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Bloss is your secret gateway to the world of Moss. Behind the scenes, up in the attic, down in the dumps, all around the town. No stone unturned. We cover the Moss waterfront, from sea to shining see. The designers, the artists, the interns, friends and foes, the Fairs and the unfair, the good fight and the bad lieutenant, lies, truths, and massive coverups. You asked for it. Here it is. If you can't take it, take off.From our twitter
- Moss closes in Soho, will reopen in former garment district, now the design district http://t.co/mOmVimoN via @wordpressdotcom 5 days ago
- Get a free t shirt. Say goodbye. Buy a chandelier. It's the last week of Moss in Soho. http://t.co/tJpDDeg2 via @wordpressdotcom 1 week ago
- Moss @ Greene Street location closes on Feb 17. Moss opens @ 256 West 36th St 10th Floor Mar 1 http://t.co/VjOOdpdD via @wordpressdotcom 2 weeks ago
- Moss is moving and this is the last of its Greene Street wine and whine events. Don't miss it. http://t.co/mgNebDr0 via @wordpressdotcom 2 weeks ago
- Moss is moving, not dead. Everybody take a deep breath and chill. http://t.co/PFcRm548 via @wordpressdotcom 3 weeks ago
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Category Archives: Murray Moss
Kiss today goodbye. Point me toward tomorrow.
Posted in Behind the Bloss, Big News, Franklin's Obituary Column, Holidays, mimes, Moss Artists, Moss Staff, Murray Moss, Prostitutes, Real Estate Public Service Announcement, Ripped from the headlines, Shop til you drop, Shopping as entertainment, Sport shopping
Tagged Moss Gallery, Soho, Moss, Greene Street, West 36th Street, Moss shop, garment district
Monday Feb 13 to Friday Feb 17. The final days of Moss in Soho.
Hey, everybody, come on down to Moss during this, our final week on Greene Street, where, no matter what you’re heard, we’re NOT having a sale. However, as a wee we’re-moving-uptown-to-the-garment-district gift, you can get a fabulous Moss T-shirt with any purchase over $118. (Yes, for Free!) The 18 is for the eighteen years we’ve been here in Soho. As you no doubt know, the phrases on the t-shirts are all rules to shop by as dictated by us. Choose from the spicy Please Do Not Touch, the paparazzi-hating Photography is Not Permitted, and the subtly anti-child message Small Children Must Be Held.
In case you’re just too important or too tired or recovering from recent hip surgery and just cannot make it down to the Last Days of the Design Mecca of the World, then you can always do it the old fashioned way and just buy a t-shirt, by clicking on any of these lovely pics. Supplies are limited. Just like the days we’ll be in Soho.
Posted in Behind the Bloss, Big News, Franklin's Obituary Column, Holidays, mimes, Moss Staff, Murray Moss, Prostitutes, Real Estate Public Service Announcement, Ripped from the headlines, Shop til you drop, Shopping as entertainment, Sport shopping
Tagged Design, Greene Street, Moss, Moss Gallery, Moss T-Shirt, Soho
First Mark Twain, Now Moss

Yes, yes, we’re closing the Greene Street gallery, it’s true. But Moss is MOVING not closing. We’re going to an office/showroom in midtown. We’ll announce exactly where shortly. We’re going to redo the website, so it’ll be more complete and easier to buy. All credits will be honored. Plus we’re opening a new consulting business, called Moss Bureau. What’s the opposite of dead?
You’ve heard about that Brad Pitt movie, the Tree of Life? Well, here’s the Tree of Aluminum.

You know that old phrase, right? Life is like aluminum? That’s what they say. Bloss has heard it a hundred times. And it’s never made more sense than now. And look, Brad, look at all those little cast aluminum leaves that this tree is made of. Ten thousand of them suckers. Welded together by the artist. Andrea Salvetti. His tree is 10 feet high and 15 feet in diameter. And get this, to put it together, someone has to spend some quality time working inside the trunk and then has to crawl out through a teeny tiny door you can’t see. I can give you a hint. It wasn’t Andrea. At Moss now. It’s like a breath of fresh aluminum.
Posted in Big News, Installations, mimes, Moss Artists, Murray Moss, Shopping as entertainment, The Daily New
Tagged aluminum, aluminum tree, Andrea Salvetti, L'albero, Moss, Moss Gallery
Oh come, all ye Hexalights, joyous and illuminescent
Yes, my little Santas and Santettes, it’s nearly Xmas Eve, time for Bloss to turn once again to the cunning Marcus Tremonto, to find out what he’s doing with electroluminescent paper this year. As usual, the boy further confounds our old-think perceptions of two and three dimensional imagery. The disarmingly simple Hexalight “cubes” are really flat drawings. Could have fooled Bloss. And Bloss is sharp cookie. Check ‘em. Out here.
Posted in Behind the Bloss, Holidays, Installations, mimes, Moss Artists, Murray Moss, The Daily New
Tagged Electroluminescence, Hexalights, Marcus Tremonto, Moss
The niece gets married.
Bloss spent most of Sunday in a Long Island City loft at the wedding of our niece, Sarah, to Jason. It was a splendid, moving, lovely and loving event, complete with hundreds and hundreds of chairs spread over four floors of faded elegance. That’s Sarah, choreographing the photography of the wedding party, and below with Jason and her dad, Arthur, posing amidst the aforesaid faded elegance. Then a shot of the two of them with cousins. and just so you believe the chairs thing, a shot of some of us waiting to be photographed amid just a few of the many chairs.
Posted in Big News, Holidays, Murray Moss, Opening nights, Ripped from the headlines
Tagged Jasan Rev, Sarah Weintraub
Design Miami: the last day, images and memories
The clear highpoint of Day Zero was a visit from everyone’s favorite North American, Kareem Rashid. Here Haresh explains the morphing fruit platters, to little effect.

And here a somewhat surreal woman with hideous red hair used her iPad like a Steadicam, floating silently around the booth.

People loved shooting the booth. Here are but two simultaneous imagesmiths in action.

And finally, a shot of our beloved Corrie, who stepped in at the last minute to work the booth with us and without whom we would have been up a tree without a paddle. Here she is, doing her dusting. Bless.

Design Miami Day 4: the handwriting’s on the wall
Turns out writing on the booth walls by hand is more radical a move than one might suspect. It’s been causing a small ruckus.
We just thought it might be a nice change from endless and tasteful vinyl. Besides we kept thinking up new things to write as we were installing.


















