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Monthly Archives: June 2011

POST 9/11

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Los Angeles’ Oh Wow Gallery is always worth watching with their impeccable eye for art and pop culture. Tonight opens a tasty group show assembling America’s finest of a generation of young artists emerging in the first decade of the 21st century – including the likes of Dan Colen, Dash Snow, Terence Koh and some [...]

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Natural Beauty

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Latest project by Lernert & Sander, Natural Beauty, where they consecutively apply make up to the model Halennore Knuts, for a project that took the whole length of 9 hours.
They applied 365 layers of make up to the model in a single day, to check out how much does it takes to go from a natural look [...]

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Colin Snapp / Daniel Turner

Thursday, June 30, 2011

It makes sense that I would discover the work of Daniel Turner and Colin Snapp while haphazardly clicking through VVORK. Their ongoing collaboration, Jules Marquis, encapsulates the omnivorous taste of that lo-fi curatorial forum. Working with and through sculpture, film, performance, installation, appropriation, and many other media, Jules Marquis has created a body of work [...]

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RAKE AND SPADE

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

For friends of jazz and agriculture: Sven-Åke Johansson, known to you as the drawer of helicopters and conductor of tractors, brings you Die Harke und der Spaten this Thursday, June 30, at Kreuzberg Pavillon in Berlin.
DIE HARKE UND DER SPATEN // EVERYTHING IS TAKEN
Opening  Thu. 30 June 2011 / 18-22 h
Open Fri. & Sat. 1-2. [...]

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HUMANS ARE STRANGE

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

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PAST / PRESENT

Monday, June 27, 2011

I know, I know, we’ve been mentioning Mike Mills a few times recently – not that it has to do anything with his latest film Beginners or the beautiful blog he’s dedicated to it (you haven’t seen it? go here right now for a great new dog video) – but this drawing above caught my [...]

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INCENDIES

Sunday, June 26, 2011

This week saw the German release of Canadian masterpiece Incéndies (in Germany released as Die Frau die Singt) which was nominated for Best Foreign Film at this year’s Oscars Awards. Set in the turmoil of the Middle Eastern conflict, it’s one of the most relentlessly crushing and impressive films I’ve seen in a long time. [...]

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Iconic Return

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Google recently launched a new feature its powerful realm of search. Now, we can look for pictures by dropping an image document on the oracle interface: apparently colors and patterns are matched (try pix from your local hard drive which are not labelled “aiweiwei.jpg“). Now, the “woman laughing alone with salad” potentially doesn’t seem all [...]

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ARTY BOLLOCKS GENERATOR

Saturday, June 25, 2011

For lazy artists: The Arty Bollocks Generator!

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CHINESE WHISPERS 17

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Gosh, thank you – we do try…

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