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NAN GOLDIN: SCOPOPHILIA

Friday, December 9, 2011

Nan Goldin’s incredibly personal and emotionally potent photographs are major signposts in the recent history of photography, and have had an indelible influence on subsequent generations of photographers. Her photos also helped reveal our society’s deeply ingrained voyeuristic impulses. We are drawn to her photos not only because of their formal accomplishments, but also because [...]

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IT CHOOSES YOU STORE

Sunday, November 20, 2011

A store based on the book by the fabulous Miranda July.
It Chooses You Resale Shop
Partners & Spade
40 Great Jones
NYC 10012
Open until December 11, 2011.

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SHERRIE LEVINE: MAYHEM

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

“Mayhem” is a curious title for the Whitney Museum of American Art’s recently opened mid-career retrospective of Sherrie Levine’s work. Walking through the museum’s spare galleries is as sedate a subdued trip to Soho’s neo-modern furniture boutiques – a quiet room of smoked-glass skulls encased in mahogany vitrines, a long passage of three perfectly aligned, [...]

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THE ARTIST IS PRESENT

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Even if you didn’t experience it by yourself, most of you will have heard about last year’s The Artist is Present performance retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art in New York where artist Marina Abramović (Yugoslav, b. 1946) created a unique audience experience: a 736-hour and 30-minute static, silent piece, in which she sat [...]

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The Weekender

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Reproducing and updating Massimo Vignelli’s classic 1970 New York City transit map, this new guide to weekend service interruptions is one of the best ideas the Metropolitan Transit Authority has had in a long time. (Not sure if this is one, though). Talk about improving quality of life: if anything needs to be an app, [...]

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MONO.PUNKT #11: NEW YORK ART BOOK FAIR 2011

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

We love New York, and we love book fairs, so it’s pretty evident that we would be ravished by the New York Art Book Fair. Arguably the most important fair of its kind, it’s always a pleasure, especially since its move to the nifty PS1. Since we have other plans for tonight, our friends at [...]

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BEATS IN SPACE

Thursday, September 22, 2011

This Sunday, Tim Sweeney’s legendary and  highly influential radio show Beats in Space celebrates its 12th anniversary with a blow-out celebration in Brooklyn. Featuring heavy-hitters like Juan Maclean, Metro Area, Kim Ann Foxman, and our favorites Blondes, the BIS party sounds like THE perfect way to spend an early fall afternoon. Kind of like my [...]

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September 11

Sunday, September 11, 2011

One Hundred
There was a door because I opened it.
It was the muse. It had a human face.
It had to have to make the three parts fit.
The Cosmos Poems was fire that filled the space
With fire in Life on Earth. The sky
Became a blue lake I was bathing in,
But it was fire. The sun was burning. [...]

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BACK TO THE HANDMADE — THE MAKERS

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Few hours ago Erik Spiekermann was ironically praising the great return to the handmade when commenting this news, about the poor woman who bought a wooden iPad for $180… believing it was for real! But despite the irony directed to this specific and unbelievable case, there seems to be something going on regarding handmade products [...]

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IMPROV EVERYWHERE

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

I stumbled across the brilliant theatre group of sorts, Improv Everywhere, the other day and was pretty amazed – founded in 2001 in New York, they’ve been staging undercover performances in public for a decade now, ranging from spontaneous musicals in supermarkets to gathering thousands of people to do weird things according to instructions given [...]

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