All I ever hear is how print is dying. I imagine myself stuck in a time warp while the rest of the world twitters and I listen to Biggie and Nirvana happily flipping magazine pages. Add a beaded curtain to that fantasy just for fun. When people ask me why we started Dossier as a [...]
Author Archives: Katherine Krause
Grey Area
August 21, 2011 – 7:52 pm
One of the things I find most inspiring is people turning everyday objects into something more. Since launching in July, Kyle DeWoody and Manish Vora, the founders of Grey Area have been dedicated to curating a selection of such elevated objects that navigate the space in between art and design. They launched with a pop-up [...]
Shelter
August 17, 2011 – 10:13 am
For the past 17 years, artist and visionary Robert Wilson of The Watermill Center has been running the most creative summer camp around. Comprised of 50-100 artists from over 30 countries, the participants spend a few weeks each year immersed in a carefully curated art and performance program with a focus on diverse disciplines. For [...]
Wassaic Project
August 6, 2011 – 9:29 am
This weekend is the fourth annual Wassaic Project Summer Festival, which includes three days of events featuring exhibits with over 100 artists, 23 bands, dance performances, poetry readings and midnight film screenings shown in a big barn. Not only is this festival free but people are encouraged to camp on the grounds. There are so [...]
Sunday Below Ground
July 8, 2011 – 9:12 am
Graphic design has come to mean a lot of different things these days. Once the red-headed step-child of the art world, the term has come to encompass collage, short films, publications, print editions, and objects. Next week, the graduates from the Graphic Design BA program at Camberwell College of Arts are putting on a show [...]
Invasion of The Pines
July 3, 2011 – 9:48 am
In 1976, a drag queen was refused entry into a restaurant in The Pines, Fire Island which prompted a whole slew of drag queens to take a water taxi and ‘invade’ the Pines. At that time, Cherry Grove was predominately more gay than The Pines- today they are both gay beach communities, making the Pines [...]
Tin Roof Rusted
June 30, 2011 – 11:08 am
Colin Snapp and Daniel Turner have been collaborating under the name Jules Marquis for over a decade, putting on some amazing shows that find the extraordinary in the very mundane details of life- my favorite being a two hour loop of “good game,” the hand-slapping ritual that follows any high school sports game. Tonight with [...]
Thug Life
May 22, 2011 – 12:03 pm
I’ve watched Vice TV a few times and I am always impressed by the topics taken on by a magazine made famous for Dos and Don’ts. Right now they have an amazing video up about the Holy Thug Saints of Caracas, Venezuela. In a city where more than 100 murders are logged each weekend (14,000 [...]
I Like Pretty Things
May 13, 2011 – 10:59 am
This weekend, Noho Design District – organized by the lovely ladies of the design website SightUnseen- are launching their second annual three-day design festival in the American Design Building at Great Jones Lumber. Starting today, they’ll be bringing together international design brands and local businesses featuring exhibitions, parties, and performances in collaboration with ICFF. There [...]
