In his first solo New York exhibition, The Only Living Boy in New York (running through January 23 at Sloan Fine Art), Dutch pop-surrealist Chris Berens offers a Hieronymus Bosch meets Mark Ryden-esque vision of chimerical life bubbling up from the whitewashed corpse of a frozen metropolis. With a defamiliarized post-apocalyptic Manhattan as the predominant [...]
Author Archives: Marlo Kronberg
Partners & Spade
November 13, 2009 – 4:28 am
Partners & Spade is a shop/gallery/studio space located at 40 Great Jones St. in Manhattan that houses a smörgåsbord of curios, objets d’art, eccentric bric-a-brac and enough whimsy to make you feel like you’ve stepped into the living room of a fiercely cool grandparent’s house. Founded in 2008 by art lovers Andy Spade (the [...]
Q&A with Washed Out
November 6, 2009 – 8:00 am
Ernest Greene a.k.a Washed Out is poised at the precipice of being the next huge thing in electro-pop. On his bedroom-hatched debut EP Life of Leisure, recently released by Mexican Summer, 26-year-old Georgia native Greene delivers an acid-washed, sun-stroked pastiche of 80’s synth-pop, Caribbean percussion, post-punk guitar wails, and a whole slew of other [...]
Today, too, I experienced something I hope to understand in a few days
November 3, 2009 – 7:35 pm
Danish poet and film director Jørgen Leth’s 1969 short film The Perfect Human.
The Clientele: Bonfires on the Heath
October 21, 2009 – 5:34 am
London dreampop quartet The Clientele’s new LP Bonfires on the Heath is a soft focus, slow shutter patchwork of autumn-hued dreamscapes and wood-scented October sunsets. Their first LP since 2007’s Suburban Light, Bonfires on the Heath is teeming with spectres, phantom choirs, disconnected voices in fields, haunted nights, and psychedelic sonic flourishes. According to lead [...]
Italian rock ‘n’ roll chanteuse Mina
October 20, 2009 – 12:50 pm
Italian sex pot Mina Mazzini performing the molto sensuale song “L’Importante e Finire” in 1975.
