Author Archives: Roi Cydulkin

Appropriate Video

Casiorossi has a new album out, which you can hear on Myspace. Click “Read More” for the new video.

Sean Leonard at Youth Group

Friday evening artist Sean Leonard makes his debut in a solo show at Brooklyn’s up-and-coming Youth Group Gallery. The show consists of a series of appropriated (‘found’) photographs that have been superficially embellished and thereby recontextualized, immediately undermining any sort of basic, subtextual form.  The works have been neither blown up nor titled (and [...]

Palais Schaumburg

If anyone was wondering what Moritz von Oswald, Thomas Fehlmann, and FM Einheit were doing in the early eighties, it sounded (and looked) something like this.  Click ahead for another track.

Aspen

“Until now, every magazine was a bunch of pages stapled together. It arrived in your mailbox folded, mutilated spindled — usually with more ads than editorial. Last year, a group of us enjoying the sun, skiing and unique cultural climate of Aspen Colorado, asked ourselves, ‘Why?’
Why, for example, couldn’t a magazine come in a box? [...]

Lo-fi, High End

Where The Wild Thing Is

Frequent collaborators Spike Jonze and Kanye West released a new short film today entitled We Were Once a Fairytale, and it’s easily their most accomplished work together to date.  While the film is far from apologetic, it nevertheless finds Kanye taking on his recent public image to the point of brutal self-satire.  Culling from references as [...]

ADANSONIAS, Act I

Terence Koh presents ADANSONIAS, A Tragic Opera In 8 Acts
ACT 1
6th October 2009
8 PM
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
7 Rue Debelleyme, 75003. Paris.

Luxury Cowboy

In light of this past season’s collaboration with Gerard Malanga, Adam Kimmel’s decision to hire Jim Krantz, who used to shoot for Marlboro (as in the cigarette), is hardly surprising.  Kimmel sent Krantz down to the same Utah ranch he had used to photograph the Marlboro Man ads to shoot artist (and Kimmel regular) Dan [...]

The World is Flat

As a part of X-Initiative’s No Soul For Sale opening on the 23rd of June, Rhizome will present an exhibition entitled The World is Flat, a series taking the ‘flatness’ of culture characteristic of a web-centered information economy as its orientation.  Artists and collectives including B’L’ing, Anna Lundh, Oliver Laric, Lizzie Fitch, Alexandre Singh and David Horvitz [...]

Screentesting, again

Gerard Malanga, once a close friend and right-hand-man of Warhol’s, has collaborated with designer Adam Kimmel on a new video project in homage to — who else? — his late companion. Unabashedly entitled Screentest, the project was envisioned as a part of Kimmel’s Fall/Winter 2009 presentation in Paris, and sees Malanga, in an extension of [...]