Somehow, the final month of the year is before us. Time moves more quickly than we can understand—and yet across the vineyard, the shift into the early moments of winter has arrived with palpable certainty. As we reflect and take inventory, we’re finding ourselves drawn toward and collecting works that remind us of a lifetime of devotion, that make us smile at the ingenuity of others. Work that celebrates everyday beauty and treats it as relic, that reframes small thoughts (and shows us how they are, in fact, the Big Ideas).
We hope this contemplative season offers you plenty of space to do the same: to curate your own collection of small wonders, to locate those quiet revelations that fill your cup. Wishing you well.
For the Record
Delighted with artist Bernie Kaminski’s devotion to acquiring 1960s-70s editions of the Manhattan phone book. (“It’s wild to see who is listed - Diane Arbus, Alexander Calder, Don DeLilo, Robert De Niro, Brian De Palma, Jasper Johns, Pauline Kael, Alex Katz, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mapplethorpe, Thelonious Monk, Alice Neel, Grace Paley, Maurcie Sendak and probably hundreds of others I haven’t thought of.”)
Imaginary Field Trips:
“It makes something new. Sometimes, it collapses time. Sometimes, it makes similarities that may have happened over a millennium more obvious.”—new sculptures in ceramic and bronze from Simone Leigh at Matthew Marks gallery, New York.
Treasure troves of found furnishings from Japan and Europe, tucked into a London gallery.
The Last Dyes, an exhibition of prints by William Eggleston, and the last major group of photographs ever to be produced using the dye-transfer printing method — at David Zwirner in Los Angeles.
Faithful recreations of the working studios of Henry Moore and Georgia O'Keeffe, alongside a show considering shifts in scale, layered compositions, and work informed by life between the city and nature—at MFA Boston.
Life with Art:
For those in the gift-giving mindset, we’re pleased to share that a selection of Making Department’s framed prints—abstracted vignettes captured over the last decade across the Antica Terra landscape—remain available for purchasing, with shipping available. All prints were printed in a series of three, and are available for sale at $1,500 for horizontal and $2,000 for vertical, including frames. Please inquire via email: rfoster@anticaterra.com.
Cultivated Beauty:
Moved by the waterlily collectors in Vietnam's Mekong Delta—and the ceremony-like traditions that accompany their season of harvest and finite window of bloom. "In the early hours of the morning, at certain temperatures, there’s a brief window when the night bloomers are open at the same time as the day bloomers, which emit a plummy, soapy fragrance...[similar to] the smell of Juicy Fruit chewing gum." More here.
Reading List:
“I still can see Frank, standing on that street corner outside a pastry shop, holding a neatly tied-up box of God knows what—éclairs, perhaps.” — James Schuyler on Frank O’Hara, in the FW24 Paris Review
A tender composition of the questioning self and the muses who shape us — Deborah Levy’s The Position of Spoons and other intimacies
Altars, a visual extension of familial history by Jenna Sararo, “Inspired by an image taken in 1961 of her father as an altar boy during a transatlantic trip to Italy, and heavily influenced by her grandmother's home textiles and personal style.”
