Bur@rt Diary
Bur@rt Diary is published every Monday morning.
The Editor-in-Chief of art on writes down, diary-style, thoughts about art as well as everyday likes and reflections. Please read whenever you have a spare moment.
A few “Visit to a Collector’s Home” projects that I touched on briefly in last week’s diary have now been scheduled.
This series draws significantly more page views than other articles. Readers must be curious about how life and art coexist, and I too find it fascinating and always look forward to these visits. I have also heard that a certain art magazine is preparing a “Collector Feature.” I hope we can convey the rich, diverse world of collectors, one that cannot be summed up in a single category.
Museum Goods Article
Among the articles updated last week, the one that received the most access was this one.
At exhibitions everywhere, crowds gather at the museum shop, where a wide variety of items is on sale. Sweets, T-shirts, stationery — recent goods span a huge range of products. Among them are also art items you can display at home, such as the standard postcards, posters, mini-canvases, and reproduction prints. It would be wonderful if opportunities to enjoy art in accessible ways continue to expand, rather than only through buying expensive artworks.
By the way, the article on Hammershøi exhibition goods was picked up by a certain housewife’s blog, and I was surprised at how much traffic came in from there.
It might sound rude to call it “trivial,” but the blog is a diary-style record of everyday life written at a slow pace, extremely friendly and easy to read, with a strong pull that draws you in. The unadorned, straightforward prose was very comfortable and stress-free. I wished Kaho Miyake, author of “Buzz-Worthy Writing Classroom,” could analyze it.
Room Makeover in Progress
Out of the blue, I bought a walnut table.
I have been unifying various pieces of furniture in walnut, and I finally got a serious walnut single-plank table. I am gradually redecorating the room.
There is a magazine I sometimes pull out from the bookshelf. It is the November 1, 2016 issue of BRUTUS, the “I Want to Live with Contemporary Art” feature.
In this magazine, various collectors appear and introduce works from their collections, but it is the impressions of the rooms visible in the background that always jump out at me and inspire me. Every photograph has such a nice feel that I inevitably start thinking about rethinking my own room.
Incidentally, POPEYE’s “The Room and the City Boy” is also a good book. It is more practical and actually useful as a reference for putting a room together.
Regarding the Collectors’ Collection Exhibition that recently closed, we have been contacted by media outlets who want to cover it. An interview is scheduled this week. I am also looking forward to the second edition of the Collectors’ Collection Exhibition, scheduled for July.
Let us do our best this week too!
Editor-in-Chief, art on
Mahiro Kobayashi
