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Monthly Archives: April 2015

WALKING IN NEW YORK

Friday, April 24, 2015

Tomorrow, The New York Times Magazine (under the art direction of Matt Willey, who also designed our ever so popular issue with Chris Ware) will feature one of the most impressive covers I’ve seen in a while, featuring a giant 50m-tall paste-up by street artist JR, on the theme of walking in the city. Nice [...]

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STAMP COLLECTING, 2015

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Who knows how long those lovely little pieces of graphic design called stamps are still going to be around for, so to preserve their legacy for the future, creative director Blair Thomson has started a wonderful Instagram account called Graphilately showcasing the weird and the wonderful from the world of stamp design. Read more over [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: BLUR

Monday, April 20, 2015

Blur is a reunion I personally really could have done without, but their video for the new single Lonesome Street is superbly tongue in cheek – the question is only which cheek, because what I read here is: didn’t anybody tell these guys it isn’t 1996 anymore?

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HUMBABA

Saturday, April 18, 2015

Besides the well-known Greek mythology, Mesopotamia hides epics consisting of several myths. The Epic of Gılgamesh from Ancient Mesopotamia, is one of them which is written in Sumerian and Assyrian. As the first written language in the world, Sumerian has no reminiscence to any language in the world.
Apparently, the well known stories in the Bible, Torah [...]

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STORE OF THE MONTH: KUNSTGRIFF / ZÜRICH

Thursday, April 16, 2015

The former Löwenbräu brewery is a must-go for any art lover in Zürich, hosting a fantastic range of private galleries, institutions like the Migros Museum and arts-related enterprises such as the excellent publisher Edition Patrick Frey. Of course, that demands a bookstore that is up to par, and Kunstgriff certainly are. Located conveniently near the [...]

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DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

If Tumblr was a city, Devonté Hynes and Neneh Cherry’s “He She Me” vid would be its promo clip. The camera swims through the darkness following a female? protagonist who is entranced by the weird yet never weirded out. The viewer is never quite anchored via master shot except at the video’s conclusion; at times [...]

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TRUISM OF THE DAY 35: BRICE MARDEN

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

It’s easy to forget that the entire art market craze is entirely artificial, as pointed out elegantly by New York painting heavyweight Brice Marden in another beautiful interview at Interview.

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CROON

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Politically iffy? Do-rag aside, the viral video by lanky Minnesotan teen Spooky Black promises a lot of talent and despite the tongue-in-cheek twiggy backdrop, surprises with its pathos.

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MONDAY MUSIC: HOT CHIP

Monday, April 13, 2015

Since their stunning work for the likes of Radiohead, Blur and Coldplay in the early noughts, UK-based studio Shynola tend to focus mostly on feature film work, so a new music video by them is always a welcome treat, in particular when it is for such a beautiful track as Need You Now from the [...]

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straight ahead

Thursday, April 9, 2015

With his second volume of poetry, The Less Deceived, Philip Larkin became the preeminent poet of his generation, and a leading voice of what came to be called ‘The Movement’, a group of young English writers of the 50’s known for their commitment to a clear and formalistic diction instead of too much sentimentalism in [...]

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