Brian Donnelly’s creatures exist in a perpetual state of encroachment and human-animal cross-breeding. And somehow, some of them arouse me. Brian Donnelly is a Canadian born painter working in Toronto. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design’s painting program in 2003, Brian has actively been questioning the role of the figure in contemporary painting for the last
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Because appearance is everything, you should buy S. T VALENTIN. At least that’s what the slogan of the sophisticated store in Aarhus, Denmark. In the small city with almost 250 thousand citizens, there seem to be a lot of picky gentleman with fine taste, since the shop is calling out to a very special breed of clientele. S. T VALENTIN is
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Wonwei and Shanghai-based design studio Super Nature Design collaborated on an interactive art installation for the 2011 International Science and Art Exhibition in Shanghai. The installation, named PRISMA 1666, focuses on the light refraction properties of a prism, allowing the user to experience these properties by interacting with various colors, angles, and shapes being projected onto a group of prisms. The installation
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Christian Straub is back and this time he brings many things into motion, however on a metaphysical level. Things talk relationships. This is the premise for THE GAME OF THINGS, Cristian Straub’s latest fashion short film for German fashion label Ethel Vaughn. A woman is haunted by her past, by things and moments she once shared with someone. As the film unfolds we get
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Maurizio Cattelan – one of the most influential art pranksters and agent provocateurs today – has turned the Guggenheim’s rotunda into a floating labyrinth with his hanging exhibition featuring effigies, surrogates and taxidermy animals. Nancy Spector, the chief curator of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, worked with Cattelan in putting the show All together. She is reassuring that all animals in the
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This is a little disturbing. No, this is big time disturbing. I hope Josh Keyes doesn’t have the crazy ability of seeing the future and painting it (Heroes reference, anyone?) As a kid I always collected different types of encyclopedia but always loved and preferred those with pictures in them in stead of those with photographic images. Somehow it gave
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You can put many labels on AA Bronson: art veteran, shaman, General Idea’s survivor, gay role model. But in fact I am not really interested in all the cliches spinning around his persona. Of course, this doesn’t mean I won’t tell you about General Idea or mention that AA is all about rituals – everything from ceremonial magic, witches covens, group
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Nicola Formichetti is a visionary and a multi-talent: Dazed’s former creative director, Lady Gaga’s stylist, designer for Mügler and Vogue Hommes Japan inspiration. He is constantly pushing the boundaries of fashion and reaching new frontiers. Nowhere else is that as obvious as in the documentary below, screened exclusively on Dazed Digital, where we get to follow Formichetti through the process of
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Well guess what – models can’t dance! And the next video by Steven Meisel is the latest proof for that. However, it’s a pretty amazing invitation to L’Arc’s Halloween party. The video features a remix of bad music and amazing fashion coming from Lanvin’s 2011 fall campaign. Save the date:
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Beards are definitely in this winter more than ever. All major fashion labels included them as a must-have accessory for their upcoming summer 2012 collections. However, we already know that beard is not everyone’s cup of facial hair and growing some patches of hair on your face would rather make you look ridiculous than cute and trendy. However, I’m leaving the beard trash
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on the brink is the second solo exhibition with the gallery by the collaborative team Tim Berg & Rebekah Myers. Tim has graduated MA of Fine Arts at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, New York and Rebekah got her degree in Graphic Design at California College of the Arts San Francisco, California. Continuing with their exploration of ideas of
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Berlin Art Journal is the new-born offspring of the Berlin based magazine sugarhigh. I met one of the editors of BAJ (yes, it’s a cool online mag without a rubbish hierarchy), Alonso Dominguez and had a chat about the scene in Berlin and the future of writing about art. What is Berlin Art Journal? berlin art journal is a magazine
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