Montreal is home to a great many fantastic musicians. A-Trak, Chromeo, Leonard Cohen, Arcade Fire, AIDS Wolf, you name it. Yes, Celine Dion calls it home, too, but let’s not talk about that and I think that Canada deprived her of her citizenship last year anyways. It just seems as if this city was the [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2009
The Wright at the Guggenheim
December 10, 2009 – 8:00 am
Tuesday night the Guggenheim opened it’s new restaurant, The Wright, for a press preview. Andre Kikoski’s design takes its form from the mother structure, draping the 1,600-sq-foot room in clean layered curves. Enlivening this is a sculpture of mod-colored aluminum bars by Liam Gillick, which gives a vivid, linear counterpoint to the swerving walls. Gillick’s [...]
Ikons – “Guns”
December 9, 2009 – 10:00 am
The Ikons new self-titled album, released by the Gothenburg-based label SRVC, is now streaming at SRVC’s website. A new video for the track “Slow Light” has been posted as well, but while I appreciate the reference to Holbein’s The Ambassadors, I’m a bit more enamored with the video for “Guns”.
Going Rogue Digested
December 9, 2009 – 7:21 am
Yesterday the John Crace’s weekly Digested Read section in the Guardian featured Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue: An American Life. It’s perfect for those who neither want to pay for the book or actually go through the ordeal of reading it.
Washington Post Fail
December 7, 2009 – 6:19 am
On Thursday the Washington Post was forced to print a correction after an article claimed Public Enemy had claimed 9/11 was a joke.
When the Book Becomes Art Itself: Ari Marcopoulos
December 1, 2009 – 4:13 am
Another day, another Ari Marcopoulos book. The epic photographer of emotive portraiture, who has been around for a number of years, has put together a new book – or has he? More a catalogue than an actual book, it is compiled to coincide with the exhibition Ari Marcopoulos: Within Arm’s Reach, at the Berkeley Art [...]
