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Studio DRIFT: FLYLIGHT Moscow

Netherlands based design team, studio DRIFT unveils FLYLIGHT, its latest installation by Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta.

FLYLIGHT is an interactive light installation composed of a minimum of 180 glass tubes. The glass tubes that light up and respond to the viewer are inspired by the behavior of a flock of birds and Continue Reading

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Pirelli: The 2012 Pirelli Calendar by Mario Sorrenti with Kate Moss, Milla Jovovich, Lara Stone…

The 2012 Pirelli Calendar was previewed Tuesday by the world media, international guests and collectors at “The Armory”, the 19th century New York City military landmark.

The 39th issue of ‘The CalTM’ is the work of Mario Sorrenti, the first Italian photographer in the history of a calendar that has become a cult. Neapolitan by birth and New Yorker by adoption, Sorrenti chose the island of Corsica and its rugged landscape to create Continue Reading

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Art Basel Miami Beach: Nigel Barker’s Documentary Screening

Last night, Art Basel was treated to a premiere screening event of Dreams Art Not Forgotten, a documentary film about a day in the life of an inspiring community in the heart of the slums in post-earthquake, Bel Air, Haiti. Directed and produced by Nigel Barker and brought to you by Executive Producers Pamella and Dan DeVos. Co-produced by Unik Ernest.

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Art Basel Miami Beach: Bing “Travelers” Exhibition

As Art Basel Miami was coming to a close, Bing hosted a party to celebrate actress Shenae Grimes’ photo exhibit “Travelers.” The event marked the first time the “90210” star shared and sold her photos, which feature Venice Beach street performers she Continue Reading

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Art Basel Exclusive: Marina Abramović the Artist is Present

World renowned performance artist, Marina Abramović along with director Matthew Akers and producers Jeff Dupre and Maro Chermayeff premiered the highly anticipated documentary film Marina Abramović The Artist is Present.

The special screening held at SoHo Beach House was co-hosted by Continue Reading

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A Shaded View of Fashion Film 2012

A Shaded View on Fashion Film (ASVOFF) is an event that gathers together big personalities from fashion, art and cinema. During four days, ASVOFF Barcelona plays host to the best short films, in which the new creative tendencies in fashion will be core. For the last 4 years, the festival has been based at Centre Pompidou in Paris, followed by satellite screenings in the cultural capitals of New York, Milan and Tokyo. Now ASVOFF lands in Barcelona, a city host chosen from amongst a number of other candidates. ASVOFF will be held at Caixa Fourm Barcelona from January 24-27 2012. Check out the video of some featured short films here : <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/26422596">http://www.vimeo.com/26422596</a>

This will be a one of a kind competition meant to showcase the latest and greatest talents in the fashion community. ASVOFF is excited to showcase the young talent in the fashion industry and you can be a part of it. Visit the website for more information on how you can compete and/or watch the competitors.

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Gallery Diet Presents XYZ

Gallery Diet is proud to present the publication, XYZ, a ten year retrospective publication on the work of Bhakti Baxter. The progression of Bhakti’s work covering ten years is explored through a series of collages and montages. XYZ includes an introductory text by Hugh Stockton, an interview with Geir Heraldseth, and an essay by Gean Moreno. The book will be released on November 4, 2011. A copy of XYZ can be obtained by contacting Gallery Diet at info@gallerydiet.com.

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Banksy – Myths and Legends

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BANKSY – Myths and Legends, the perfect holiday gift book celebrating the art and tall tales surrounding the iconic street artist Banksy.
No single living artist has created as many myths, rumors and legends as Banksy. In his home town of Bristol almost everyone seems to have a Banksy story. Many of the tales in this book are from Bristol and some are from further afield. What they share is that they are all told with the wide-eyed wonder, which Banksy inspires. Compiled between 2009 and 2011, some of these stories are quite old and have been told so many times they have become the stuff of legend, while others are more questionable and best described as myths. Some are laugh out loud bollocks and some are simply gossip. You be the judge. These stories illustrate the incredible audacity, originality and sheer bloody mindedness of Banksy, who obviously will be best remembered for his art and exposing the hypocrisy and idiocy of our modern lives. The myths will be viewed as a distraction to some or part of the appeal for others. One thing is certain, the art and the myths are both larger than life and stick two fingers up at conformity. This book is a celebration of that anarchic, rebellious spirit. It’s listed at www.amazon.com for a mere $9.95, a great deal on a book images by a one of a kind artist.

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Origami Exploration Exhibition

The Center Gallery at Fordham University is pleased to announce “ORIGAMI EXPLORATION”, works by Yoshihara McKee Architects.

Origami is synonymous with the Japanese culture. However this exhibition is strays from the traditional objects of origami. Instead of animals and insects, the exhibition focuses strictly on mathematical concepts and the beauty within them.

Origami Exploration

The Center Gallery at Fordham University

September 15 – October 20, 2011

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KOEN VAN DEN BROEK: INSOMNIA AND THE GREENHOUSE

In a series of breakthrough exhibitions over the past decade, van den Broek has established a reputation as a major force in Antwerp and as one of the leading painters of his generation in Europe. Van den Broek’s work transforms seemingly familiar images into compelling contemplations of surface, line, and technique.

His paintings depict shadows, cracks, fragments of architecture and generic landscapes, but reverberate with presence, traces of human encounters, suspense and imminence. Though devoid of people or explicit narrative, he suggests experience by both layering and disconnecting colors, marks, perspectives and planes. It is this range of perceptual possibilities and spatial opportunities that is the primary subject of his work.

Van den Broek takes road trips and frames ideas in on-going photographic diaries. Impressions of journeys are remembered, re-imagined and re-experienced. Contours are lost and edges are obscured. Line and form correlate only vaguely to reality and the world in the painting corresponds not to any place of origin but to the artist’s vision.

Insomnia and the Greenhouse presents the full range of van den Broek’s oeuvre. The Insomnia works, executed in Antwerp, are monumental, their grand-scale (8 1/2 x 13 feet) and various perspectives are reminiscent of film takes, or camera positions. In “No Service,” an enormous mountain looms within a seemingly shifting foreground and distance and the viewer has to continuously re-adjust focus between the virtuosity of painted brushwork and the dominance of an over-arching image.

The Greenhouse works, including Star Island #1 (5 x 3 feet) are more intimate works, nuanced paintings, executed during the artist’s residence in Williamsburg, New York. Van den Broek (b.1973) lives and works in Schilde, Belgium. He has a Bachelor in Engineer Architecture, and studied at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, the Academy of Visual Arts St. Joost, Breda, and the Higher Institute of Fine Arts Flanders, Antwerp. He is currently an instructor at the MAD faculty in Belgium.

The artist’s work is in significant private collections as well as the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Astrup Fearnley Museet fur Modern Kunst, Oslo; Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle; Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul. Van den Broek is currently in two museum exhibitions in Antwerp, at the MAS and at the MHKA. In 2008, van den Broek collaborated with John Baldessari on “This an Example of That,” an exhibition at the Bonnefanten museum, Maastricht. In 2009, he was the subject of an extensive retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK) at which point, “Crack,” a monograph on his work, was published.