Sunday, December 23, 2012
The incredible people at Dexter Sinister not only dropped the fourth issue of their fine Bulletins of the Serving Library series this week, but also ‘adjusted’ this beautiful reverse-engineered Casio digital watch, which makes it even easier to grasp the irreversible flow of time.
Here’s how it works: A tiny computer inside the ‘Watch Wyoscan 0.5 [...]
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Both Simon Evans (b. 1972) and Öyvind Fahlström (1928–1976) have developed separate cartographies of the world with the eyes of a traveller. Evans largely produces psycho-geographical maps that enable him to define his own position and location within his environment; beginning with the personal, illuminating common human shortcomings and desires. Fahlström is interested in the [...]
Friday, December 21, 2012
Twigs has also joined the ‘New-R’n’B-Wave’. Her contribution: Simple, quiet not out of submission but seduction. It’s enthralling! The recently released set of videos, partly directed by Grace Ladoja, are definitely worth watching! One of the musical highlights in 2012.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
As it happens, our friends at Purple Magazine filmed the conversation between Robert Montgomery and myself during our London launch for Echoes of Voices in the High Towers. As cringeworthy as it is to see yourself on film, Robert is of course his usual sweet self – see what he has to say over at [...]
Thursday, December 20, 2012
This year, as any year, really, there has been lots of coverage of that wild beast called the United States of America, place of our fantasies and projections alike for the last century or so. But our fantasies or projections, or Hollywood movies for that matter, don’t necessarily come anywhere close to reality, which is [...]
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
The Phoenix Atlas is a project by Okke De Groot, Ana Laura Ferreira and Jan Karan. Their projects are online and mainly focused on writing. Cyprien Gaillard, Pierre Huyghe, Sophie Calle and Félix González-Torres are some of the artists that have been featured in non-existent exhibitions such as Mary, The Butterfly Effect and Love Love Love.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Design legend Ken Garland in a charming interview for Apartamento’s anniversary issue (and congratulations!).
Monday, December 17, 2012
All right, all right, so we featured Flying Lotus a few times on Monday Music, but is it our fault if he gets the best young directors around to produce his videos? This time set to three tracks of his brilliant new album Until the Quiet Comes, by one Kahlil Joseph of the artists’ collective [...]
Saturday, December 15, 2012
The cowboy, Mr. Darko a.k.a Jake Gyllenhaal is at a house party, killing in a fencing suit and chilling in a Turkish bath before murdering for the new video of The Shoes.
Friday, December 14, 2012
The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7) officially opened at the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia last weekend. Established in 1993 the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) is the Queensland Art Gallery’s flagship international contemporary art event. It is the only major series of exhibitions in the world to focus exclusively on [...]