The Faceless LED Watch designed by Japanese designer Hironao Tsuboi is one of the most interesting timepieces I've seen in a long time. I'm ready for this product to be on the market and for me to get one from Japan. -John Sebelius
It is refreshing when someone can recognize they are a trainwreck and have fun with it. Bravo. -John Sebelius
Finding a choice piece of fine art to hang above the textured mantle or underneath a drop-hung French chandelier is no easy task. Yet Suzan Fellman, the Los Angels designer, seems to have captured a spotless-mind and filled it with the delicate rejuvenation of hallowed antlers.
Once a truck grill ornament or trophy of the big kill, Fellman honors these fossil-like treasures with Swarovski crystals or hipster colors found in her hand made collection. Capturing to the eye and coveted by art this connoisseur, these items punctuate a dull space yearning for a statement. –Katy Ibsen
To Lust: Suzan Fellman
To Lust: Vivre
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KALUP LINZY
Keys to Our Heart
Date: 2008
Description: Digital
video on DVD, black & white, sound
Duration: 24
minutes and 18 seconds
Caption Info: Courtesy of the artist and of Taxter &
Spengemann, New York
Dates:
23 April – 2 May 2009
Artists: Shaun El C. Leonardo, Kalup Linzy, Rashaad Newsome, and Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz
Locations:
SALVAGE VANGUARD THEATER: 2803 Manor Rd, Austin, TX
MASS GALLERY: 916 Springdale Rd, Austin, TX
While there are several common threads that run through this exhibition, Localismo asks provocative questions: What does it mean to capture the live event? What are the implications? How do we document the totality of the live performance? How can one capture the movement, narrative, language of life and translate this into two-dimensional objects, such as film and video?
Each artist in Localismo wrestles
with this complex task in unique ways, often challenging classical ideas of
theatrical presentation by fragmenting
the live experience into discrete performative elements.
What makes these four artists compelling vis-a-vis the exhibition title is the artists' interest in developing relationships with specific cultural localities such as New Orleans in Linzy's work, the Bronx barrio in Ortiz', the Latin machismo in Leonardo's and the richness of casting local talent in Newsome's. There is also a spirit of collaboration among several of the artists: Both Wanda and Shaun have been featured in several of Kalup's video's. Recently Kalup and Rashaad performed a double bill at The Kitchen in New York City this year. This collaboration functions at the level of the intimately social rather than the artificially curatorial in which artists are grouped together around abstract themes. It's a touchy subject I think. It's not a popular practice to group artists together based on a forced idea of common social or cultural identity. However in this case the grouping runs deeper. -Wayne Northcross
To Lust: www.fuseboxfestival.com
To Lust: www.kaluplinzy.net/
To Lust: www.taxterandspengemann.com/
To Lust: www.rashaadnewsome.com/
To Lust: www.elcleonardo.com/
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Entertainer of the day, or we should say night. Lady Gaga photographed last night at the White Party Palm Springs. -Michael Davis
