"I’ll tell you one thing for sure: once you get to the point where you’re actually doing things for truth’s sake, then nobody can ever touch you again because you’re harmonizing with a greater power." — George Harrison
To begin this month’s installment of Findings, we wanted to share that bidding has opened in our 13th quarterly auction in a forever series in support of organizations benefiting BIPOC and LGBTQIA communities and initiatives.
Through Thursday, April 4, we invite you to bid for the opportunity to receive 2 tickets to an upcoming Yes Society dinner— dinners otherwise open exclusively to members of Yes Society.
Yes Society—our membership offering private access to highly rare bottles from the best producers in the world—hosts dinners in cities across the country showcasing exceptional bottlings that reflect generational devotion to beauty and craft. You may learn more & place your bid here.
All proceeds from this auction will be donated directly to the NDN Collective, an Indigenous-led organization dedicated to building Indigenous power.
Otherworldy Fascinations
We’re looking ahead to the solar eclipse on April 8…starting with NASA’s map of prime viewing locations.
Have you heard of radical glowing petunias?
A delightful delve into the kaleidoscopically sensorial world of the “mad perfumer of Parma.”
Grounding Forces
Thrilled to experience this exhibition at The Met—ongoing through June—exploring “textiles by four distinguished modern practitioners, Anni Albers, Sheila Hicks, Lenore Tawney, and Olga de Amaral, alongside pieces by Andean artists from the first millennium BCE to the 16th century.”
Adding to the bookshelf: lessons on living through examinations of furniture and furnishings in Japan & the U.S…and a contemporary consideration of the beautifully crafted, via Los Angeles’ Galerie Half
Shifting Perspectives
“I think that, when you paint, too, you’re not thinking, basically, and it’s great. It’s a relief. Music does that, too—like, your jaw dropping. It’s like Cy Twombly said: You’re able to make a world that you can inhabit, that someone can inhabit.”
— artist Louise Bonnet on learning to stop thinking
“I have a habit of getting interested in something—and the idea kind of sticks in the back of my head for years and years and decades even, and then it just kind of erupts.” — Yvon Chouinard on straw bale houses
Artful Spring Outings
New York, NY — The 2024 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, March 20 – August 11, 2024. More on the curators for this year’s show.
Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within at The Noguchi Museum. The first nationally touring retrospective of Takaezu’s work in over twenty years—on through July 28.
Turin, Italy — Fly on the Wall, a solo show from Danielle Mckinney at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, on now through October 13, 2024.
Sliema, Malta — MONUMENT, an interdisciplinary exhibition by Charlie Cauchi, John Banthorpe, Teresa Sciberras, and Gilbert Calleja, at R Gallery. Open through May 1, 2024.
Joshua Tree, CA — JINEN, featuring the work of Dan John Anderson, Kazunori Hamana, Yu Kobayashi and Ido Yoshimoto at A-Z West
Brussels, Belgium — ‘Chantal Akerman. Travelling,’ an exhibition tracing the atypical trajectory of Belgian filmmaker, writer, and artist (Brussels 1950 - Paris 2015) at BOZAR/Centre for Fine Arts: March 14 – July 24, 2024.
Now Playing: Attuned
Our spring Attuned playlist is now streaming—with a soundtrack for the present season, curated by musician Michael A. Muller. Learn more & listen here.
Looking Between
In Ways of Seeing, John Berger writes: “We never look just at one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.”
In the late 1960s, American landscape architect Lawrence Halprin and avant-garde dance pioneer Anna Halprin organized a series of experimental, cross-disciplinary workshops in San Francisco and along the coast of Northern California that brought dancers, architects, environmental designers, artists, and others together in a process designed to facilitate collaboration and group creativity through new approaches to environmental awareness.
We’ve been exploring the archives of imagery captured during this era…a worthy wormhole for recognizing the value of spaces & environments enlivened through movement, activity, and dialogue, shared via The Graham Foundation and The California Historical Society.
In Closing
The Patience of Ordinary Things by Pat Schneider
It is a kind of love, is it not?
How the cup holds the tea,
How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare,
How the floor receives the bottoms of shoes
Or toes. How soles of feet know
Where they're supposed to be.
I've been thinking about the patience
Of ordinary things, how clothes
Wait respectfully in closets
And soap dries quietly in the dish,
And towels drink the wet
From the skin of the back.
And the lovely repetition of stairs.
And what is more generous than a window?