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We’re bringing you exclusive content from Austin and bringing a little bit of the city to you courtesy of MasterCard PayPass®. You’re familiar with the Cool Hunting motto “Always More”, so it’s no surprise that one party isn’t enough. That’s why we’re throwing five parties. At the same time. This Friday night, 16 March 2012, you can join us in NYC, LA, DC, SF and Chicago to see a live stream of the Sub Pop SXSW Showcase featuring Niki & the Dove, Spoek Mathambo and THEESatisfaction.

The events feature outstanding DJs like Boy Wonder and Jon Huang in Chicago, Chances With Wolves in NYC, Chris Holmes + Brie Larson + Elijah Wood + Turquoise Wisdom in LA, Stretch Armstrong in D.C. and Claude VonStroke in San Francisco. Each will have an open bar and our special South by Southwest cocktail created by celebrated mixologist Jim Meehan, along with food from some of the country’s best food trucks—all for free. You can RSVP via the city links above, just make sure that you bring your MasterCard, or a friend who has one.

For those of you who can’t make it to one of the parties you can watch the stream live on the Tap Into SXSW section of Cool Hunting. In addition to the bands mentioned, Debo Band and Gashcat will also be streamed lived starting at 9pm CDT.

We’ll be adding new content daily to the Tap Into SXSW section of Cool Hunting, so check back often for exclusive interviews, videos and more.

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Installation view of Michael Riedel booth at the Armory Show. (Courtesy David Zwirner, NY)

Imbibe with care at the Armory Show, which opened today on Piers 92 and 94 in Manhattan, because directly opposite the Pommery champagne bar is the unusually spacious booth of New York’s David Zwirner gallery. Fairgoers who attempt to investigate its southwestern portion, bathed in bold color, will discover a perfectly aligned sheet of wallpaper that reproduces the trio of panels that hang on the neighboring wall. This creative paradox is the work of Frankfurt-based artist Michael Riedel, whose site-specific installation is both dazzling and refreshing—and collectors agreed: the booth sold out within 30 minutes of yesterday’s VIP preview.

“David asked me to do something similar to one of the works that we showed at Art Cologne a few years ago, where I doubled the neighboring booth with wallpaper,” Riedel told us. “But I knew the environment would be different here, with fewer solo presentations and less open space, so I decided not to use the neighbor’s booth but to reflect my own work instead.” That work is three large-scale panels silkscreened with posters in repetitive patterns of text and shapes harvested from his past projects. “This is also the first time I’m doing a wallpaper that’s not just black and white,” he added. In other words, color—the selection of which Riedel insisted was random but happened to be purple, at least until last night’s gala opening, when it was overlaid with a jazzy turquoise version.

Post-Armory, Riedel will be gearing up for a solo show at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt. The exhibition, opening June 15, will be his first retrospective. “Usually when I show it’s very pure, the presentation of one group of work, but this will be combining the newer work and the older work,” he said. “It’s a new situation for me, but I look forward to it.” Given the frequent appearances of posters, logos, and painstakingly arranged morsels of text in his work (his 2011 exhibition at Zwirner was, after all, entitled with the pangrammatic chesnut “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”), we couldn’t resist asking him about his relationship to the design world. “A lot of graphic designers like my work a lot,” he said. “But I’m very naïve in graphic design, so maybe that’s why they like it.”

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Mayor Michael Bloomberg addresses members of the press at the 24th annual Art Show as artist Sarah Sze looks on. (Photo: UnBeige)

It’s Armory Arts Week in New York, with a dozen art fairs opening today and tomorrow throughout the city. According to the number crunchers at the office of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, all the art action—during what is typically a slow time for tourism—will draw approximately 80,000 visitors and generate $55 million in economic activity. Looming largest on the ever-growing fair landscape are, of course, the Armory Show, which opens to the public tomorrow over on Piers 92 and 94, and the the Art Dealers Association of America’s Art Show, which kicked off yesterday at the Park Avenue Armory with a gala preview. Confused yet? Not to worry, Bloomberg has a handy mnemonic device that will help you keep your Armories straight. “Get this—write it down! The Art Show hangs in the Armory on Park, and the Armory Show is parked in a hangar on the river,” he said gleefully at a press conference held yesterday. “You have to work very hard to get that right, but we did it.” Bloomberg credited his speechwriter with the wordsmithing. “I’m so proud of this,” he added later, before repeating the catchy sentence. The mayor addressed members of the press standing before the booth of Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, which is featuring the intricate assemblages of New York-based Sarah Sze. Bloomberg invited Sze, whose work is also currently on view at Asia Society, to join him at the podium. “Sarah is going to exhibit at the Venice Biennale next year. Anybody wanna go?” he asked the crowd. “Yeah, me too.”

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New York City’s Storefront for Art and Architecture is pleased to present “DOUBLE [copies, fakes and replicas],” a Manifesto Series event on the occasion of the arrival and subsequent departure of Serkan Özkaya‘s David (inspired by Michelangelo in downtown Manhattan. The Turkish conceptual artist’s piece, a golden rendition of the iconic sculpture that is (as the title of event suggests) twice the size of Michelangelo’s masterpiece, is based on Stanford University professor Marc Levoy’s computer model. He has stated that, “I wanted to use the potential of the 3D model to recreate the most precious man-made object; one which I had never seen for myself.”

The name of the event also alludes to the fact that the sculpture is one of two copies of Özkaya’s original piece from 2005, created for the 9th International Istanbul Biennial, which collapsed just days before the exhibition: “the artist later restored the damaged replica and cast two additional copies, one that remains in Turkey and one of which has been recently acquired by 21c Museum in Louisville, Kentucky.”

David‘s journey from Istanbul to Louisville will include a day-long tour of New York City, where the artist currently lives and works, next Tuesday, March 6. “passing various landmarks [on a lowboy trailer], including Times Square, Museum Mile, and the High Line. The sculpture will be parked in front of the Storefront for Art and Architecture starting at 3pm.”

The event at Storefront will include a live staging of manifestos, on the topic of Double by a group of distinguished panelists consisting of artists, architects, critics, historians and theorists, discussing the effects, desires and implications in the act of doubling, replicating or copying. The presentation of the manifestos will be followed by a discussion between the presenters moderated by Özkaya. Participants include: Christopher Eamon (independent curator), Cristina Goberna (Fake industries), Alana Heiss (Clocktower Gallery), Spyros Papapetros (Princeton University), Hrag Vartanian (Hyperallergic), and Ines Weizman (Architectural Association School of Architecture London).

The original 2005 sculpture, via Wikipedia

See the full event details here.

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