May 2008
55 posts
Paris: Nightime aka "Sometimes I still party"...
Last Saturday night @ Nouveau Casino (Paris) with the So Fresh Squad, Cuizinier, DJ Orgasmic, the Genevan Heathen, Teki Latex, Tido Berman ….. All photos from Gauthier @ www.lazzydigger.com
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you...”
– Margaret Thatcher (via hydeordie)
Paris Chooses Tower by Jean Nouvel for La Défense →
Jean Nouvel is on fire right now.
Nicole Willis & the Soul Investigators If...
"You would have loved it...." Tate Modern...
Friend: i have to say, you would have loved the tate modern exhibit
Friend: to launch it, they had a "come play" series of interactive events over the weekend
Friend: it was amazing
Friend: loads of games in the upper turbine hall, bike ramps outside, orchestra in the lower turbine hall, graffiti outside and all around the museum... it was really great
Friend: there were soooo many kids there
Friend: really fun
Paris: a VERY brief summary
"Street Art" on the Tate Modern
The Tate has once again expanded its art presence in the world by commissioning 15 large scale street art works for the exterior of the epic former power station on the Southbank of London. They are currently on view and will continue to be until summer’s end. The Evening Standard notes the absence of Banksy in the exhibtion (which is obviously free and open to the public 24 hours a day);...
Berlin Philharmonic Escapes Severe Damage via... →
I nearly had a heart attack the other day when I heard the Berlin Phil could have sustained severe (and irreversible?) damage to the concert hall. A fire broke out and early reports seemed to think that the hall’s famed acoustic could have been ruined. Good news - slight water damage and that’s it.
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Geneva & Paris this week
Minute Waltz →
The world in numbers - statistics gathered from many international agencies by the NYTimes.
“The next American president will inherit many foreign policy challenges, but...”
– The New Cold War - New York Times This is the opening line of Thomas L. Friedman’s most recent column. It not be something I love, but it is a reality we need to embrace and resolve. Do we talk with Iran or not? Do we pretend that this issue isn’t as big as it is? Do we continue to...
The Moment:: Required Viewing | ‘Contempt’ by... →
“Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else’s aesthetics. I think you’re...”
– Robert Rauschenberg
“I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop. At the...”
– Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg, Titan of American Art, Is... →
Ephemeral Art & David Byrne
David Byrne’s temporary sound/art installation will use the Great Hall fo the Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan as the instrument for his work. By attaching devices to architectural & structural features throughout the building (which just finished a large scale restoration in 2006) - he’ll “make the building sing”. The sounds will be controlled by an organ...
Will Boris Johnson ditch the Fourth Plinth... →
I hope the new mayor of London doesn’t mess with the Fourth Plinth project in Trafalgar Square. I absolutely adore it.
“Superdense living may not be conventionally beautiful, but it does seem to...”
– The Moment The Post-Materialist | Brutal, Superdense Design Rises Again « - T Magazine - New York Times Blog Currie shouts out Richard Florida’s work - I’m reading his book “Who’s Your City?” - really interesting stuff. More on this soon(ish).
Architects' Home and Office is Less Than Eight... →
I officially love small-scale and simple design solutions that result in unique homes. This reminds me of the Alexandria apartment I tumbled about the other month, as well as the use of storage containers for office space in Berlin. YES!
“You cannot have innovation unless you are willing and able to move through the...”
– Can You Become a Creature of New Habits? - New York Times
In Inner Mongolia, Pushing Architecture’s Outer... →
This could either turn out to be absolutely brilliant or a hodge podge of architectural design - either way, I have to say I’m really excited to see what happens. Very excited because local firm, Uni, is building one of the 100 homes. More here.
The Stage / News / Home Office announces end to... →
This is a great move by the Home Office (UK) to encourage and facilitate international talent to perform in the UK. Difficult and bureaucratic means of procuring visas for short visits often cause undue stress (both financial & emotional) on presenting organizations - therefore discouraging them from tapping into the international scene of any given art. This is a great first step in ensuring...
Six decades on, who needs the ICA? - Times Online →
Richard Morrison waxes nostalgic about the ICA (London). The ICA celebrates 60 years of controversy (and Morrison contends lack thereof recently). I interned in the education department for a semester here while studying in London and didn’t have a clear idea at the time of what role it had played in contemporary art. Now it’s much clearer to me and I’m wondering what the role of...
“SANAA’s New Museum leaves me with a bigger question, too. Is there...”
– Stopped Making Sense by Sarah Williams Goldhagen I really enjoyed reading Goldhagen’s review for The New Republic on SANAA’s New Museum in New York. I haven’t been to the space yet, but I thought that she wrote an article which addresses issues which I constantly think about when...
Obama Wins North Carolina Decisively; Clinton... →
I donated to the Obama campaign last week. It’s time for a change.
YES!
Thank god I read the NYTimes with a passion - I didn’t have any clue that Richard Serra had a large scale installation @ La Nef du Grand Palais in Paris starting today and running through June 15. Steven Erlanger covers not only Serra’s work “Promenade” but also contextualizes it within the French Culture Ministry’s work with the massive Grand Palais space in a...
“The 1,087-seat hall, at Broadway and 65th Street, will reopen on Feb. 22 with a...”
– For Reopening Festival, a Renovated Alice Tully Hall to Focus on ‘New Musical World’ - New York Times This is truly remarkable, when Alice Tully Hall @ the Lincoln Center re-opens in February, no seats for the first two weeks will cost more than $25. I LOVE THIS (HEART!!!)
Common Projects →
Love some of these shoes. Going to check out what Achilles has in stock this week.
He(ART), Me
I haven’t been to NYC in a few months and although there are loads of things to do, people to see, food to eat, shops to visit - NYC for me in all about the art…. 1. Whitney Biennial & Mapplethorpe Polaroids 2. Olafur Eliasson Exhibition @ PS1 (review) 3. Koons & Courbet @ the Met (link) RE-blog with suggestions please :) See you Saturday New York
“I don’t know if Barack Obama can lead that, but the notion that the idealism he...”
– Who Will Tell the People? by Thomas Friedman - New York Times
Jonathan Olivares:: Design Research →
Jonathan’s new website has launched. It’s absolutely beautiful.
Q&A with Richard Shiff on Judd's writings - Modern... →
Chinati Foundation symposium this weekend on the Writings of Donald Judd - definitely a must listen event. I’m not extremely well read on Don Judd’s writing, but I distinctly remember being drawn in by an acceptance speech he gave for an award in the 70s (I think) which I read in Art in Theory (everyone’s favorite art theory text in college). More on this soon….
Beijing Air Terminal Goes All Out for the Games -... →
The title of this article doesn’t actually broach the (underlying?) topic that I found most compelling within; how to balance development and growth with protection of traditions and historical/present identity. In addition, much of the development is being designed by foreign architects, what commitment does the Chinese government have to elevating domestic talent? With big firms like OMA,...
Want Ad: Beautiful Minds →
Unreal - we should all dream to have a job like Brad Grossman had. zachklein: Met Brad Grossman this morning (profiled in above New Yorker piece) who up until three weeks ago was Brian Grazer’s cultural attaché, a job concept that he and Grazer apparently popularized in Hollywood. Basically, Brad was responsible for keeping Brian informed of any and everything, from organic chemistry to the...
Whitney Museum Unveils Its Downtown Sanctuary -... →
Bookmarked for reading when I get home.
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