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Monthly Archives: May 2013

The Social Factory

Thursday, May 9, 2013

A while ago, the New York Times mentioned, in an article very aptly called ‘If you can’t fix it, art it’, the creative approach to the ever increasing austerity programs and escalating taxes imposed by Troika, by Portuguese protesters.
Inspired by the May 68 and the actions of Parisian protesters, who occupied the fine arts school [...]

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KATY GRANNAN

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Fairs, fairs, fairs. Paris Photo, the Armory, Paris Photo LA, Frieze. A horrible way to see art. No room to move, no room to breathe, works poorly hung. Your eyes bleed by the end. And you see the same things, again and again.

Sometimes, though, you see the same wonderful thing. Katy Grannan’s photographs of people [...]

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Sound and Vision Digital

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Beck recently reimagined Bowie’s “Sound and Vision” staging more than 160 musicians for an interactive 360º experience.

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PROFESSION: POP STAR

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

David Bowie simply is a pro. But genius producer Tony Visconti’s just as amazing.

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TRUISM OF THE DAY 19: WILLEM DAFOE

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

But very elegantly spoken, Mr Willem Dafoe, in the latest issue of Canadian Hobo magazine.

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MONDAY MUSIC: SHABAZZ PALACES

Monday, May 6, 2013

The mighty Shabazz Palaces have announced their follow-up to the glorious Black Up very soon indeed, and judging on their latest offering Ode to Octavia part 12: (Sparkles)… Recollections of the Wraith they seem to have lost neither their musical sparkle nor their knack for long titles. While you wait, you can also indulge in [...]

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THE SECRET LIVES OF MEN

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Regardless of the conversations around the increasing popularity of short stories, or not, The Secret Lives of Men by Georgia Blain is a great read!

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77 MILLION PAINTINGS

Friday, May 3, 2013

The ever-productive musican/producer/artist/serial collaborator Brian Eno, has been in New York this week showing his 77 Million Paintings – one of his generative audio-visual artworks described as being somewhere “between music and painting” that generates itself as you watch it. Tickets to see the installation unfortunately are totally sold out but if you’re really desperate [...]

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All Hail Kahlil (again)

Friday, May 3, 2013

Now that the tired old joke about Kriss Kross is no longer a joke, and the April Fool’s thing about Boards of Canada turned out to be no joke either (not to mention B. Kruger, who wrote down the biggest/truest sentence of the year 2013 in a document entitled “fools.doc”), we don’t want you to [...]

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THE CITY IS WILDER THAN YOU THINK

Thursday, May 2, 2013

As works are beginning on realizing Kater Holzig’s ambitious new utopia on the former premises of its legendary previous incarnation as Bar 25 right by the river Spree, they will be guarded for the entire summer by Robert Montgomery’s wonderful light piece The City Is Wilder Than You Think, thanks to AJL Art. And we [...]

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