Tomorrow evening (the 14th) there will be an opening for Anna Kleberg‘s new installation Back and Forth at b Store in London. Click “Read More” for the flyer with RSVP info.
Category Archives: Architecture
Pike Loop, a Robot-Built Installation
September 28, 2009 – 6:55 am
This Wednesday, the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York will inaugurate its month-long building project, Pike Loop. A curling brick wall, designed by Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler, will be built over the course of the month entirely by a robot. The one-armed industrial claw – aptly named R.O.B. – employs the same technology and [...]
Civilization and the Ascent from Hell to Heaven
September 23, 2009 – 7:34 am
These are stills from Marco Brambilla‘s video Civilization, which is currently installed in the elevators of the Standard Hotel in New York City. The video is installed so that it plays in sync with the elevators: as the elevator ascends the viewer experiences the movement from a hellish environment to a heavenly one. To see the video [...]
Life in a Koolhaas
July 30, 2009 – 8:59 am
One of the highlights of Boule to Braid, the excellent show curated by Richard Wentworth currently showing at London’s Lisson Gallery, is Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoîne’s film Koolhaas Houselife. Set in Rem Koolhaas‘ ”Maison à Bordeaux”, completed in 1998, the camera follows the villa’s live-in housekeeper and an assortment of maintenance men as they clean and [...]
Ancient
June 15, 2009 – 4:16 pm
Our friend Josh Slater curated the current show at C.R.E.A.M. Projects in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Brave the craptastic weather and soak in some art. For more about Josh: newslaterart.blogspot.com
LA Art Weekend 2009
April 16, 2009 – 3:26 pm
As a follow up to last year’s inaugural event, ForYourArt and Black Frame gave us the second annual Los Angeles Art Weekend, a citywide web of exhibitions, lectures and performances from standouts in art, architecture, design, and music. All the city was a playground, from Santa Monica to Beverly Hills and as far east as [...]
212box Designs Christian Louboutin Showroom
January 21, 2009 – 9:33 am
New York City design partnership 212box is anything but orthodox. Its stated intent to produce “works of architectural rigor and impact” drives an exhaustive methodology which, when combined with an eye for overlooked design opportunities, has made 212box a force behind revolutionary design research. Another innovator—famed French shoe designer Christian Louboutin—recently tapped 212box to design [...]
Daniel Perlin Builds a House
November 17, 2008 – 11:56 am
Ever look around at the frenzied construction of Bloomberg-era New York City and wonder how to turn it into art? On November 18th at Studio-X, multimedia artist Daniel Perlin will do just that, and in a novel way: using screws, glue, nails, sawhorses, an audio cassette and a laptop to question work and construction as [...]
Apartamento Issue #02 Release at Matter
November 6, 2008 – 5:36 pm
Last Thursday, I attended the Apartamento Issue #02 launch party, which was, surprisingly, not held at an apartment. The crowd, primarily European art types, gathered at downtown design store Matter to sip on what seemed like an endless supply of Peroni, and toast the second-ever issue of a magazine exclusively devoted to “everyday life interiors.” [...]
Don’t Throw Stones: Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House
October 2, 2008 – 3:52 pm
Before Phillip Johnson’s Glass House and the lucid frenzy that ensued (not to mention the one presently taking place in New York), there was the Farnsworth House. Arguably Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s most famous structure and a beloved National Historic Landmark, the Farnsworth House set the standard for pared down, minimalist style that continues [...]
