Mar 25

Nowness In Residence: Rolf Sachs: The designer shows his holiday home and natural bob run in the restored Swiss Olympic Stadium

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Nowness In Residence: Rolf Sachs

For their first venture in a new series exploring the intimate side of a designer’s life, Nowness takes a look at the alpine-obsessed artist Rolf Sachs and his Olympic Stadium-turned-holiday home in St. Moritz. The dynamic London-based designer spent much of his youth in Switzerland, and since shifting his…

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Mar 22

Art Story: Pratt students have the run of Rachel Shechtman’s magazine-style boutique

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Art Story

One of the things we’ve always loved about Story—Rachel Shechtman’s ever-changing store in NYC’s Chelsea neighborhood—is that every iteration is a story in and of itself. Her latest venture is Art Story, a concept shop created with the help of Art.com and a group of eight masters students of…

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Mar 22

G. Colton Flea Market: Joel Levinson’s ’70s-era photography inspires a weekend bazaar at the LA store

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G. Colton Flea Market

About six months ago, Garrett Colton of G. Colton (formerly Standard Goods) discovered the photography of Joel D. Levinson. Colton—who fills his Los Angeles store with new designs alongside vintage objects, magazines and books—was taken with the images in Levinson’s book “Fleamarkets,” which reveals an intimate look at California’s…

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Mar 22

Interview: Bryant Ng of The Spice Table: How one chef is preserving the culture of street food in his restaurant and on a global scale

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Interview: Bryant Ng of The Spice Table

In Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo neighborhood, the red brick building that houses The Spice Table has become known as the go-to spot for the soulful flavors of Southeast Asia. With a menu highlighting some of his favorite dishes inspired by travels to Singapore and Vietnam, Chef Bryant Ng has…

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Mar 21

Walls by Miranda Donovan : Miranda Donovan builds up and breaks through walls for her third solo show

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Walls by Miranda Donovan

With her first show “Lost World of Innocence” (2008) selling out before she even arrived for the private view and several pieces from the second show, “The Home Unleashed” (2011), bought up by British art collector of the moment Frank Cohen, Miranda Donovan has established credibility as one of…

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Mar 21

Mike Mellia’s American Dream: Barbie pink and psychiatric green in an exhibition on perfection and perversity

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Mike Mellia's American Dream

“I am interested in exploring a fine art approach to advertising, and an advertising approach to fine art,” says photographer Mike Mellia. His latest show, “The American Dream,” explores the poles of perfection and perversity in society at large. A series of portraits and still lifes, the images bear…

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Mar 18

Barnaby Barford’s Seven Deadly Sins: The infamous Catholic doctrine takes a look in the mirror in the UK ceramicist’s latest show

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Barnaby Barford's Seven Deadly Sins

by Sabine Zetteler Never one to shy away from making a bold statement, ceramics artist Barnaby Barford’s new exhibition “The Seven Deadly Sins”—currently showing at London’s David Gill Gallery—addresses biblical maladies in a tellingly ironic form of ornate mirrors. In interpreting the Catholic church’s long-condemned weaknesses and literally reflecting…

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Mar 18

Endbahnhof by Kate Seabrook: A photographic trip through all 173 of Berlin’s U-Bahn stations

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Endbahnhof by Kate Seabrook

by Jason Kenny In 2011 Melbourne photographer Kate Seabrook moved back to Berlin looking for a new project. She found her muse in the 173 stations of the city’s underground subway system, the U-Bahn. Aptly titling the series “Endbahnhof”—which translates to “railhead” in German—Seabrook snapped each and every port beneath…

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Mar 16

Link About It: This Week’s Picks: Nicholas Felton’s annual report, train-hopping photography, an underground library and more in our weekly look at the web

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Link About It: This Week's Picks

1. Train Hopping Photography After recording over 50,000 miles of train hopping across the United States, photographer Mike Brodie unveiled his series “A Period of Juvenile Prosperity.” The images—taken between 2004 and 2009—offer a glimpse into the adventurous, nomadic lifestyle undertaken by thousands of American youth. 2. The Underground…

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Mar 15

In the Shadow of the Sun: A filmmaker shines a light on the profound danger of albinism in Tanzania

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In the Shadow of the Sun

by Sabine Zetteler In November 2012 we were invited to a small preview of a very special documentary entitled “In the Shadow of the Sun” at London’s infamous Frontline Club, a place dedicated to independent news. Shocking, engaging and visually stunning, the film made a lasting impression. As such we…

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