancy furniture or decorations, just great barbecue, the way life ought to be.
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Posted on 11/7/2005
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There is a thief in Marfa...actually in Valentine...who stole 6 purses and 14 shoes (all right-foot) from the Marfa Prada...what I love most is that time is supposed to ravage this "store" and 50 years from now it will be just like one of those Texas or Nevada ghost towns...and who will know at that point what this brilliant concept was anyhow...
VALENTINE, Tex., Oct. 7 - The adobe sculpture called "Prada Marfa" was two years in the making and assuredly incongruous, plopped down in the vast, empty landscape on U.S. 90.
But after a well-attended artists' opening on Oct. 1, the 15-by-25-foot sculpture replicating a Prada store was vandalized on Tuesday night. Six purses and 14 shoes, all for right feet, disappeared.
About 35 miles southeast in Marfa, where the international art community gathers this weekend for the annual Chinati Foundation Open House, the scuttlebutt is that the vandal "was just some jealous Marfa artist," said Charlie Maxwell, a builder who was called in for repairs. Among the area's tourist attractions are square concrete boxes by the minimalist artist Donald Judd.
The Prada sculpture is the work of the Berlin artists Michael Emlgreen and Ingar Dragset. It was produced by Yvonne Force Villareal and Doreen Remen through their nonprofit Art Production Fund, and they said last week that they intended to forgo maintenance and let time ravage the $80,000 sculpture so that "50 years from now it will be a ruin that is a reflection of the time it was made."
But Mr. Maxwell said he repainted the outside - where vandals had spray-painted "Dumb" and "Dum Dum," repaired scratches and refitted a door, to be permanently locked and minus handle, because "they wanted to have it in pristine shape through the Chinati weekend."
The Prada handbags now have cut-out bottoms to obscure links to a security system that, if tampered with, alerts the police in Marfa and the county seat, Fort Davis.
"It's definitely creating a reaction," said Boyd Elder, a local artist. Two cars, one from San Francisco and another from Austin, stopped by while he was talking with a reporter. Mr. Elder said he wants to see more tourism dollars spent in Valentine, whose population has dwindled to 160.
The vandalism "represents the times we're living in," he said, adding that the graffiti and thievery were "a great example of jealousy and envy."
Mr. Maxwell offered an alternative security system: keeping "six or seven choice rattlesnakes inside the store."
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Posted on 10/8/2005
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