Saturday, June 8, 2013

In the land of giants - richard serra, gagosian, los angeles


Richard Serra / Double Rifts / Exhibit Opening Announcement



Richard Serra Double Rift #6, 2013 Paintstick on handmade paper
84.25 x 240.75 inches
Larry Gagosian - Los Angeles 

Thursday, January 17, 2013

a shimmering blue sea










January 2013 -- A New Year!!!

                               shimmering 










Monday, August 6, 2012

hANDWRITING A POEM - show off your beautiful handwriting

hANDWRITING A POEM art installation @ KULTURAs books + sort-of-vintage

bring us (or mail in) your longhand handwritten favorite or your very own poem
to KULTURAs books by August 31 and we will display it
as part of our window art installation featuring old fashioned handwriting
.  


- OPEN TO AGES 12 ON UP
- lined 81/2 by 11 -                     1 poem per page
- write as many as you like
- write the name of the poet and of the poem
- could be your most favorite passage, if space is not sufficient
- write your name on front (if you so wish) and your
contact information on the back
- if it is your poem - ditto
- please no calligraphy 

Sunday, February 26, 2012

A Valentine's window

and a link to a Dupont 2012 Valentine's

http://www.examiner.com/vintage-fashion-in-washington-dc/valentines-day-dupont-circle



Sunday, February 5, 2012

VALENTINEs BOOK LOVE - february news


VALENTINEs  BOOK LOVE  feb. 10 11 12 13 14
sale  

great gift quality books in our art, photography, gardening, film, 
architecture, poetry, modern 1st editions, etc. sections
           - choose 1 and 2nd is 50% off -
choose hard or soft covers, mix and match from any
and all of our superb, well curated sections

--- throughout FEBRUARY's African History Month
                                         in Memoriam of Bill Clark
our african and african-american studies section
will be on sale buy1 second 50%off
mix and match soft or hardbacks

--- our vinyl jazz, classical, ethnic and spoken word
LPs collection sale is now 3 for $15

-- also will shortly announce our ILLUSTRATED POETRY
and HANDWRITING contest for children with a June
entry date

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

A Joyous, Prosperous 2012!!



The Best Year Yet to You and Yours!!

in this January 4th. 2012

with this post I aim to start a more or less regularly updated
picture of what is in our window, beautiful, funny, wise, worthy
books, and our latest sort-of-vintage take.








Tuesday, September 13, 2011

ongoings at KULTURAs sort-of-vintage


JAZZ, JAZZ, JAZZ LPs vinyl
MONK, MILES, DUKE, COLTRANE, etc

remarkable recordings and frameable, of the period,
graphic design cover art and photography.

Andrew H. Macdonald's
acrylic, paper on wood and tiles -----
based on Vermeer's student work by Fabritius "The Golden
Finch", oil on panel. Currently at The Royal Picture
Gallery, The Hague.

as well as Irene Coray's - on damask elements,
oil on wood and cardboard

around the neighborhood
as always Bistrot du Coin's mussels, in any
which way continue to be the best in DC.
Teaism's shrimp rolls, and if you have been
neglecting a healthy diet, their Spinach
Curry

Maddy's Chris - Sunday morning bartender's
bloody mary - a dream of what they ought to be

sort-of-vintage NEW ARRIVALS - a great
collection of 1970s shirt and shift dresses,
as well as 1950s shirtdresses