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Monthly Archives: April 2014

CLUBLAND REVISITED

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Contemporary dance culture has deep roots in the LGBT communities. However, it seems that this background is still largely unrecognised today. Terre Thaemlitz aka DJ Sprinkles is therefore a major figure within the club scene. By making this very origin visible and talking about the issues around this discourse, she is also one of dance [...]

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Are We Having Fun?

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Berlin’s annual Gallery Weekend is coming up, and this year Pointer Footwear and Lodown Magazine joined forces to revive an old institution, one that’s located right next to an even older institution that’s about to die after 121 years in business: good ol’ 95 Gallery – this is what it looked like back [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: LITTLE DRAGON

Monday, April 28, 2014

Everyone’s darlings, Little Dragon, about to release their new offering, Nabuma-Rubberband…

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LOOKING FORWARD: 8TH BERLIN BIENNALE

Monday, April 28, 2014

The online accreditation to the preview of the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art closes this Thursday, May 1, 2014 – so don’t be late!
Juan A. Gaitán, curator of this year’s edition of the Berlin Biennale, about the exhibition:
“The 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art will bring together a range of local and international artistic [...]

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TRUISM OF THE DAY 27: ROBERTA SMITH

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Art critic heavyweights Roberta Smith and Jerry Saltz – coincidentally also a couple in real life – talk about their craft, writing as a form of thinking and the state of the arts, in Interview.

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STATIONERY COMPOSITIONS

Friday, April 25, 2014

I have yet to meet a graphic designer who does not fall prey to a slight obsession with stationery – drawers full of unused notebooks, desks cluttered with pencils from Japan or rubber stamps from Poland. A mildly addictive habit shared/exploited by the lads at London-based Present&Correct, that mecca for stylish household / office wares [...]

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THANK YOU FOR THE FLOWERS

Thursday, April 24, 2014

We’re utterly thrilled to be featured in French design bible The Shelf, with a whopping 18 pages… Interview and images galore, all in their trademark lovely design. Whoopee!

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COLORADO HOUSE

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Colorado House is a small publishing company that focuses on beautiful, heart-warming editions based on collaborations with writers, artists, technicians and craftspeople. Their mission – my heart’s sparkling – to advance ’small, unlikely ideas that are in ongoing danger of being lost, forgotten or ruled out’. The first edition of ‘TIMES’ is available on their [...]

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TWINKLE TWINKLE

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Since relocating back to sunny Philadelphia (guys, the sunny part is a joke), I’ve been wanting to shed some love on one of Anerica’s most underrated art-poli. Because it’s been so gloomy recently, I feel particularly drawn to the work of Ray King–no pun intended–whose iridescent, delicate structures have been exhibited in multiple [...]

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B4XVI

Friday, April 18, 2014

It’s the one Tumblr to end all Tumblrs: B4XVI, a blog established to document “an invisible conversation between hip hop and art before the 16th century” – happy Easter!

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