No. 02: Leila Bartholet

Claire Bataille & Paul Ibens, NYC Ballet, Yogurt, Untalic and Lapvona

Sep 07, 2023

Leila Bartholet is a very very stylish NY-based digital designer and art director. I’m lucky to collaborate with her every day <3

I. an inspirational design duo

The design duo Claire Bataille & Paul Ibens are my current design inspirations. I’ve been trying to break out of my digital design lens recently, and these two really hit the nail on the head. They designed everything and anything including homes, a convent, construction joinery, cutlery, and furniture.

"We are not looking for trendy effects, but rather for the power and sensuality of space." Paul Ibens, 2003

II. a nyc institution

I discovered that the nyc ballet does $30 tickets if you’re 30 or under. After seeing 21st Century Choreography I (featuring Partitia, Play Time, and Love Letter On Shuffle) in May, I became absolutely obsessed.. The same week, I got tickets to Justin Peck's Copland Dance Episodes, and I am seeing All Balachine II at the end of the month.

III. a treat

Please someone stop me from buying these $8 yogurts because I simply cannot.. They also have savory flavors that you can put on potato chips..

IV. an italic, non-italic serif font you didn’t know you needed

As of late I’ve been uninspired by non-italic serif fonts.. so Astrae studio’s Untalic was exactly what I needed. An absolute gem of a serif that has the characteristics of an italic font without the slant. (I discovered Astrae through their Chataeu font on Flamingo estate’s honey jars, which is another A+ font IMO).

V. a deranged book that you will want to put down but you won’t

If you know me you know I love horror.. Ottessa Moshfegh’s new novel Lapvona absolutely shook me. It’s camp horror set in a fictional medieval village. Think death, ugliness, and a whole lot of breast feeding…

~ bulletin ~

los angeles

Today: Rôge show at Lodge Room. Nicholas Campbell’s Hell is the Size of an Apple opens at Smart Objects. Last day to see Wilt’s first installation at Canary Test – a 3 part floral artist exhibition.
Tomorrow: Vanessa Beecroft’s Rules of Non-Engagement opens at Jeffrey Deitch.
Until September 9: Group show We’re Outta Here at The Pit.
Until September 16: Megumi Shinozaki’s Now/Then at NonakaHill. Elmer Guevara’s House Money at Charlie James Gallery.
September 20: A lineup performs Promises, the acclaimed album-length composition recorded with Pharoah Sanders, at the Hollywood Bowl.
Until September 29: Ellsworth Kelly’s An Exploration of Color at Gemini.

new york

Recently opened: Chase Hall’s The Bathers at David Kordansky. Kelly Beeman’s Summer at Perrotin Gallery. A special exhibition juxtaposing by pioneering early 20th-century Swiss modernist Sophie Taeuber-Arp with works by three contemporary artists – Leonor Antunes, Ellen Lesperance and Nicolas Party – at Hauser & Wirth (69th St).
Opens today: Ed Clark’s The Big Sweep at Hauser & Wirth (22nd St). Ed Ruscha’s NOW THEN featuring over 200 works opens at MoMA for members today and to the public on September 10.
Tomorrow: Pomegranate Press’ 8-year bday party at Knickerbocker is tomorrow celebrating the launch of 3 new books including a sweet one called Playfulness I recently purchased. The pop-up will be there until Thursday. Artist Joe Henry Baker’s NEW WORKS opens at IRL. DJ Claire Marie is playing upstairs at Public Records. If you can’t make it you can listen to her very good spotify playlists. And the Armory Show is open tomorrow through Sunday. Louise Bourgeois’ Once there was a mother opens at Hauser & Wirth (18th St). Group show Clairvoyance opens at SHRINE featuring Adrianne Rubenstein, Hayley Barker, Aglae Bassens and Gwen O’Neil. Chase Hall’s Melanoidin at Pace Prints.
September 9 & 10: Available Works art book fair by Geoff Snack, WSA and Something Special Studios at WSA. Intramural Shop will have a table there :)
Until September 12: Artist Trevor Shimizu’s Land/Time in Montauk at The Ranch (the longest-running cattle ranch in the US).
September 28: My friend, artist & furniture maker Dylan Hayes’ show Old Growth will be in NY for the night.
September 29: Public Records is collaborating with Visible Cloaks for the first iteration of St. GIGA anywhere outside of Japan.