Trend Report: Piles of Chairs

I’ve started blogging for Metropolis magazine, y’all!  My first trend report was just published.  It is called: Piles of Chairs.

Those of you who went to Milan this year had a lot on your plates. You navigated the ever-expanding array of booths. You deduced which satellite events were skippable. You managed to get some interviews amid exhibitor-buyer talks that increasingly resembled Hungry Hungry Hippos. You even found your way back to the hotel, despite the trains shutting down before you finished your prosecco! And this was all before some volcano erupted!

With all of the distraction, you could be forgiven for overlooking a trend or two. Particularly this one. It’s the latest example of an obscure-but-intriguing furniture-design trope that I would hereby like to dub Piles of Chairs...

Metropolis is one of my favorite magazines and I’m delighted to contribute to their blog.  You can read the whole piece here.

Trend Report: Glop Art

Winsor&Newton must be happy.

Those of you who are contemporary painting nerds might have noticed a trend: one all about squeezing, slathering, scooping and smearing on the paint in generous piles. Great big gloopity gloops that, okay, might remind you of heaps of paint-poo. It’s messy, it’s visceral, but also it’s sculptural and silly and gosh dangit most of the time I find myself loving it. Why? What can I say: I’m a sucker for paint acting like paint.

So, as part of No Smarties‘ burgeoning fine arts coverage (ahem), I am here to bring you a trend report on what swank art bloggeur Joanne Mattera recently dubbed “Glop Art.” Hold onto your aprons kids!

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