No. 03: Yours Truly
Art Dogs, Denim Revival, Harold Budd, Lulu Kaalund's Croched Boat, and Parc des Buttes-Chaumont
Hi! I hope you’re having a good week :)
If you’re new here, welcome. After many years of friends receiving a random text at 6:30a of a chair I thought was beautiful, an email with a newsletter I loved reading, or a voicenote about my go-to almond pear cake recipe (this one), I decided to start a newsletter.
It wasn’t until I spent the spring in Paris that I finally had the time and space to think about what Affection Archives is and why I should start it. It revealed to be pretty simple: pausing to focus on the beautiful things in life is important to me.
I hope you enjoy this weekly list of 5 things either myself or a guest is loving–and a bulletin of happenings I think might spark joy. <3
I. a goood substack
Art Dogs shares stories of artists and their pets (dogs, turtles, lizards, etc.) that often had a strong influence on their works. In the latest post, the author tells the story of the love affair between novelist/poet Vladimir Nabokov and butterflies. He collected more than 4,000 specimens of butterflies over his lifetime.. it was his true passion. I loved learning the below —
Vladimir Nabokov rarely signed his books—in fact, he reportedly never did so for strangers—but he often drew butterflies on copies of his books and those by other authors. Most of these adorned books were gifts for his wife Véra and their son, Dmitry.
II. a jean gem
Denim Revival is a vintage denim & repair shop on w 3rd street & fairfax that is a 10/10. All the levi’s you might want, chill vibes, and great humans. They fixed up a few of mine that have received a little too much love over the years and Stephen provided moral support while I tried on over 25 pairs to find a pair that I’ve pretty much only taken off to sleep. I love their first post on instagram.. (Side note — I wonder if the instagram filter will one day make a come back?)
III. a long song
This Harold Budd song is 18 minutes and 27 seconds of peace.
IV. a crochet-covered boat
Lulu Kaalund is a Danish chef turned artist known for her crocheting. I’ve admired her for a while.. her sweaters are beautiful and I love these chairs she did with atelier axo. She recently unveiled Sea Untitled around the time of Copenhagen’s Chart Art Fair outside of the Copenhagen Soho House, which used to be a customs house and ferry terminal. It’s entirely croched..
V. a place I miss a little extra
When I was in Paris, I’d bike up to parc des buttes-chaumont to relax for a bit and have a bite at Buttes Snack Bar or Mardi (highly reccommend both) before I started work. On the weekends, not a patch of grass was visible there were so many people (locals), but on weekdays people were just enjoying the sun. It looked like this–
~ bulletin ~
los angeles
Open: Megumi Shinozaki’s Now/Then at NonakaHill. Elmer Guevara’s House Money at Charlie James Gallery. Ellsworth Kelly’s An Exploration of Color at Gemini. Rose Wylie’s CLOSE, not too close at David Zwirner. Vanessa Beecroft’s Rules of Non-Engagement opens at Jeffrey Deitch. Mack Books opened downtown last weekend – it’s a beautiful shop (I honestly had my eyes glued to the table they had made for the space).
September 16: Dike Blair show opens at Karma. SIZED SELECTS opens for the weekend with lamps by J. Hannah, a table set by WAKA WAKA, and a series of photographs by Karlheinz Weinberger. Soumya Netrabile’s Between Past and Present/Between Appearance and Memory opens at Anat Ebgi.
September 20: A lineup performs Promises, the acclaimed album-length composition recorded with Pharoah Sanders, at the Hollywood Bowl.
new york
Open: Last day of Pomegranate Press’ at Knickerbocker. 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 and The Bathers at David Kordansky. Kelly Beeman’s Summer at Perrotin Gallery. Available Works art book fair by Geoff Snack, WSA and Something Special Studios at WSA. Artist Trevor Shimizu’s Land/Time in Montauk at The Ranch (the longest-running cattle ranch in the US). Artist Joe Henry Baker’s NEW WORKS opens at IRL. Ed Clark’s The Big Sweep at Hauser & Wirth (22nd St). 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). Ed Ruscha’s NOW THEN at MoMA featuring over 200 works. David Zwirner Books opened in Chelsea last week. Merrick Adams’s Soft Stars Hard Thunder at Turn.
September 15: Jules de Balincourt’s Midnight Movers opens at Pace. Composer and musician Ellen Arkbro’s Sculptures at The Church of St Luke & St Matthew.
September 16: Ruth Asawa’s Through Line opens at the Whitney.
September 29: Public Records is collaborating with Visible Cloaks for the first iteration of St. GIGA anywhere outside of Japan.