The elliptic title of Andrew Cramer’s new show at Milk invites us to complete a well-worn phrase. According to Cramer, however, the line has been changed: Happiness is no longer a warm gun, but a cool one. Behold a KMK automatic rendered as a hip Warholian screen print. Notice that the image is both strident [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Organic Obamas
March 20, 2009 – 11:11 am
I posted earlier in the week about Alice Waters’ campaign to get the Obamas to plant a vegetable garden on the White House lawn. Well, Michelle Obama will being digging today for an 1100-square-foot organic garden on the White House lawn, which will grow everything from lettuce to tomatillos to heirloom varieties like anise hyssop, [...]
Cheap Monday’s Customized Jeans Tour at INVEN.TORY
March 19, 2009 – 4:39 pm
Having already rocked the skinny jeans off Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin and London, Cheap Monday’s Customized Jeans Tour landed in New York this week to coincide with the opening of INVENT.ORY’s new Lafayette Street store. Dossier was on hand to witness the opening party that featured Swedes, sweet tunes, one-of-a-kind distressed denim pieces and more than [...]
Eno Henze: The Man and the Machine
March 19, 2009 – 3:36 pm
There exists an undeniable link between the systems found in macrocosms and how they are mimicked, so handsomely, in microcosms. In his most recent exhibition, “Of Dark Matter and Gray Substance,” on view at Marion Scharmann gallery in Berlin, German artist Eno Henze has sought out a system to illustrate this symmetry and render the [...]
Specious Splendor: Rooftop Films featuring Mountains at Chelsea Market
March 18, 2009 – 3:23 pm
Rooftop Films is a New York City-based film series that screens the work of underground filmmakers in unusual settings, though primarily in venues referenced in the namesake. When the weather does not permit rooftop screenings, RF moves the events into locations that can best replicate the minimalist layout and expansive setting of a rooftop. Earlier [...]
The Hydes of March
March 17, 2009 – 12:23 pm
In 1976 John Szarkowski, the late photographer and curator, wrote, “The world now contains more photographs than bricks.” To imagine cities built from photographs is to assume that a photograph is not only an image but an object, a material as dense as a brick with information and possibility. Photographs could perform in a frame [...]
The Mother of Slow Food on 60 Minutes
March 17, 2009 – 9:38 am
Alice Waters, who we profiled in Issue 1 of Dossier, was interviewed last night on 60 Minutes about good, real food, sustainability, and her Edible Schoolyard project. The interviewer was definitely pandering a little to the masses (like her incredulousness at the fact that Waters has no microwave), but even so it’s amazing to see Slow Food [...]
The Visionaire Collection Goyard Trunk
March 16, 2009 – 6:10 pm
Visionaire, the boutique publisher of multi-format art and fashion “albums,” has released its first fifty issues as a single collection big enough to fill a Goyard trunk. As it happens, this particular Goyard trunk opens into a chiffonier, and each issue can be stored snugly in its own shelf, slot, compartment or pouch. For Visionaire, [...]
Tracking the Elusive Engine
March 13, 2009 – 4:25 pm
As film projection systems come, the Engine is weird. A spindly, menacing apparatus of oxidized steel, it could easily have doubled as a prop in David Lynch’s Dune if not for the 17-by-10-foot movie screen it supports. The product of 4,000 hours of labor by Silver Lake-based filmmaker Burke Roberts and his Bizzurke Army collective, [...]
