Monthly Archives: April 2010

Sebastien Tellier Look

Below is the video for Sebastien Tellier’s song Look from his album Sexuality. I think the video is so simple, so sexy, and just so very charming! Click “Read More” for the full video.

Crystal Castles at Ritter Butzke, Berlin

Even though Crystal Castles played some gigs and big festivals in 2009, seeing them perform in Europe is still a rare opportunity. With a new album about to be released and some songs already leaked, the Berlin gig was not to be missed. So Ritter Butzke was packed with people eager to see the Canadian [...]

Satisfaction: Consumption Art in Poland, 1973-1979

This Tuesday, Light Industry presents Satisfaction: Consumption Art in Poland, 1973-1979 curated by £ukasz Ronduda. I don’t know much about art in Poland in the 70′s but the press release says that the pop aesthetics were the reaction of a consumer identity in a communist state. I just like the picture of the woman eating [...]

Spring Workshops at The Arm NYC

The Arm NYC is an artist run studio that offers letterpress workshops, public studio space and artist in residency programs. They have five Vandercook presses and three Chandler & Price presses. They also re-furbish and sell used presses. Once you have taken a workshop there you can go use the studio to print on the [...]

Marc Jacobs Opening Party at Milan Design Week

Images by Paolo Simi. Text by Elisa Lusso Brera, one of Milan’s chicest areas, hosted Marc Jacobs’ store opening in the midst of Design Week, intoxicating the audience with an impressive series of clothing and accessories, loud music and good company. Click “Read More” for additional images.

Introducing Ryan McNamara

Artist Ryan McNamara has recently joined Elizabeth Dee gallery. When asked to put together a show introducing himself- he did literally just that. For the next three days you can go and spend time with Ryan while he takes you on a visual and narrative tour through his life and maturation as an artist. I [...]

Dorothy Height

Dorothy Height was the only woman among the leadership of the civil rights movement, and was a tireless campaigner for women’s rights as well as racial equality, feeling them to be inextricably linked. I have to admit I hadn’t heard of her until hearing a piece about her on NPR yesterday, but I’ve since done [...]

Some Funny Commericals

Since I don’t have cable and the only shows I watch with any regularity are Top Model and the odd episode of Gossip Girl, most of the advertising I see is aimed at teenage girls – meaning facewash, knock-off versions of designer clothes and tampons. I usually tune ads out, but these ads for, yes, [...]

Peter Sutherland and Albert Maysles

Albert Maysles is the filmmaker behind such amazing, amazingly weird films as Gimme Shelter and Grey Gardens. He’s going to be in conversation with Peter Sutherland, another chronicler of the slightly strange, on Tuesday, April 20, at Thirty Days Gallery. It’s one of the many events they have going on this month in a pop-up [...]

Guggenheim Competition

To celebrate the close of the Guggenheim’s 50th Anniversary year in May, the museum is holding an online competition, inviting participants to submit their ideas for reimagining the rotunda. The competition corresponds to the current exhibition, Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim, in which of 200 artists, architects and designers put forth their most [...]