Sundance 2014: SPACE and 1MSQFT: Curator Ken Miller leads the art pack in Park City, Utah

Sundance 2014: SPACE and 1MSQFT


Amid the clattering bustle of a small resort town packed street-to-screen with the film industry, two art galleries are providing a different option for the artistic influx that temporarily inhabits Park City, Utah. This year at Sundance, pop-ups “SPACE” and “recordOutboundLink(this,…

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Studio Visit: Aliki Kirmitsi: The London-based set designer on her process, inspiration and letting ideas have lives of their own

 Studio Visit: Aliki Kirmitsi


There is a tangibly refined and almost childlike simplicity about Cyprus-born, London-based set designer Aliki Kirmitsi’s images. Her goal—when approaching any project—is to, “create a space that is balanced and carries an element of surprise, weaving…

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Denis Carrier for GoldCoast Skateboards : The French illustrator creates a cheeky graphic for the California-based board maker

Denis Carrier for GoldCoast Skateboards


Split between Utah and California, GoldCoast Skateboards makes everything one needs to enjoy life on four urethane wheels. With design-minded graphics and a focus on having fun, the brand connects…

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Interview: Mark Fox: Our discussion with the NYC via Ohio artist on the influence of puppets, Sunday Mass and a fateful tornado in his acclaimed work

Interview: Mark Fox


Manipulation is something everybody experiences every day—good or bad, conscious or unconscious. For NYC-based artist Mark Fox, manipulation has permeated his entire body of work and is a theme he continues to explore in his latest…

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Call Sign: Pegasus: A short documentary on Chris Goldmann, Nelson Mandela’s chopper pilot turned knife-maker, by Brian Fortune

Call Sign: Pegasus


In an impassioned and informative short documentary by director Brian Fortune, viewers are given a glimpse into one man’s extraordinary life. Chris Goldmann, the film’s subject, is the…

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The Postcard is a Public Work of Art: Mailable works of art by 60 Britain-based artists on show in London

The Postcard is a Public Work of Art


No matter where you go in the world, you will, no doubt, have the opportunity to pick up a postcard to commemorate the place and time. Taking the novel piece of rectangle card and transforming it into a canvas with near infinite potential,…

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Stan Douglas: Luanda-Kinshasa: The Vancouver-based artist’s 12th solo show at NYC ‘s David Zwirner gallery melds fiction and documentary through a six-hour film set

Stan Douglas: Luanda-Kinshasa


by Charlotte Anderson The recording studio on East 30th Street in Manhattan was once holy ground. Carved out of the abandoned remains of an old Armenian Church, it was a place where musicians shared in a mutual, perhaps now lost, struggle—to record that…

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C#CKFIGHT: A beautifully brutal short film by Miami filmmaker Julian Yuri Rodriguez

C#CKFIGHT


Screening at this year’s prestigious Slamdance Film Festival (in the Anarchy Shorts category), “C#CKFIGHT” is a nine-minute long mind-bending and voyeuristic exploration of a sweat-soaked back-room brawl. Born…

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House of La Cruz: A fine arts retailer and exclusive online gallery of carefully selected pieces and performances

House of La Cruz


LA-based fine arts photographer and filmmaker Alex La Cruz found the perfect way to sell his mesmerizing, oftentimes eerie, large-format architectural and landscape photographs: On a sharply curated website, among other artists he respects. In founding…

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Cunningham: The Passion, The Cars, The Legacy: An expansive book outlining the career and contribution of the humble and passionate racing pioneer

Cunningham: The Passion, The Cars, The Legacy


Briggs Cunningham is the most important American racer and sportsman you have never heard of. Not only is he responsible for racing stripes on cars, but he also owned the first Ferrari (166SC) ever raced and…

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