Pascal Lievre

Parisian artist Pascal Lievre loves glitter. At least as a medium in his latest project called GLITTERECTION includings works such as BAD ROMANCE, ‘Il Diabolo Gaga’ and ‘Il Angelo Gaga’. Livre  is infamous for his multi-dimensional, avant-garde photography and this time it is no different (check out past artwork in the gallery below). Pascal Lièvre is a dynamic artist with projects in various

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Michael Kampe

I am trying hard to understand fashion. Sometimes, I succeed. And when I find out I like the same fashion projects Viktor & Rolf and Diesel’s Ronzo Rosso like – it makes me feel  one step closer to those so called fashion bloggers from Berlin. The designers above have been impressed by Michael Kampe’s 3D work with fabrics and denim treatments

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Pattern and Degradation

Rob Pruitt has worked for 2 years and the result is for just one more day to be seen on 8200 square feet (760 square metres sounds too little) at Gavin Brown’s enterprise and Maccarone NYC. His exhibition Pattern and Degradation takes inspiration from the Amish tradition of Rumspringa, a Pennsylvania German term that directly translates to “running around.” During the Rumspringa, Amish adolescents

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BODY LANGUAGE by NICK KNIGHT

Nick Knight doesn’t really need a big introduction. If you are not a regular reader of Vogue (latest Lady Gaga photo shoots), W Magazine, Dazed & Confused and earlier i-D, you may know him from the ad campaigns for Christian Dior, Alexander McQueen, Calvin Klein, Levi Strauss, Yohji Yamamoto and Yves Saint Laurent. As a fashion photographer, Nick Knight has consistently

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STREEPLE

Slava Mogutin is in town. OK, almost. He is here as part of the Streeple show that opened last Friday in Berlin’s Kunstraum Richard Sorge. The opening was amazing and featured also artists J.Jackie Baier, Alex Da Corte, Ari Versluis & Ellie Uyttenbroek / Exactitudes, Versus Collective (Gihan Tubbeh, Musuk Nolte, Renzo Giraldo). “When you think we’re lost, we’re exploring,

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THE NEW YORK ART LEAGUE vol.5: SCOOTER LAFORGE

40, cleans houses and washes dishes in diners to get by media: painting, clothing Scooter wanted to become a dancer or a fashion designer. Those were his childhood dreams which got very quickly shut down by his parents. They were very strict and wanted him to be nothing else but a book keeper: “My dad wanted me to go into

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THE NEW YORK ART LEAGUE vol.4: GIO BLACK PETER

31, wasn’t asked if he wanted to live in the U.S, he was brought there media: drawing, painting, music, performance Gio Black Peter (Giovani Paolo Andrade Guevara) was born in Guatemala and emigrated illegally to the United States with his family at the age of five. The name Black Peter is taken from the folkloric elf who delivers “bad” presents

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THE NEW YORK ART LEAGUE vol.3: GERRY VISCO

helps save the world and improve all of our lives media: photography, text, performance If you ask Gerry what she’s doing, you better get ready for a pretty long answer. A writer, performer, photographer, fashionista, and radio show host on WKCR FM, she regularly covers parties, art events, and the arts for New York Press in a weekly column and

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THE NEW YORK ART LEAGUE vol.2: BRIAN KENNY

27, wants to have a third eye, an extra arm and an extra pineal gland media: multimedia, focus: illustration and music Brian Kenny was born 1982 in Heidelburg, Germany, on an American military base. While growing up he traveled extensively throughout the US with his Army family. As a teenager, Brian was a competitive gymnast. After high school, he went

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Tim Hetherington: INFIDEL

Tim Hetherington was born in Liverpool, UK. He studied literature at Oxford University and later returned to college to study photojournalism. He is based in New York and is a contributing photographer for Vanity Fair magazine. His interest lies in creating diverse forms of visual communication and his work has ranged from digital projections at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, to fly-poster exhibitions

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RAQUEL NAVE

Raquel Nave is a ruthless photographer and explorer of American fuck-ups. Her artwork contains polaroids of landscapes, still lifes, nudes, Nave, her family, and her companions. The snapshots represent the identity exploration of a young woman and the journey of an artist working in her style and medium. Stances and expressions in Nave’s photographs reveal her unique personal narratives. Used alternately, they suggest the subsuming

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THE NEW YORK ART LEAGUE vol. 1: SLAVA MOGUTIN

36, doesn’t pay much attention to the art scene and art politics media: multimedia, text When he first got in New York 15 years ago, Slava hardly knew anyone and could hardly speak English. He had to start his life and career from the ground zero and reinvent himself both personally and artistically. As he describes it: “It was a

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