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Interdisciplinary processes and theory from sociology, systems analysis, cybernetics, semiotics and philosophy.

Legendary Sang Froid

This is the first large performance piece the internationally acclaimed artists have presented in New York City

Magnum Opus!

Not Vital has worked with Venetian glass blowers in Murano, Tuareg silversmith tribesmen in Niger, papermakers in Bhutan.

Not Vital (which is a moniker I'd give my left arm for) excels in moving material, – metal, plaster, fiberglass, tea, coal, animal remains, melted pink Camay soap –from their base reality towards a kind of sublime abstraction.

Tuaregs and their camel-caravans still appear unexpectedly on the horizon before melting into the desert again.

Something lovely happened in those last few days in Paris.

Samples of Rick Owens' mysterious new fragrance via someslashthings.com

No I haven't smelled it. That doesn't even matter. Just the thought..*spasm* .

Select California bands will contribute to the installation, using a fragmentary sound system, and panoramic scores

Hedi Slimane's "Califorina Period" did more than extend his signature explorations of urban youth culture out of the European platforms of Berlin and London. It also gave his photography the merit of truly capturing, in an unprecedented way, the ideal of youth in that California context . Slimane achieved this in a way no other photographer of this generation did . Quality of light met a defined quality of life and, as such , mutual myths (of both Slimane and of California's youth) were perpetrated. Clips from the press release post jump

Suits' own engagement with the friends and lovers she photographs gives the exhibition it's true narrative.

Sunny Suits' Regular Lovers is like a film fractured into a miliion stills .

Théodore Fivel has always created objects, practiced painting, installation, assemblage, music, film — the image in all its form

One of my favorite aspects of PFW is the chance to visit the Palais de Tokyo just to get a fix on a contemporary ideal of French cultural production.

“The alchemy of photography lies in taking unimportant objects or events and surpassing their appearance.”

‘Beauty in women inhabits a force field charged with particles of light,’ he said. ‘It is almost as if the light is the subject, and the woman the source of the light.’

Ralph Gibson.