November 2008
12 posts
Shepard Fairey - "Supply and Demand" Coming to ICA...
Where mainstream meets rebellion, the first solo museum show for street art mogul Shepard Fairey, entitled “Supply and Demand,” will be opening in February at the Institute of Comtemporary Art in Boston. While Fairey has undoubtedly attained market success with his Obey label and Barak Obama posters, his work is met with harsh judgment from fellow street artists and art critics alike...
Mr.: Nobody Dies
On view at the Lenmann Maupin gallery is a 35 minute film by Kaikai Kiki contributor Mr. The first film by the Japanese artist expands upon his examination of the Otaku subculture, which emerged in the 1970s and mainly consists of obsessive males whose fetishes include cuteness or kawaii, Mr. uses adolescent Japanese girls he discovered on the streets of Tokyo as the subjects for his film. ...
RedBull Crashed Ice Open Draft
As a child growing up playing ice hockey I always fantasized what it would be like if all the city streets became frozen over and the world became a giant ice rink. I dreamed how awesome it would be to take the game to another dimension: gliding through street intersections, zipping through an alleyway, and body checking anyone who got in my way through a storefront window. Thanks to the amped...
Inazuma Festival: Japan Celebrates Americana
by Kiya Babzani for Cool Hunting
Japan’s love affair with Americana is no secret. Hot rods, hamburgers and Harleys hold a special place in Japanese culture and their market for classic denim and workwear is thriving. So it’s no surprise that the global leader in dressing up like the Fonz celebrated the fourth annual Inazuma Festival this Sunday on Odaiba, an island just off the...
Insight Dopamine Campaign
The Dopamine campaign from Australian skate/surf clothing company, Insight, is an inspired collection of photography in film that is infused with imagery from counterculture art movements of the 30’s and 50’s. Shot in a grainy black and white, this is not your typical surf film as highlight reel aerials cut abruptly to surreal underwater scenes of decadence: a man in a lab coat...
Prince Of Kunqu: Jazz Meets Chinese Opera
by Louisa Lim for NPR Morning Edition
Imagine a musical cross between a 600-year-old form of Chinese opera and free-form jazz. It sounds like a clash of musical cultures, and in some ways it was.
On stage, with heavy white makeup pancaking his face, his body swathed in embroidered silken robes, Jeffrey Zhang looks every inch the traditional Chinese opera singer. So it comes as a shock when he...
Chronicles of Never Jewelry
Australian based Chronicles Of Never (a reference to Neverland) works loosely with the concept of space within space for their imaginative line of jewelry. Heavily influenced by architecture and with a fondness for industrial materials, the jewelry range includes forms that are very solid and angular. While the masculine objects are well suited for men, these objects can also provide an...
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs...
With intense color and seemingly banal subject matter, the Whitney’s current restrospective on the work of William Eggleston serves as a foil to the Southern imagery depicted in HMA’s Road to Freedom collection.
Working in the Mississippi Delta, Eggleston was somewhat a pioneer in the realm of color photography. Thirty years ago photographs carried artistic merit if they were black...
Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights...
Somewhat surprisingly, this 2008 summer show at the Altanta High Museum of Art was a first of its kind for any major museum: a collection showcasing the photographic history of the civil rights movement. Behind the pictures are stories of smashed equipment and journalists beaten, of activists drawn south by images, of amateurs who picked up cameras for the first time.
If you missed the exhibit,...
32 Via dei Birrai
Everyone knows that the worst part about a party is cleaning up. Waking up to a household that’s littered with PBR and Bud Light cans is enough to give anyone a headache. Thankfully, a recent renaissance is taking place in Italian breweries resulting in the same attention to quality and design that is found in the country’s more identifiable products such as wine and fast cars so you...
