Something about just hanging there on the side of a building feels very appealing today. Click “Read More” to watch Colossal Media’s documentary, Up There.
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Dream & Awake
August 13, 2010 – 10:22 am
I met Swedish designer Amanda Ericsson in a dark little bar in Paris. After a few minutes spent exchanging pleasantries, she flashed me a coy smile and removed her coat. There, pinned to the front and dead-center of her pants, was a small, white tassled brooch. A grappe de chatte, she calls it (literally, a [...]
Thisartist.tv
August 12, 2010 – 12:33 pm
Thisartist.tv is a project whereby we can watch artists speak intimately about there aesthetics and creative process. The newest of their profiles features our friend and Dossier contributer, Caris Reid. Click “Read More” to watch the video.
Director David Michôd Tames the Animal Kingdom
August 9, 2010 – 8:02 am
Brooding, dense and hypnotic, David Michôd’s feature debut, Animal Kingdom, opening Friday, enters the viewer’s bloodstream quietly, then completely, and leaves a concussive aftershock. Based loosely on real events in the crime world of Michôd’s native Melbourne, Australia, the story of one particular (fictional) thieving family unfolds in lurid detail against a throbbing thicket of [...]
Os Gemeos: Bem-vindo Back to NYC!
August 8, 2010 – 11:28 am
They’re baaaack. Brazilian graffiti artists Os Gemeos climbed aboard two 80-foot cherry pickers on Friday to begin painting a massive yellow man similar to those they’ve created in Sao Paulo, Berlin and London. This particular giant will watch over the playground of P.S. 11 in Chelsea from the school’s west-facing wall. In Jeffrey Deitch’s absence, [...]
Well Done, Judge Walker
August 5, 2010 – 1:17 pm
As you have probably heard, on Wednesday Judge Vaughn Walker of California over-turned Prop 8, the 2008 law which rescinded the right to same-sex marriage in California. Thank God. It’s not by any stretch a final victory, but at least it rectifies the wrong perpetuated by a lot of far-right and Mormon money a few [...]
The Accidental Egyptian Book Launch
August 4, 2010 – 12:17 pm
The book The Accidental Egyptian and Occidental Arrangements features over 25 photograph-based collages of xerox imagery on cut paper. Culling from the personal image collection of the authors, Timothy Hull and Paul Mpagi Seputa, the collages talk about personal relationships and arrangements, with repeating portraits and images of coastal Maine, rainforests and ruins. The book is [...]
Open Air Movies
August 3, 2010 – 11:14 am
One of my absolute favorite things in New York in the summer is outdoor movies. Last summer, as you may remember, it rained every single weekend, and every Thursday as well, so I never managed to get to see any of the movies at Brooklyn Bridge Park. This summer I’ve been traveling so much I [...]
