New Deal, an exhibition curated by Matthew Moravec and Kyle Thurlow showcasing fourteen of New York’s best young artists, will host its opening reception at 7:00 pm this Thursday at theArt Production Fund’s Houston Street gallery. While all of the featured New Deal artists fall in the age-range (26-and-under) considered that of artistic infancy in [...]
Author Archives: Chad Richard Buchholz
Chairlift live at the Journal
March 11, 2009 – 4:13 pm
A few days shy of embarking on an extensive North American/European tour, Brooklyn’s Chairlift stopped by The Journal’s Williamsburg gallery to play a short, sweet and semi-secret show. Admittedly, I had been skeptical of the recent Columbia signees, but listening to Caroline Polachek sing “I’m feeling great tonight” from soon-to-be-reissued debut Does You Inspire You [...]
Super! Mon Amour in Paris
February 12, 2009 – 4:25 pm
There’s some pretty shredding rock/roll/dance shows coming to France from now through the March. Running from February 11th – 22nd, the Super! Mon Amour festival is relatively intimate as far as music happenings go. Featuring 14 bands and seven shows in some of the better venues in Paris, the fest has done away with the [...]
Jonas Reinhardt, White Hills, Soft Circle, ARP, Aa
February 5, 2009 – 2:50 pm
I’m tempted to label this show ‘challenging,’ for a couple of reasons. Firstly there’s the purely logistical challenge of standing on cold concrete to take in full sets by five different bands. If you count set-up, performance, and take-down, each set averages out to roughly an hour in duration.
Perfect Days at Galerie Plume in Paris
January 28, 2009 – 11:16 pm
Today, Dossier creative director Skye Parrott’s Perfect Days exhibition opens at Galerie Plume in Paris. Parrott’s soft-focus cinemascapes framed as dreamy recollections blur the line between archive and memory. Perfect Days invites us to draw from our own past, remember those days that felt like they might never end, and realize that in some way, they never did. Copies of the [...]
