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Monthly Archives: October 2013

GOSHA RUBCHINSKIY

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Gosha Rubchinskiy is one of the very few Russian designers who has managed to cross the Iron Curtain and make a name for himself in the West; and with Comme des Garçons taking charge of production and international distribution, you’re likely to hear a lot more of him in the years to come. Unashamedly Russian [...]

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EN VOGUE

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Erwin Blumenfeld’s fashion photography is still ever-present, even with the opulence of high-fashion imagery we are surrounded by. The Parisian gallery Jeu de Paume presents a selection of his photographs, drawings and photomontages and collages, that brings together over 300 works and documents from the late 1910s to the 1960s. A must-see if out and [...]

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Raise The Roof

Thursday, October 31, 2013

We (only) do interviews over here, but ROOF did poetry back in the seventies (in fact they still do), and thanks to Jacket2 (an archival platform for magazines committed to poetry and poetics) you can get yourself a coffee (or a case of beer), call it a week, and dig in.

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KRULE INTENTIONS

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

King Krule–otherwise known under the still magisterial Zoo King–doesn’t let you sit easy with expectations. The 19-year old carrot-top wan faced lad looks more in line, it’s been said, with a certain clan in Harry Potter than the future of jazz indie, a disjunct brought to full force with his ragged melodies and eerie echo of, [...]

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IL PALAZZO ENCICLOPEDICO

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

As this year’s Biennale di Venezia, which is pretty much one of the most beautiful and inspiring exhbitions in recent years, goes into its last month, here is a little snippet by its curator Massimiliano Gioni, who we dedicated an issue to in 2006, when he curated the Berlin Biennial with Ali Subotnick and Maurizio [...]

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WES

Monday, October 28, 2013

Matt Zoller Seitz’s newly released The Wes Anderson Collection looks like a pretty wonderful book on the Wesonian universe; it’s full of interviews, story boards and all those good things. We do love him, needless to say. (And Bill Murray too, he should have another hug). Also, above is the trailer to The Grand Budapest Hotel- [...]

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TRUISM OF THE DAY 23: NARCISO RODRIGUEZ

Saturday, October 26, 2013

And isn’t that what we’re all hoping… Fashion designer Narciso Rodriguez (of Michelle Obama fame) in Interview.

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STORE OF THE MONTH: TABLE OF CONTENTS / PORTLAND

Friday, October 25, 2013

In the epicentre of cool, namely rainy Portland, you can find the beautiful Table of Contents, one of those prime examples of modern shopping, or what commonly goes under the tired banner of ‘concept store’, meaning little else than the offerings being carefully selected and presented, and shouldn’t all stores do that, really? Anyway, Table [...]

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QUICK DRAW

Thursday, October 24, 2013

You read in doodles the automatic writing from daydreams. That is to be the philosophy behind Akira Horikawa’s 1000Drawing Project. For five years Horikawa’s regimen of drawing out daily impressions, oneiro-ventures, chances encounters have reaped a thousand images of the funhouse delirium. Fantastic, erotic, and sometimes eerie, with blank-eyed humans stacked and arranged [...]

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SELF I E-LOVE

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

If you feel a shame-tinge when sneaking a selfie in the H&M changing room, here’s some validation.  Moving Image Art Fair London is holding a National #Selfie Portrait Gallery, featuring works by 19 new artists from Europe and the States.  As they are all video works, they are a bit more complicated than the average Instagram [...]

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