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FESTIVAL OF DANGEROUS IDEAS

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

The eighth Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI) is a compelling weekend of challenging, inspirational and robust discussion with powerful speakers from around the world. The Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI) is back with dangerous ideas and speakers from around the world. In FODI land, you will be able to explore a dark and dangerous landscape [...]

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UNREALIZED

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

In an era of conceptual art, it’s ironic  that not all concepts are consummated. Bringing them to light, if not life, Hans Ulrich Olbrist with Julieta Aranda, and Anton Vidokle has created a Agency of Unrealized Projects (AUP), an archive of “the forgotten projects, the directly or indirectly censored projects, the partially realized projects, the misunderstood projects, [...]

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HAPPY YET?

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Few things are as hard to describe as happiness, an emotion defined more by the objects and events that elicit it. Perdiz magazie tasks itself with collecting these highly rarified  moments with hopes of distilling and imparting happiness to its readers. Different components of the emotion–love, hopes, creativity, pleasure–form the content, and the candy-colored graphic design [...]

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VIRTUAL REALITY REPORTAGE

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Last weekend, the New York Times Magazine, ever worth watching and recently in the hands of art director Matt Willey – who also designed our issue with Chris Ware – forayed into new territories of virtual reality. The issue came with Google’s cardboard VR viewer that you can slide your smartphone into to access a [...]

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LONG STREET COFFEE

Saturday, September 12, 2015

A café to help train asylum seekers? A no-brainer of an idea—here’s what it actually took to get it off the ground! ‘How to start a business for good – on a really tight budget‘. Go Long Street Coffee! (via Dumbo Feather)

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FESTIVAL OF DANGEROUS IDEAS

Monday, August 3, 2015

The Festival of Dangerous Ideas brings leading thinkers and culture creators from around the world to the Sydney Opera House stages and online to discuss and debate the important ideas of our time.
Festival of Dangerous Ideas
5-6 September, 2015
Sydney Opera House
Australia

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Most Exclusive Website

Monday, July 6, 2015

Waiting in line, or queuing if you prefer, used to be a cultural strategy to cope with deficit. In an age of abundance, waiting becomes a monastery-like virtue. But not it’s not only selective minimalism of urban micro-brew knowledge, third wave coffee meticulousness or single speed bike fetishism indicating the less is beautiful consumerism: Please, [...]

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MY OWN PRIVATE I DON’T KNOW

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Photograph by Skylar Williams (for Purple Fashion)
Eckhaus Latta once again proved their inventive and avant garde take on fashion at this years New York Fashion Week FW 2015. Being reminiscent of a certain nostalgia paired with the flair of contemporary twenty-somethings, the runway show merged into an artistic performance. The FW collection was also presented [...]

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EMPATHY WITH THINGS

Sunday, February 1, 2015

Mark Leckey, Circa 87, 2014 (Courtesy: Galerie Buchholz)
Although his oeuvre spans little more than 15 years, British artist Mark Leckey (born in 1964) is already considered a reference for a young generation of artists. After his studies he withdrew from the art world for nearly a decade. In 1999, with the video Fiorucci Made Me [...]

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DIDION THE DOWNER

Friday, January 9, 2015

New face of Céline is the legendary writer Joan Didion… As a tribute to Didion, Vogue U.S. has re-published one of her essays on self-respect from the year 1961.
“…To such doubtful amulets had my self-respect been pinned, and I faced myself that day with the nonplussed wonder of someone who has come across a vampire [...]

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