Around the Water-color: Pick 'n' Choose Three

An homage to Leanne Shapton.

© Kino Lorber

I've made no secret of my love for the Old Masters, and I'm dying to get my hands on a copy of The Mill and the Cross, which reimagines Bruegel's Way to Calvary as a living tableau alongside the story of the painting's creation. There's something so haunting about the trailer: it's both tense and serene, and I can only imagine how amazing the actual movie is.

All images © Patti Smith (courtesy the artist and Robert Miller Gallery)

Annie Liebowitz's Pilgrimage has been making some serious waves recently; I feel like I've been reading something about it almost every other day. More obscure but no less completely poetic is Patti Smith's Camera: Solo, an exhibit (and accompanying catalog) currently on display at the Wadsworth Atheneum through February 19, 2012. Both photographers are interested in revealing the internal characteristics of the seemingly inanimate objects upon which they turn their lenses. There is something both timeless and nostalgic about these images.

These are not candles. They are wax figurines, part sculpture, part completely unnecessary object. Utterly French and oh so beautiful. (Cire Trudon)