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New (and Updated) Works From a New York Art Legend
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Last year, I had the chance to speak with the artist and poet John Giorno about performing at CBGB and other downtown Manhattan spots in the ’80s. The 82-year-old is still making new work and has a solo show opening tomorrow at Sperone Westwater, which is just a block or so from his Bowery studio. I was most excited to learn that it will include an updated version of Giorno’s 1968 work “Dial-a-Poem,” which incorporates recordings of spoken-word recitations; a push-button phone has replaced the rotary one, and bonus poems read by John Ashbery, Helen Adam, Eileen Myles and more have been added. There are also large-scale silk-screened paintings, delicate watercolors and several 2,000-pound bluestone boulders etched with pithy lines from Giorno’s own poems (“DO THE UNDONE,” “NOW AT THE DAWN OF MY LIFE”). Carving expressions onto garden stones was in vogue in Louis XIV’s France, and while the works reference this history, to Giorno, who only started sculpting a couple of years ago, the craggy rocks are merely another venue for the presentation of words. “John Giorno” will be on view at Sperone Westwater from Sept. 5 through Oct. 26, 2019, 257 Bowery, New York, speronewestwater.com.
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Fresh, Single-Origin Turmeric for Fall Dishes
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Over two years ago, Sana Javeri Kadri, who worked as a marketing associate for Bi-Rite Market in the Bay Area, observed that turmeric had rapidly grown in popularity. Yet no one was questioning, in the same way we do the origin of our eggs or coffee, where the spice really came from. As Javeri Kadri explains on her website: “‘Made in India’ is more likely to signify fertilizer overuse, farmer suicide, and rampant worker abuse than it is colorful piles of freshly ground spices amidst fragrant marketplaces and lush fields of tropical organic produce.” Working with the Indian Institute of Spices Research, she learned more about ethically minded varieties of turmeric, and she launched Diaspora Co. in 2017. She now sells turmeric as fresh and potent as possible (most spices do, in fact, have a shelf life; she’s now also offering green cardamom, too). My order of turmeric, which I recently received, was harvested earlier this year and grown by the Kasareneni family in the state of Andhra Pradesh in southeast India among marigolds, bananas and black rice. I just used it in a dish of Bengali salmon that I like to cook as the weather cools down in the fall, and it was better than any turmeric I have tasted. Starting at $12, diasporaco.com.
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A White Button-Down Shirt, Layered Differently
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This fall, the classic white button-down shirt has a newfound purpose: It makes for a surprisingly good layering piece. Most of us already have one in our closets, but if you don’t, I recommend buying a slightly oversize version, like this one from Cos or this one from Charvet. Then comes the styling. Beware: This is not for those who seek to be loud or revealing. On the contrary, it’s at once parochial and avant-garde. For an everyday look, wear your white shirt under a short-sleeved or sleeveless jacket, as seen on the fall 2019 Jil Sander runway, or extend the seasonal life span of a knit tank top by putting the white shirt underneath it, as seen at Loewe (above). Prada showed a black lace dress over a white shirt, and the Row left it untucked, peeking out from under a slim suit, which I loved.
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Colorful Clothespins That Can Organize the Messiest of Desks
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There is no real reason to own a collection of classic wooden laundry clips rendered from semiprecious Andean stones — which is exactly the reason to buy a set of these in service of creating the chicest clotheslines known to man or, perhaps more practically, a tactilely and visually pleasing office-organization system. Created by D.A.R. Projects, a design studio founded in northern Peru in 2016, they’re part of the Kux Stone Objects series, which relies on local craftsmen, centuries-old techniques and regional materials to elevate workaday objects. The stones used come in a range of hues — from green to light blue to orange — but to get myself back in order this fall after an itinerant summer, I’m going to rely on the heavily mottled teal and cerulean ones, their white and black striations providing a nice, momentary distraction from the stacks of paper accumulating. $18, fredericksandmae.com.
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Utilitarian Pieces to Withstand the Apocalypse
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While some legendary Manhattan department stores have recently been forced to close, Nordstrom, which began as a Seattle shoe emporium in 1901, is opening a seven-story women’s flagship by Columbus Circle in October. And this month, at its men’s store across the street, shoppers will find a pop-up carrying an exclusive, 35-piece capsule collection by Matthew Williams, who runs the cultish streetwear label 1017 Alyx 9SM and has designed accessories for Dior Men. The latest iteration of Nordstrom’s collaborative New Concepts series, launched by Sam Lobban, Nordstrom’s vice president of men’s fashion, earlier this year, Williams’s collection consists of sharp, practical pieces, including a long leather coat and matching gaiter pants, a crinkled nylon parka and a unisex fanny pack. Utilitarian touches like 3M zippers, plastic buckles and double-thick rubber soles (on the zip-up leather boots) give the items a functionality meant to withstand apocalyptic times. “I believe in climate change,” says Williams, who took care to make clothes that would last. Not only that but, as most of the pieces are black, they won’t go out of style. shop.nordstrom.com.
From T’s Instagram
So Long, Summer: 7 Photographers Remember the Season
Though there are technically three more weeks of summer, Labor Day weekend always unofficially marks the season’s end. We invited Naima Green, Alexander Coggin, Clara Cullen and others to share some of the moments they captured — including shots of boat rides, garden walks and water-skiing. Follow us on Instagram @tmagazine.
