Tuesday Edition: Don Hamerman
Filed Under: artist newsletter On: April 20, 2010 posted by: youngna
Happy-Tuesday-before-Earth-Day collectors! In celebration of our lovely planet we have a photography double header lined up for you this week and at least one more surprise lingering on deck for next. Let me just say: there's a LIVING LEGEND lurking in our midst. If your friends love art and you love your friends, do them a favor and make sure they're signed up for this here newsletter. Srsly.
More good advice: sign yerselves up for a free Gilt Groupe membership to get the scoop on an exquisite edition we put together with Andrew Zuckerman—a plumage-perfect complement to Blue-and-yellow Macaw_044. If you don't know Gilt, know this: they offer super-styley designer goods at deep discounts for short periods of time and sometimes the offerings include art. And in this case, the deal is even sweeter as proceeds will benefit The National Audubon Society.
But, I'm getting ahead of myself and today's very important business—introducing our latest edition from Don Hamerman: Sewanee No. 17. It's been two years since we first introduced collectors to Don's beloved series, Found Baseballs. The months between then and now have been dappled with many a good memory, a few bad baseball puns and some deep talks about art. Don was OUR gateway drug into art that references sports—most of us 'round these parts aren't inclined to walk the walk OR talk the talk of athletes. But we enjoy offering editions like Don's because they present a good point of entry for all of you who might not normally think that art's your thing (I know you're out there!) or that art and sport could so peacefully co-exist—making the discovery of these photographs an enlightening experience for all.
The thing about this series is that it's made all of us at Team 20x200 reconsider the way we look at the things around us on a daily basis. It's as if these baseballs, found and photographed by Don, are symbols of spring itself, when everything looks and feels like something new again—however aged and tattered, moldy and mossy it all may really be.


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