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I [heart] Alex Prager

April 19, 2012 by Jeanette Joy Harris

Sometimes I feel like my blog is a love letter to LA-based photographer Alex Prager and so today, in alignment with our women in photography series,  I am thrilled to show you pictures from her latest show “Compulsion” which is at M + B  (NYC) until May 12th. I have featured several works by Prager, most of which focus on her highly narrative photos of young women but these pics are a bit different. Below are photos from the show […]

Categories: art • Tags: Alex Prager, Compulsion, M+B

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Francesca Woodman: Solo show at Guggenheim

April 18, 2012 by Jeanette Joy Harris

I saw an incredible show focused on feminist artists at PS 1 in 2009 and one of my great discoveries was photographer Francesca Woodman. Her intimate, black and white photos merge stark and oftentimes difficult images with the mystical softness found in vintage photography. Francesca was the daughter of two artists and after much success at RISD and abroad in Italy, she expected to find the world, and NYC in particular, her oyster. After failed attempts at getting photography gigs […]

Categories: art • Tags: Francesca Woodman, Guggenheim

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A Lonely Girl: Dare Wright

April 17, 2012 by Jeanette Joy Harris

Before the Travelocity gnome, there was Dare Wright’s Lonely Doll,  a series of children’s books published in 1957, which stars Wright’s childhood doll, Edith, and two teddy bears from FAO Schwarz. The Guardian ranked Lonely Doll as one of the top ten best illustrated children’s books of all time. Wright passed away in 2001 but Fred Torres Collaborations in NYC is featuring her works though the end of April. Their life-like-ness is uncanny.

Categories: art • Tags: Dare Wright. Lonely Doll, Fed Torres Gallery

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The gift ya’ll can contribute to: Architectural Record Best Houses of 2012

April 12, 2012 by Jeanette Joy Harris

As of today I am 35.  Time to get settled, develop a real “grown-up” plan, and set some roots down. With Houston being the best residential market in the nation (according to ArchRecord this month), isn’t now the time? Sure, why the hell not. And just to show you that my house hunting strategies are as sensible as my shoe purchasing ones, here are a few options I picked out of Architectural Record’s 2012 Best Houses issue.  I am accepting […]

Categories: architecture • Tags: Architectural Record, Bates Masi Architecture, David Hertz Architects, Genius Loci, Govaert and Vanhouette Architects, House Beside a Vineyard, House NA, House Roces, Nakahouse, Sosuke Fujimoto, The 747 Wing House, UNStudio, XTEN Architecture

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Celebration Delicacy I will not be having for my birthday No. 3: Kopi Luwak

April 11, 2012 by Jeanette Joy Harris

Oh, I love my morning coffee, a beautiful, perfectly frothed capp thanks to my Nespresso machine. (Quiet all you coffee machine haters!) What celebration would be complete without having a cup of coffee made from the most expensive bean in the world: Kopi Luwak? But what makes this the best coffee? It’s natural, cinnamon undertones? Rich aroma? Thick consistency? How much does it cost? How can  I get some? How was it discovered? Well, the truth is that the coffee came […]

Categories: food • Tags: kopi lwak

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Celebration Delicacy I will not be having for my birthday No. 2: snake wine

April 10, 2012 by Jeanette Joy Harris

Yes, I am celebrating my birthday at a wine bar but, even if it’s rare, I will not be toasting year “35″ with a sip of  snake wine. This drink found in China, Vietnam and throughout Southeast Asia  promotes health, vitality and virility. The wine is created by steeping the snake (like the cobras above)  in rice or grain alcohol which, thereby, “kills” the poison. As if you had to ask — this is taken as a shot and eating […]

Categories: food • Tags: snake wine

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Celebration Delicacy I will not be having for my birthday No. 1: Ortolan

April 9, 2012 by Jeanette Joy Harris

Since this is a week about celebration, I thought I would introduce some interesting, rare and/or queer gastro delicacies from all over the world. Truth be told, some of these I would never eat or drink and would hardly serve as appropriate choices for my celebration meal but I am all about learning about food. First one was brought up to me by JF: the ortolan. The ortolan is a little-bitty bird related to a finch. It weights 20 – […]

Categories: food • Tags: French delicacies, Ortolan

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My birthday week inspiration: Sofia Copolla

April 8, 2012 by Jeanette Joy Harris

It would be impossible to be any cooler than Sofia Coppola. Her dad is famous, she has a sparkling wine named after her, she has a line of Louis Vuitton bags created in her honor by her (yes another advantage) bff Marc Jacobs. Let’s not forget she’s friends with the adorable Jason Schwarzman and she has effortless style, grace, and no need for make-up. She’s won an Oscar, a Golden Lion, and filmed at Versailles. Was married to the insanely […]

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David LaChapelle talks about his fine art photography (Big Think)

April 7, 2012 by Jeanette Joy Harris

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Jeanette Joy Harris is an artist and writer located in Houston, Texas who is primarily interested in the intersection between the conceptual and the constructable. Her art works have been shown in galleries and juried shows in Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago Heights, and her academic interests include 19th and 20th century Continental philosophy with a particular interest in Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. 

She currently serves as Art Director and Editor of Owlcat Press, an independent, Memphis-based literary magazine and publishing house. She also writes her own arts and culture blog, jeanettejoyharris.com, which focuses on the interplay between high art and pop culture.

Like all good art writers, she has a day gig. For the past 15 years, Joy has been assisting professional services organizations with marketing and business development strategies. Most recently she has begun to develop presentations that focus on how businesses can benefit from the methods and processes of the creative industry.  

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