Jan 18

New Frontier : A look at the amazing work of the Sundance Film Festival’s venue for experimental cinema and new media

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New Frontier

Amid all the hubbub of film releases and elbow-rubbing that will happen at the Sundance Film Festival this week there is a lesser-known venue with enormous potential. New Frontier is a multimedia installation space featuring cutting edge work from some of the world’s most interesting contemporary cinematic artists. Stepping…

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Jan 18

In Between: Keun Young Park’s metaphysical paper collages

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In Between

A sculptor by training, Korean-born Keun Young Park masterfully arranges shredded paper into textured self-portraits. After photographing herself in various poses, Park digitally manipulates and resizes the images, prints them, then tears them up by hand into thousands of pieces. From there she reconfigures each sliver of the wreckage…

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Jan 18

CH Winter 2013 Playlist: Heat it up indoors with 13 tunes sure to spice up the new year

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CH Winter 2013 Playlist

The magic of the holiday season may be behind us, but as winter grows colder things are certainly warming up inside. Whether you’re getting sweaty at a secret dance party in a yurt or raising the temperature under the covers, our CH Winter 2013 Playlist inspires all the right…

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Jan 17

LIFE: Artist Sage Vaughn explores the harmonic disparity between man and nature

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LIFE

In a new exhibition at LA’s Scion AV Installation space, artist Sage Vaughn questions the nature of human existence with contemplative works that juxtapose attractive and repulsive imagery. Appropriately titled, “LIFE” spans a bevy of media and allegorical iconography that showcase Vaughn’s interest in creating “a body of work…

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Jan 17

Las Vegas Neon Museum: Resurrecting the iconic lights of Sin City

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Las Vegas Neon Museum

By Corey Lewis A wide lens on Las Vegas today shows a city that, while taken over in recent decades by a sterile, mega-mall homogeny along its new main drag, is still no stranger to design, studded with architectural monuments from Rafael Viñoly and Daniel Libeskind (and a tombstone by…

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Jan 14

Virtual Reality: Haroshi returns with playfully macabre skateboard sculptures

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Virtual Reality

Arranged horizontally or in a dizzying cubistic patchwork, Haroshi’s laminated skateboard sculptures have rightfully earned the self-taught artist plenty of hype across both the art and skate communities. His latest exhibition, “Virtual Reality,” magnifies his relentless penchant for cross-pollinating passions with a new crop of colorful works which fully…

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Jan 11

Cool Hunting Video Presents: Pins and Needles: Find your way to LA’s most interesting pinball arcade in our latest video

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Cool Hunting Video Presents: Pins and Needles

In a large warehouse in Los Angeles, behind a massive rolling metal door, there is a room full of awesome pinball machines. A labor of love, Pins and Needles is a public arcade filled with privately owned pinball machines made available for everyone to enjoy by founder Molly Atkinson….

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Jan 11

Weiwei-isms: Intelligent ruminations from China’s most notorious radical artist

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Weiwei-isms

In his fight for freedom of expression, Ai Weiwei’s words are his ammunition. And fortunately, the controversial Chinese artist wields intellectual commentary with the voracity of a machine gun. For those who share his sentiments about the synonymity of art and activism, the new book “Weiwei-isms” is like having…

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Jan 11

Essays on Reality: London-based Swiss director Greg Barth premieres his latest work

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Essays on Reality

There’s a good chance you have come across Greg Barth’s work recently. In the past two years, the Swiss multi-disciplinary art and video director has gotten noticed among enlightened circles, as well as the general public, for his clearly identifiable aesthetic combined with audacious choices of content. After graduating…

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Jan 09

Studio Visit: Shantell Martin: Wide awake within the illustrated walls of an English artist’s Brooklyn abode

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Studio Visit: Shantell Martin

“All it cost me were pens and time,” says Shantell Martin of her Brooklyn home and studio. From the baseboards to the ceiling, the space crawls with a hand-drawn mural of Martin’s own design. The artist explains that she rents from a couple who support Martin’s scribbling habit so…

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