Comments on: Sneak Peek: Bali in Amsterdam

By: blog.rightreading.com » 1616: The plan

blog.rightreading.com » 1616: The plan — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:24:56 +0000

[...] The publisher accepted the book on the basis of the preface, prologue, first two chapters, and a part of the third. That means I still have about 5/8ths or more of the book still to write. Above is the table of contents spread as it stands now. The trim size, which I suggested, is 7.25 x 10 inches. I didn’t want it to be so big that it seemed like an art book, but I wanted it to be bigger than the standard significant trade title, which is often around 6 x 9 or 6.25 x 9.25. There are a lot of images in my book, and a lot of material in the form of sidenotes (a favorite element, which I am also using extensively in the Bali catalogue I’m currently designing for the Asian Art Museum). [...]

By: nico

nico — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:10:30 +0000

gratuitous reminds me of grate, which is what I want to do to all that cheese. fondue, please.

By: nico

nico — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:08:45 +0000

first-ever major exhibition on Bali in the U.S. does have a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? I’m pretty excited. We look forward to seeing you!

By: gustibali

gustibali — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:23:36 +0000

I’m glad to know that you are planning an exhibition of Balinese art in US… I’m proud to be a Balinese…

By: edeb

edeb — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:20:50 +0000

What a great post. I have been thinking of you three a lot as we have been having very exciting meetings on this end thinking about programming. The Bali exhibition will have an extraordinary amount of programs highlighting ritual and performing artists living in the Bay Area and many coming from Bali.

By: bittermelon

bittermelon — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:01:39 +0000

Love it. Thanks for sharing! BTW the gratuitous cheese shot is awesome

By: Sharon

Sharon — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:19:20 +0000

That textile is even more amzing in person and belongs to the Tropenmuseum. Unfortunately, the Stedelijk has been closed for quite awhile for remodeling – they hope to open next year again. The Rijksmuseum is not schedled to reopen until 2013 – but I enjoyed the small bit that is open very much, unfortunately 20 of their 4 Vermeers were off at the Met for their exhibition. Yes, the cyclists on cell phones – crazy.

By: nico

nico — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:35:06 +0000

I hope they’ve gotten some more work done on the Rijksmuseum–such a small part of the collection was on view that I was only there for a couple hours instead of the usual five or six.

Thank you for that first photo: oh how I miss the oude kaas…
And watch out for the texting cyclists!

By: erica

erica — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:11:27 +0000

What’s that beautiful textile in the last picture? I like it! Hope you’re having lots of waffles and shopping at the markets – Amsterdam has the best markets. If it’s cold or rainy I like De Looier, otherwise the street markets are my favorite.

By: tuscanycat

tuscanycat — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:44:31 +0000

Love Amsterdam and the Netherlands in general. Aside from the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum, I like to visit the Stedelijk which is mostly contemporary art. There’s also the Royal Delft Porcelain Factory, in Delft, which makes the famous blue ware.