Libertine, the Financial District restaurant reviewed this week by Mike Peed in Tables For Two, takes its inspiration from English pubs; upstairs, a lounge full of red leather couches and period portraits seems patterned after that country's private men's clubs.
By Andrea Thompson November 25, 2008 Libertine, the Financial District restaurant reviewed this week by Mike Peed in Tables For Two, takes its inspiration from English pubs; upstairs, a lounge full of red leather couches and period portraits seems patterned after that country's private men's clubs.
"Just as incarceration has become typical in the lives of poor black men, eviction has become typical in the lives of poor black women," said Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin whose research on trends in Milwaukee since 2002 provides a rare portrait of gender patterns in inner-city rentals.
The screen breaks up into multiple images — portraits and abstract patterns, revolving and zooming in and out.
The Cinnabon portraits — whose icing patterns riff on the Conceptual patterns of Sol LeWitt — look as if they could increase the nation's obesity epidemic all by themselves.
Others are boldly experimental, notably a bonkers 1887 portrait with clashing patterned fabrics — a striped sea-green dress, a red armchair, and olive wallpaper.
He has compared thousands of portraits, looking for patterns in the hand gestures, robe colors, jewelry, background furniture and even hairlines and mustache shapes.
It is clear that Gheeraerts' portrait provided the pattern for the queen's image in the procession picture.
Through a combination of design and 3D animation, Keays drops his lustrous female figures into various dreamlike settings, creating almost frightening portraits and visual patterns. .
It's also a portrait of the pattern of migration – in the 50s and 60s from the West Indies; from former British colonies; from Pakistan and Kashmir; then from Somalia during the civil war.
