Memos

I feel so lucky to have just seen my third big Alexander Calder show in less than 5 years (I love you for this, NY). The current show is up at MoMA. But you can still go back and explore the shows from Pace Gallery and The Whitney.

You thought your last move was like a game of Tetris? See how the curators made sure they could actually get the work up to the third floor.

After all this, I’ve been in a bit of a rabbit hole on the Calder Foundation’s website where you can see lots of work, and browse an interactive map to find out where to find his works.

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Flamingos eat, too.

MoMA is offering a new online course: Reimagining Blackness and Architecture. Want to sign up with me?

Yo-Yo Ma brought his cello along to his vaccine appointment.

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Sit back and enjoy David Bowie narrate Peter and the Wolf (on Spotify or Apple Music).

Getting this book in the mail made me sm;)e. And motived me to get out the button machine to restock these favorites.

Algorithms give or they take, Seth Godin’s pitch to make them give.

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This packaging makes me want to squirrel away all the nuts.

Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair is this week.

I really miss flying.

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If only all this shoveling the sidewalk could result in something like these snow drawings by Sonja Hinrichsen.

Type designer Tré Seals writes in It’s Nice That about their experience navigating the design industry and starting the foundry Vocal Type. Check out Bayard, Marsha, and more.

A throwback to Valentine’s 2012, a subway map I drew with all the ways to my heart. I gotta give you all credit; with all the comments, nobody had the heart to tell me I had misspelled Raspberry Beret (twice!).

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