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Monthly Archives: June 2009

Do Canaries Have Accents? Notes From Berlin: Carsten Höller

POST BY: KAREN ARCHEY

Installation detail of Carsten Höller’s “Vogel Pilz Mathematik” at Esther Schipper. Image via Contemporary Art Daily.
AFC Associate Editor Karen Archey was fortunate enough to spend some time in Berlin during our recent European art tour.  This series of reviews reflects a handful of galleries we visited throughout May and June.
Esther Schipper
Linienstrasse 85,
D-10119 [...]

Variations in Design Practice @ Bolsky Gallery /// Otis College (part I of III)

Machine Project Deforestation Squad


pics:tryharder

Variations in Design Practice

works by: Aaron Rose, Abake, Carolina Trigo, Machine Project, Keetra Dixon, and Leigh Okies

PR: Otis MFA in Graphic Design hosts an international two-day symposium, “Untitled: Variations in Design Practice.” This symposium will set in motion a bi-annual event that welcomes the design and art community to Otis to engage in the everyday experience of a graduate student…

June 27 – July 1, 2009
Bolsky Gallery
Otis College of Art and Design

Double Trouble!


So last night I had a little screening for my E! news gig, and who do you suppose came? Miss Behati Prinsloo herself. We just found out we’ll be working together on a shoot for the first time in a long while. I would have to say, the last time we shot together was probably one of the best shoots ever. Why? Because we accomplished nothing. It was smiles and giggles the entire time.

We’ll be shooting in Toronto, so I’m excited to show her around my town. We also plan on going to the screening of Valentinos movie, “the Last Emperor” in Toronto as well. It should be lots of fun!!!
Watch out Canada here we come!!!

Pssschhh

The view from Nomiya : Art Home on the rooftop of Palais de Tokyo, a restaurant for 12 persons only, with chef Gilles Stassart cooking next to you. A great experience. Reserve now !
Bar Hemingway, Ritz : The Drop Dead Letter Club, founded by Jefferson Hack, is back

Supergroup The Dead Weather, with Jack White, Alisson [...]

I NEED DOWN TIME

charasmatic riccardo barsottelli has opened a virginia creeper-encrusted italian bolthole bursting with antique terracotta, a panoramic terrace (with harry bertoia side chairs) looking out towards the sea, protected by a vast surrounding olive grove, just 30 minutes from pisa airport, and viareggio on the tirenic coast

http://www.locandaalcolle.it/
mandix
mandi’s basement

Spotted


Me and the oh so wonderful Javier Peres were papped last week at Ponystep’s relaunch dinner. There are so many reasons why I love Javier and all the artists he represents. If my life was a cartoon, he and Maureen Paley would be the devil and black angel on my shoulders. Makes me think about the imagery around temptation…

Jefferson Hack at Purple Institute, Paris. Photo Olivier Zahm

Jefferson Hack at Purple Institute, Paris. Photo Olivier Zahm


Pierre Le-Tan wearing his Belgian Shoes, which he buys at 110…

Pierre Le-Tan wearing his Belgian Shoes, which he buys at 110 East 55th Street in New York, sitting at the Purple Institute, Paris. Photo Olivier Zahm


Closing time at the Café de Flore, Paris. Photo Olivier Zahm

Closing time at the Café de Flore, Paris. Photo Olivier Zahm


Lizzi Bougatsos’s band IUD performing at Santos Party…

Lizzi Bougatsos’s band IUD performing at Santos Party House, New York. Photo Rachel Chandler


Martin PARR “Playas” @ Kamel Mennour, Paris


opening June 30, 2009
www.kamelmennour.fr

THE DEATH OF FASHION CRITICISM: PARIS MEN’S SPRING 2010

The shows are done. The editing starts now...The shows are done. The editing starts now…
When a collection provokes polite indifference all you have is the proof that the synapses of all in question have stopped firing.

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Zebra Standards 29 – R. Stevie Moore (1978/2006)

Video assembled in 2006 by Nuno Monteiro using footage from George Romero’s “There’s Always Vanilla”

Zebra Standards – R. Stevie Moore (1978/2006)

Video assembled in 2006 by Nuno Monteiro using footage from George Romero’s “There’s Always Vanilla”

Current Reading: The Private World Of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge : Robert Murphy and Ivan Terestchenko

Yves Saint Laurent residence photographed by  Ivan TerestchenkoYves Saint Laurent residence photographed by Ivan Terestchenko

I first became aware of this book via sharp comment on TI regarding Hedi Slimane’s pictures of Berge and St Laurent’s rue Babylone pad in Vogue Paris.

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Bravo Announces Casting Call For The Untitled Art Project

White Columns Executive Director and artist Matthew Higgs.
More than a year after announcing the development of a new reality show for artists, Bravo finally announces nationwide casting calls. Developed by Sarah Jessica Parker’s Pretty Matches Productions and Emmy-nominated Magical Elves, Inc., the reality TV project pits thirteen aspiring artists against one another in competition for [...]

Latifa ECHAKHCH “Pendant que les champs brulent – Part 2 @ Kamel Mennour, Paris


opening June 30, 2009
www.kamelmennour.fr