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Mustafa Maluka - “Either Love Me or Leave Me Alone”

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NEW WORK

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Mustafa is taking the world by storm with shows in New York, Zurich, Graz, & Des Moines…

His most recent solo exhibition took place at Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin (2008). Recent and upcoming group exhibitions include Flow at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2 April - 29 June 2008); World Histories at Des Moines Art Centre, Iowa (16 May - 31 August); and Common Affairs as part of the Steirischer Herbst festival in Graz, Austria (3-26 October 2008).

http://mustafamaluka.com/

UPCOMING SHOWS:

“FLOW”
Studio Museum Harlem
New York, USA
curated by Thelma Golden
April 2 to June 29
Trokon Nagbe, Olalekan B. Jeyifous, Mustafa Maluka, Nicholas Hlobo, etc.

“Youth Portraits”
Avanthay Contemporary
Zurich, Switzerland
curated by Thorsten Albertz
April 24 to May24
Qi Zhilong, Muntean/ Rosenblum, Mustafa Maluka, Aaron Romine, and Osang Gwon.

“World Histories”
Des Moines Art Center
May 16to August 31, 2008
El Anatsui (Ghana), Sonny Assu (Canada), Dario Escobar (Guatemala), Yoko Inoue (Japan),
Shi Jinsong (China), Mustafa Maluka (The Netherlands/South Africa), and Angela Strassheim (U.S.).

“Common Affairs”
steirischer herbst 2008
Graz, Austria
Landesmuseum Joanneum, Neutorgasse museum building
October 4 to 25, 2008
Ursula Biemann, Mladen Bizumic, Kristleifur Björnsson, Claus Föttinger, Mustafa Maluka, Josephine Meckseper, Lily van der Stokker

(maluka [at] gmail.com).

Angela Strassheim - Love her photography

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Minnesotan Angela Strassheim has shown she’s a photographer to watch since 2006 when she was selected as one of the artists featured in New York’s Whitney Biennial, a major contemporary art show.

check her out on MPR

Shi Jinsong - Na Zha

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In Chinese lore Na Zha is the militaristic child god of pranks renown for his penchant for violence and cunning mind and revered for ‘power dressing’ with his flaming trousers and fireball feet; he is now most widely associated as the patron saint of lotteries, gambling, and the high life, and as the star of a children’s animation series. In Shi Jinsong’s Na Zha series, this dubious character is humorously reinvented as the new face of Mothercare with a range of deadly baby products. With its executive stainless steel design the Na Zha Walker offers everything a little tot needs for a future in negotiating a global economy: an early appreciation for the aesthetics of industry, razor sharp ‘bargaining’ skills, multi-functional switch-blade gadgetry, and it’s narrow enough to race through any doorway.

SANTOGOLD/DIPLO MIXTAPE

Some perfect summertime flava now with the Diplo/Santogold ‘Top Ranking Mixtape’ that’s been put out by Mad Decent. Thirty five jams in all including three new Santogold tracks, and some exclusive blends and mixes of her stuff from Diplo, XXXchange, Mumdance, Switch, and Radioclit. Seventy five minutes of goodness. After the jump - D/L: TOP RANKING MIXTAPE

via: getweird

NME Review

01. “Dub Selection Intro”
02. Three 6 Mafia: “Late Night” (Unstoppable Mix)
03. Santogold: “Shuv It” (Disco D Blend) [exclusive]
04. Santogold: “I’m a Lady” (Diplo Mix ft. Amanda Blank) [exclusive]
05. Sir Mix-A-Lot: “Posse on Broadway”
06. Santogold: “Lights Out” (Diplo’s Panda Bear Mix) [exclusive]
07. Aretha Franklin: “Save Me”
08. Devo: “Be Stiff”
09. B-52’s: “Mesopotamia”
10. Gerri and the Holograms: “Gerri and the Holograms”
11. Santogold: “Anne” (Switch Mix) [exclusive]
12. Santogold: “L.E.S. Artistes” (XXXchange Mix ft. Movado)
13. Cutty Ranks: “Dutty Six Pack” [exclusive]
14. Santogold: “Find a Way” (Graeme and Switch Mix ft. Kid Cudi) / Lunar Camel [exclusive]
15. Richie Spice x Ratatat: “Marijuana”
16. Desmond Dekker: “007 (Shanty Town)”
17. Santogold: “Guns of Brooklyn” [exclusive]
18. Dixie Cups: “Iko Iko”
19. Tony Matterhorn: “Big Belly Guns” [exclusive]
20. Santogold: “Get It Up” (Radioclit mix ft. MIA & Gorilla Zoe) [exclusive]
21. “Mark Ronson in Studio”
22. Trouble Andrew: “Run - Hide”
23. Sister Nancy: “Pigeon Rock”
24. Nora Dean: “Barbwire”
25. Shinehead: “Know How Fe Chat”
26. The Clash: “Ghetto Defendant”
27. Warrior Queen: “Check It”
28. Santogold x Benga: “Unstoppable / Night Dub” [exclusive]
29. Shawty Lo x Skream: “Dey Know / Stagger”
30. Santogold: “Creator” (Mumdance Mix ft. Jammer, Badness, Chronik Rage, Slikman & Tempz) [exclusive]
31. Xray: “Turbulence Dubplate” (Starstruck Diplo Mix) [exclusive]
32. Barrington Levy: “Send a Moses”
33. Prince Jazzbo: “Ital Corner”
34. Santogold: “Icarus” [exclusive]
35. Santogold x Diplo: “Right Brigade” (hidden track) [exclusive]

Switch tonight @ Crobar (9.5.08)

This DJ’s behind the likes of M.I.A. and Santogold, and he’s currently working on an album with Diplo. Catch him at his Crobar debut. No cover with RSVP on GOING!

SWITCH

Fri 9/5 (9PM) @ Crobar

1543 N. Kingsbury Ave. Chicago, IL 60622   Map
The Buzz: 476 people like it
  • This is a 21+ event.
  • Cost: FREE w/RSVP
  • Official Site: http://www.crobar.com
    • Free admission before 12:00AM with RSVP.

Musée Christian Dior - Dandy Land

Sometime during the next few weeks, those in France should make a trip out to Granville, the seaside town where Christian Dior once lived in a big pink house on a cliff. His home has since been transformed into the Musée Christian Dior, and the current exhibition, “Dandysmes: 1808-2008” displays silk cravats, David Bowie’s smoking jacket, portraits of dandies on loan from European museums, old manuscripts — like Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly’s famous dandy manifesto — and dozens of other artifacts created or owned by dandies. Read More »

Dandy Land via dossierjournal

Zac Efron in Nudie Jeans

Really dig Nudie Jeans fit…

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Zac Efron wearing a pair of Nudie Jeans on his way to the studio recently. via Denimology

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Eugenio Recuenco - Spanish Photographer

Eugenio Recuenco Via SexinArt

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Inspiring imagery by Spanish photographer Eugenio Recuenco (via).

Eugenio Recuenco Via SexinArt

Alex Prager - Photography

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Sexy kitsch photography by Alex Prager - love her classy full screen big impact web site too.

Alex Prager via SexinArt

Herbert Baglione in Aarhus, Denmark - Street Art

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Herbert’s work above is part of “Icons for Now”, a street installation show for Denmark’s Aarhus Festival in the city of Aarhus. Other artists included in the exhibition are HuskMitNavn and ESPO.

VIA WOOSTER

Rene Gagnon - Street Artist

Fresh Stuff From Rene Gagnon….Love the Wu-Tang reference…also via Wooster

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Artist: Buff Monster - Sweet Devil

“Sweet Devil” via Art MoCo

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Buff Monster’s new show, The Sweetest Thing, is a new collection of prints, panels and paintings that depict the usual suspects in fine form. The visual candyland of pepto-pink, grey, white and black is the landscape for maraschino cherry-type forms, stylized breasts and the iconic “devilish scrubbing bubble gone bad.” Geometric patterns and kanji characters join the happy squirting. Eyes closed or crossed, in Buff Monster’s world, it’s all about the sweetest thing.Artist: Buff Monster
+ coreyhelfordgallery.com

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Artist: Laura Breitman - Millpond

“Millpond” via Art MoCo

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Laura Breitman’s work looks like painting or photography when seen from a distance, but this artist uses thousands of tiny pieces of fabric and paper to create collages often based on photos taken by her husband. Breitman’s attention to detail, nuance and lighting makes her trompe l’oeil work very convincing. The details of the photo blend into colour and shape, much the way they would on the journey from eye to brain and back. Sometimes the artist will colour fabric herself to get just the right shade, and uses a grid to work on one square of her project at a time.
Artist: Laura Breitman
+ laurabreitman.net

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Andre 3000 & his fashion line Benjamin Bixby

The rapper/actor/designer Benjamin Bixby aka Andre Benjamin aka Andre 3000 revealed his 70-piece collection to a few selected people and it’s evident where he got the inspiration from just by looking at the preppy sweater below. Football players from the 1930’s. Andre’ Benjamin’s fashion line which he worked at for several years shows collegiate theme and athletic detailing. The collection consists of sweaters, striped dress shirts, corduroy blazers, and high-waisted trousers. Casual styles starting from polos and thermal knits with interesting embroidered logos to surely intrigue the costumers. Expect for the “Hey Ya!“’s hit maker to drop his men’s collection very soon.



Swoon - Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea

TROY, N.Y. — The project, “Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea,” Swoon’s latest large-scale work, is part floating artwork, part performance, part mobile utopia and seemingly part summer camp for grown-up artsy kids. For the work Swoon, 30, collaborated with musicians from the Minneapolis band Dark Dark Dark; the writer Lisa D’Amour, who contributed a play to be performed at stops along the way; the musician Sxip Shirey; and a host of others.

In the summers of 2006 and ’07 Swoon, known primarily as a street artist, did a similar project, “Miss Rockaway Armada,” in which she and a group of artists boated down the Mississippi on a large flotilla. It was essentially an experiment in communal life, and while many who took part are involved in “Swimming Cities,” the new work is more focused on the aesthetic aspect of the vessels. Read more

By JULIE BLOOM

SOURCE - NEW YORK TIMES

Upcoming Fashion Weeks

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It’s that time of season again. When designers and their teams are near ready to present their collections for Spring and Summer. The exciting thing is that in recent years it’s become a nation wide celebration of talent with fashion week events spurring across the U.S. There are many fashion weeks throughout the world but, today, I am just focusing on fashion weeks in the U.S.  read more

Most fashion weeks show twice per year in September and February. September collections feature the upcoming Spring/Summer collections and February features Fall/Winter collections. The grandmother of all of the shows is New York Fashion Week which dates back to 1943 when it used to be called “Press Week” (for more details: Press Week)

Here is a list of fashion weeks that I’ve researched. Please feel free to add to this list.

Atlanta Fashion Week

Boston Fashion Week

Charlotte NC Fashion Week

Chicago Fashion Week

Fashion Week Cleveland

D.C. Fashion Week

Detroit Fashion Week

Honolulu Fashion Week

Fashion Week LA

Miami Fashion Week

Milwaukee Fashion Week

New York Fashion Week

Nolcha Fashion Week New York

Saint Louis Fashion Week

Fashion Week San Diego

USA International Fashion Shows

Virginia Fashion Week

SOURCE: http://newyorkaccents.blogspot.com/2008/08/get-noticed-upcoming-runway-fashion.html

Ellen Allien & Modeselektor Sonotheque Tonight (9/3/08)

Join us for a rare stateside appearance by Internationally renowned techno artist ELLEN ALLIEN at Sonotheque. Hailing from Berlin, ALLIEN has six full-length albums to her credit, has done remixes for the likes of AUDION and BECK (among others), and is the founder of the highly regarded BPitch Control label. Venuszine describes her work as “hypnotic and heavy”, “fused with layers of ethereal harmonies and an underlying edge that subtly hints at a sense of impending doom.” Joining her, eclectic Berliners and labelmates MODESELEKTOR offers a live set of impulsive, stuttering IDM. They’ll be playing material from last year’s brilliant BC release Happy Birthday! ANDREW KEVINS spins throughout, mixing diverse musical styles together in forming seamless dancefloor interludes that should compliment things perfectly here. ( XLR8R )

WED . 9/3/08 ( 9:00pm , $15 buy )
(@ Sonotheque - 1444 W Chicago)
Modeselektor (Germany) label: BPitch Control
Ellen Allien (Germany) label: BPitch Control
Andrew Kevins

WeeklyArchitectureDesignDigest

Airborne Environments:
Aircraft as micro-world? Newson’s “design language” for the airplane, we read, “is defined less by what the passengers see than by how they feel.”

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Urban Play
Exhibition installed throughout Amsterdam and Utrecht.
droog design and scott burnham have assembled groups of innovative designers and architects from around the world to create thirteen urban interventions, tools, toys and objects which will temporarily be placed along a route on the central IJ-riverfront in amsterdam. the collection of objects and installations for the amsterdam route is an experiment in imagination, which is meant to invite public interaction and raise questions about the residents of a city and how much they influence
decisions being made regarding the creativity of their town.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/3765/droog-event-2-urban-play-exhibition-at-experimentadesign-amsterdam-2008.html

Urban Playground
Who say’s you can’t have fun at the bus stop? It might be a way to get people on the bus here in Des Moines.

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“the suburbs have three densities…
Thoughtful forum on the future of our suburban landscape…


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John Legend - “Green Light” feat Andre 3000

Check out the new John Legend track featuring Andre 3000….”Green Light”

John Legend Green Light Featuring Andre 3000


Kate Moss - Interview Magazine September 08 Issue -HOTT!!!

Kate Moss is looking soo hot in the September issue of Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine…I highly recommend picking it up…The article also suggests that Kate killed the previous notions of the “super-model” with her shorter height, and less vivacious curves…

Did Kate really kill the Super-Model?

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