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Monthly Archives: August 2014

BERLIN ATONAL

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Tonight opens the 2014 installment of Berlin Atonal – a legendary festival of 1980s West Berlin pioneering electronic music that went on hiatus after the fall of the wall, only to return again in 2013 in founder Dimitri Hegemann’s new space, the impressive former power plant Kraftwerk Berlin. Launching with Ensemble Modern interpreting Steven Reich, [...]

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BOFILLTOPIAS POSTSCRIPT

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Maybe the most inadvertently accurate footnote on Ricardo Bofill’s architecture from the 1980s comes from Cyprien Gaillard, our interviewee of issue #24 who actually, at the time, introduced us to the work of Bofill. A mixture of fascination and skepticism exemplified beautifully in Gaillard’s short film The Lake Arches, shot, of course, at Les [...]

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BOERUM HOUSE & HOME

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Boerum House & Home via Old Brand New.

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QUIET COMING

Monday, August 18, 2014

“Wildcat is a state of mind; an experiment inspired by the composition and performance of jazz music.
The characters that populate this world are actual – cowboys; and envisioned – angels.
The town they all inhabit is real – Grayson, Oklahoma.”
2012 gave us “Until the Quiet Comes”, the pithy collaboration between filmmaker Kahlil Joseph and musician Flying Lotus. Its [...]

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TURIST

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Force Majeure (or Turist, which is its original title) is the latest film of Ruben Östlund; director of previous films such as Play and Involuntary. Force Majeure examines the consequences of a father’s decision to run for his life and leave his family behind when nature comes crashing in at a ski resort in the [...]

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Lago Di Efterklango

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Danish band Efterklang is back — with a web radio station called “The Lake”: “The Lake runs 24 hours daily and aims to be the anti-thesis of commercial radio. Its function is to serve as a platform for experimental and inspiring music, sounds and radio art, without playlists, boundaries or limitations. The carefully curated library [...]

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WOULD THEY IF THEY COULD

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Selfies taken by statues in the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, Ireland by anonymous only known by Reddit username Jazsus_ur_lookin_well. While more meme exhibitionism than witty irreverence, I have to admit it’s funny…it’s telling–of what though?–that I mistook it for a lesser example of today’s artwork.

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BOFILLTOPIAS #05: LES ARCADES DU LAC

Friday, August 15, 2014

As the last episode of our personal favourites of Bofilltopias, please welcome the grandiose Les Arcades du Lac. Built in 1982 and the first project of many to be realised by Ricardo Bofill in France, Les Arcades du Lac was part of the ‘nouvelles villes’ scheme, where entire cities were commissioned outside of Paris to [...]

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MAY THE CIRCLE REMAIN UNBROKEN

Thursday, August 14, 2014

With Instagram and virtually every other photographer shooting from the hip these days, it’s easy to forget that 20 years ago, that kind of snapshot photography was entirely unacceptable in a commercial context. With pioneers in casual snaps for high end fashion such as Juergen Teller, Wolfgang Tillmans and Terry Richardson having ascended to super [...]

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THE UGLIEST ANSWER

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

After a period of silence they are now torturing our eyes and ears again with their strident techno/rap/pop-noise and their particular sense for ugliness. An appearance, that evokes the interest of those of the same kind, being turned down: their former admirer and now antagonist Lady Gaga takes the answer easy – at least from [...]

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