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Kate Marshall is a UK based artist who likes to flirt between painting and drawing, using loose, wet lines on pale grounds to create images of femininity inspired by china figurines, dated porn, Boucher and gossip magazines.
It’s a question that comes to mind all the time. Who among living artists will continue to be famous a century or so from now? Who will continue to seem important and powerful? The Barnes Foundation is full of Jules Pascins, once a name that every art lover knew. Now he’s one so obscure it wouldn’t be fair as a Trivial Pursuit question. John Steuart Curry? He used to be big, back in the 1930s, when the American regionalists were winning the art wars for a while against the Modernists. Now? He still has murals in Kansas and D.C., and he turns up in a few museum collections, including the Whitney. But it takes a long wall card to remind people of who he was. I was reminded of this because my blogger colleague Tyler Green has begun playing an art history list game, one that actually forces you to think about your taste and judgments, once you start toying with it. The game? Name the ten truly great artists in each century. So for the 20th, let’s say Matisse, Picasso, Duchamp, Bonnard, Miro, Mondrian, Pollock, Bacon, (David) Smith, Warhol. But now I’ve left out Malevich, Kandinsky, Brancusi, Beckmann, DeKooning, Rauschenberg, Johns, Hesse and Serra, all of whom changed the terms of the game in some way. And Klee! (A kingdom unto himself.) Green throws in a photographer, Arbus. But if you’re going to do that I don’t see how you can leave out Cartier-Bresson, at least for the work in the 30s that was some of the greatest Surrealist art of the decade. And then there’s Robert Frank. Maybe it’s easier to start with the seventh century, when Anonymous was the only name to be reckoned with, at least in the West. And further on the topic of fickle fame, the U.K. daily The Guardian has published the results of a survey of 6400 Brits who were asked to name their top ten “arts heroes”. You’ll be pleased to know that Leonardo made the cut, but probably because he’s that guy in The Da Vinci Code. I don’t know how you’ll feel about the news that Banksy scored higher than Picasso.
Links of The Daily
Yay or Nay: Baby doll dresses…Gratuitous celeb swag…Airport manicures?
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
(NEW YORK) Sunglasses: The last affordable luxury [International Herald Tribune]
Who says you can’t have couture within your budget?
Baby Blues: The Hideous Trend that Must Be Stopped [NY Post]
“I used to yell at the girls in my office to dress up more. Now, I have 50 girls running around in baby-doll dresses.”
Beauty Treatments On the Fly [NY Sun]
The perfect way to deal with a layover
The Paparazzi: Love Them or Hate Them, But Fashion Needs Them [Portfolio]
Free swag for photos
The Marrying Kind [Style.com]
It’s that time again, here’s the wedding season’s must-haves.
Stefani confirms Bryant Park for September
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
(NEW YORK) After taking a three-season sabbatical from the runways of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, Gwen Stefani is poised to come back with a vengeance. Her L.A.M.B. line has confirmed that it will stage a full-scale runway show at Bryant Park on the first day of New York’s Fashion Week, September 5, at 8:00 p.m. in the largest venue available, The Tent, sliding right into the fashion calendar ahead of Tommy Hilfiger’s show. Stefani will be in good company, with the likes of Oscar de la Renta, Carolina Herrera, and Michael Kors all showing their collections in the same locale later that week. This will be Stefani’s second runway show, her ninth L.A.M.B. collection, and despite all the success (with a fragrance from Coty to boot), she’s not content to rest on her laurels. Once she’s taken her runway bow, the Grammy Award winner is jetting to Hamburg, Germany for her “Sweet Escape” European tour, performing at the Color Line Arena.
Like something straight out of the mind of Jules Verne or H.G. Wells, the Steampunk design culture has been around for a long time. In a recent Wired feature we see that the movement is alive and kicking. Using strongly contrasting elements such as Victorian refinement and industrial grit, imparting a distinct sense of old technology vs. new, the aesthetic is both beautiful and unique. Steam and clockworks replace silicon logic, brass and copper stand in for titanium and plastic and airships replace spaceships. Rather than simply read about and imagine this future world, today’s steampunks are creating and building that beautiful aesthetic through use of modern technology mixed with industrial metals in a very classical style. See the Wired article here.
Video: Justin Timberlake “LoveStoned/I Think She Knows”
By: Julianne Shepherd
POSTED: 12:26 EST, June 18, 2007
Timberlake’s new video: White Noise for real.
Don’t suppose you remember that movie White Noise starring Michael Keaton, where legions of deceased spirits are talking to us through the airwaves, and trying to kill humans via the television. Its tagline was “The dead are trying to get ahold of you,” according to IMDB.com. “Lovestoned” is Justin Timberlake trying to get ahold of your equalizer (smell me), while “I Think She Knows” is the part where he “crosses over,” serene in a white suit and twinkle in his eye, slow-mo like dude just popped an ambien. Check it:
Gianfranco Ferré, perhaps best known as the “architect of fashion” for his sculpted shapes, structured forms, and for his groundbreaking career at Christian Dior, died Sunday evening after suffering a massive brain hemorrhage. The Italian designer was 62. (full story)
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Oasis check out The White Stripes at Hyde Park
Jack and Meg kick off the 02 Wireless Festival
14.Jun.07 10:37pm
The White Stripes were watched by the likes of Oasis and The View as they kicked off the London leg of the 02 Wireless Festival at Hyde Park tonight (June 14).
After two ‘warm-up’ gigs in the UK capital this week, Jack and Meg White played their festival show in front of a crowd that included Oasis bandmates Noel Gallagher and Gem Archer and The View’s Kyle Falconer. (continue reading)
Madonna ‘more powerful’ than Rolling Stones
Elton John and Jay-Z also among the world’s most influential
2 hours ago
American magazine Forbes has produced its annual Celebrity 100 list for 2007, and it has crowned Madonna as the most powerful musician above the likes of The Rolling Stones.
Forbes generated the list by analysing celebrity earnings, in addition to monitoring media metrics such as Google hits, press mentions as compiled by Lexis/Nexis, TV and radio mentions from Factiva and the number of times an A-lister appears on the cover of major consumer magazines.
Featuring third on the overall list, and reaching the top of the musician pile, Madonna came in above The Rolling Stones, Elton John and even rock giants U2.
The musicians list is as follows:
3. Madonna
4. The Rolling Stones
7. Elton John
9. Jay-Z
18. Bon Jovi
20. Celine Dion
22. U2
32. 50 Cent
34. Justin Timberlake
43. Sean Combs
57. Will Smith
60. Jessica Simpson
The list itself was topped by Oprah Winfrey.
See Forbes.com
for the full list.
Pitchfork:
Sly Stone, Rapture, Hot Chip Play Lovebox
Also: Patrick Wolf, Junior Boys, Fujiya & Miyagi, Diplo, Bonde do Role
The second (to our knowledge) of this year’s festivals with a love metaphor for its name is the Lovebox festival, though “Lovebox” has more of a Sarah Silverman ring to it than “Italia Wave Love Festival.”
Lovebox 2007 will feature sets from the Rapture, Hot Chip, Sly and the Family Stone, Blondie, Patrick Wolf, Junior Boys, Super Furry Animals, Diplo, Blondie, Bonde do Role, Maurice Fulton, Daddy G of Massive Attack, Fujiya & Miyagi, the B-52’s, Toots & the Maytals, Digitalism, Switch, New Young Pony Club, Pull Tiger Tail, Blood Red Shoes, Rub N Tug, Nouvelle Vague, Spirit Catcher, Felix Da Housecat, the Presets, Tiga, Kissy Sell Out, Tunng, Good Shoes, Black Strobe, and more.
Lovebox will take place at London’s Victoria Park on July 21 and 22 and at Dublin’s Malahide Castle on July 21.
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Because we’re never gonna survive, unless. His Label 2.0 is set to launch with a different revenue model: free music supported by ads on the site. Considering iTunes rewrote how music is sold–with individually downloadable songs–this might work too. But, it have some popular artists signed to draw enough advertisers to pull it off. Names draw sponsor interest, otherwise, they’ll be selling ad space to the local pizza joint or lowermybills.com. (Napster tried this at first too, but eventually had to go to a fee-based service. Difference there was that they were giving away someone else’s music.)
Another thing to consider is that since something like half of all music now has not been purchased, rather, shared among friends, this could be a possible solution to curb music piracy–why worry about illegal downloading if it’s free and if the label can still make money off ads? (Thing is, will advertisers want to sign up on a site where content will be shared somewhere else–kids with CDs of mp3s distributed while they’re at school for example–away from the ‘reach and frequency’ of their message?)
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So now Live Earth is coming up, Al Gore’s other wet dream. I appreciate the sentiments surrounding the global warming issue, but doesn’t this event feel like it’ll just blend in with the white noise of past agenda-driven concerts? Live 8, Band Aid, Live Aid, Farm Aid, Bar Maid, LemonAde, First Aid. Where does it end? All of those were supposed to ‘solve’ their respective problems.
They didn’t though.
So bands moved on to the next issue. I don’t see this one ‘solving the climate crisis’ as their mission statement indicates. Guess I always had a problem with the notion that if a band played guitar that the problem goes away instantly. Bono sings and suddenly AIDS disappears. Instead, why not settle for raising awareness like Gore did it with his Alfomercial/doc. (Ironic that Woodstock had no political agenda beyond peace, yet to this day it’s still the one concert most people remember, and likely the greenest of all of them too.) And if going green is so critical to the mission, how much energy will be expended to raise awareness this time around?
I’ve been waiting for these American Apparel slacks for the longest time. Finally, a jean that isn’t too tight, too low -i nteresting colors, like mustard and peacock blue, is a great bonus.
Pissed off about the ending….I was…
Here is a theory that makes me second guess my initial frustration…
Post from Coolhunting:
Lighter, faster and half the size of its predecessor (the Classic), the new SteriPEN Adventurer uses UV light to sterilize sketchy water in under a minute. Ensuring safe drinking water where ever your travels take you, I would not have survived without it on my recent travels to countries like Cambodia and Laos.
Just press the button and place the lamp end in the water and stir. If you prematurely take the lamp out of the water, the purifier will warn you with a red light that the water is not ready to drink. There is no need for chemicals or harsh treatments that leave your water tasting like metal. Using the same sterilization technique as hospitals, the Adventurer can purify 16 ounces of water in 48 seconds, killing bacteria and viruses related to Dysentary, E. Coli, Salmonella, Cholera, Typhoid Fever and Giardia, among others—ailments could ruin your trip or even worse.
A must have for summer travels, the Adventurer SteriPEN is available at Amazon for $130.
Brands are walking on thin ice when the experience they promise is mostly make believe. But some brands go beyond thin ice and try to walk on water, promising pure fiction to keep themselves afloat. click here for more
Very interesting story on homelessness and the struggle to fight drug addiction and mental illness…click here for the story
Much has been written about the myriad ways in which technology and the Internet are changing our culture. But a new book submits that the most important change being wrought is a decidedly negative one: the devaluing of real talent in favor of a mindless celebration of DIY culture. Are we, through YouTube and other online innovations, “celebrating the amateur to the point of absurdity”? Perhaps, but it’s also likely that “the pendulum will swing…(click here for more)
“A new study suggests only a small chunk of the brain, called the dentate gyrus, is responsible for ‘episodic’ memories–information that allows us to tell similar places and situations apart. Déjà vu is a memory problem, occurring when our brains struggle to tell the difference between two extremely similar situations. As people age, déjà-vu-like confusion happens more often–and it also happens in people suffering from brain diseases like Alzheimer’s.”…
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