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Recently, some folks at the Chicago Tribune headed down to the basement and found a bunch of glass-plate negatives from the 1920s and 30s. Some of these glorious old photographs were of famed mobster Al Capone during his 1931 trial for tax evasion. At one time a populist hero, Al brought booze to the people when uptight sycophants thought it best to keep everyone sober and agitated. Now his legend lives on in black and white.
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Strawberry Fields and Astral People have joined forces to bring the best that Strawberry Fields has to offer to Sydney. Tycho, Baths, Synkro and Prefuse73 will all perform this Saturday at Sydney’s Metro Theatre in what is sure to be one hell of a party. If you aren’t trembling with excitement already, Astral People DJ’s [...]
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OutsideIn, a boutique electronic music festival, was held at Sydney’s Factory Theatre last week. The inaugural event featured the likes of Oliver Tank, HTRK, FISHING, Flume and Jesse Boykins III in what was a day of smoke, lasers and a lot of bass. As I walked through the gates into the courtyard, the bass was [...]
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Recently in Singapore, a warehouse fire resulted in barrels of detergent concentrate getting damaged. Which in turn caused foam clouds to form. Some of the billowing foam started hitting the streets, floating about in the air, carried by the wind. We’re having fun looking at the pictures of the foam-ified streets that’ve turned up on Twitter.
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Bloemencorso is the annual parade of flowers in Zundert, the Netherlands. Each giant float is sculpted from thousands of flowers such as dahlias. You can see a little bit of everything at Bloemencorso, including intricate floats resemble exotic animals, puppets, and graffiti. You can see this stunning event for yourself on September 1 and 2, 2013.
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It’s Movember! Something that’s close to my heart and nose is my moustache and the Movember movement. Purveyors of knowledge and fine moustaches means that both knowledge is power and moustaches are king in my world. Yes and creepy dudes. Being male is a matter of birth, being a man is a matter of age, and being a gentleman is a matter of choice. Honour your father and his moustache because you’re gonna be a man my son. Sign up here to help us fight the good fight. And welcome to the family.
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Jackie Hoysted is an Irish-born artist who has been living in the US for fifteen years and working in a number of different media, including encaustic and ceramics. Over the past year, she has concentrated on painting, with stunning results. Her show in early 2012 at Washington, DC’s Gallery 555, called Girls – Nice Doesn’t Cut It, introduced art lovers to a tough bunch of young women. The show of large-scale portraits depicted determined-looking, serious women, many named after legendary heroines. As Hoysted told the Huffington Post: ‘I feel that girls are brought up to be nice and liked and that holds them back from being the most successful people they can be’.
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This is an explosive multi-disciplinary performance piece about the life of Andy Warhol. Using cabaret, documentary, fashion, and movement pieces, the show at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles explores a narrative of America and its relationship to fame and celebrity from post-World War II, 1960s and 70s gay disco culture, to the celebrity-soaked world of the 1980s. Even better: it’s all scored with music from the Velvet Underground, 1970s disco, and Polish-Czechoslovakian folk music.
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Mobilia Gallery in Cambridge, MA, invited dozens of artists to rethink a humble household item: the teapot. While some produced lovely variations in traditional ceramics, quite a few thought way outside the, uh, pot. Louise Hill’s Upsidedownsized is a topsy-turvy brick house complete with furniture, lights and a tire swing. Wesley Fleming’s Mantis Tea Time captures some graceful insects in glass. Gerard Ferrari created a highly untraditional Robotic Bug with Claws, while Liz Alpert-Fay went more conceptual with a wire-mesh teapot complete with embroidered spill. The exhibit continues until November 15.
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La Fiesta de Santa Marta de Ribarteme, or the Festival of Near Death Experiences, makes an absolute mockery of La Tomatina and Running with the Bulls on the scale of crazy experiences and culture. Just like the name suggests, the event recognises individuals that came freakishly close to kicking the bucket during the year that’s gone by.
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For one month during Europe’s autumn, Italy’s Fame Festival turns into a street art playground. Above and underground, artists bury their work in tunnels and scale images across decaying walls, producing some of the world’s largest murals and most exclusive exhibitions. (Hosting artists such as Cyop & Kaf, Ericailcane, Internisi Kazki and Vhils: pictured).
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Murray Moss, a champion of design amidst the celebrity of art, lamented that ‘Compared to art, it’s cheap … at least most of it. And it’s punished because it does more’. See everything he does with design and more in Phillips de Pury’s showcase in New York this month.
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The Sunday Art Fair, a favorite of London’s Art Week, has just completed its third annual and much lauded housing of contemporary art’s newest initiatives. The gallery-run endeavor hosts some of the art market’s brightest young talents and emergent galleries, and is considered an insight into the next generation of art commerce.
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Every two years, the romantic city of Venice transforms with a wave of creative types wearing black for the Architectural Biennale. This year’s event, which runs until November 25, is directed by the iconic British architect, David Chipperfield, and features National Pavilions exhibiting the best works from a variety of countries, as well as from selected universities and individual architectural practices.
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The European summer entails many things, but undoubtedly the most colourful is a continent-wide festival season for fine contemporary NUART. With just under a week to go and for those of us who just fall short of reaching that corner of the world, NUART’s blog is keeping us updated with images from this year’s artists, including Aakash Nihalani, Saber, Eine, Mobstr +.
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