Friday, September 26, 2008
abc art berlin contemporary will feature the works of 73 selected artists, both established and young, from over 40 Berlin galleries. Many of the participating artists are presenting new works or work specially conceived and produced for the occasion.
The focus of this year’s edition of abc will be on sculpture, installation and the projected [...]
Friday, September 12, 2008
Me and the people who I worked with….
Friday, September 5, 2008
Jon and Matt cooked up this brilliant, portable dog tent. The model in the photos is Louie (who we love). From the commonspace site:
This shelter is collapsable and comes rolled up in a bag. It is made with bio-degradable plastic kindly provided by Cereplast. The lining was hand screen printed on Loomstate organic cotton. Created [...]
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Seems like a lot of people have been re-appropriating and re-imagining design from China lately. Designer Maarten Baas is the latest, with his collaboration with Pearl Lam’s Contrast Gallery in Shanghai. He created a series of hand-carved elm replicas of ordinary Chinese plastic chairs for his exhibition “The Shanghai Riddle.”
Maarten Baas, Plastic Chair in Wood, [...]
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
The Lange Nacht der Museen was last Saturday and over a hundred museums in Berlin were open until 2am. We checked out the Egyptian rooms at the Altes Museum, then headed to the Berliner Dom and the Deutsches Historisches Museen. Last stop was the Collier Schorr curated show at the Deutsche Guggenheim.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
It’s hard to tell from the blurry photo, but this well-dressed businessman has the words “TRASH BOX” lettered neatly on his backpack. A protest against his job? His unfinished manuscript? Life in general? All of the above?
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
In Beijing, we witnessed the building of incredible, totally unsustainable structures that were built to temporarily alleviate seemingly minor problems. For example, a giant silver scaffold erected for a few months to “hide” the demolition and reconstruction of the Qianmen area. In Berlin this morning, we saw the same technique interpreted on a smaller scale. [...]
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
aka House of World Cultures…
We went to the opening of a show called “In the Desert of Modernity” that deals with cities in North Africa and their attempts to modernize after European colonization. The exhibition is unsurprisingly dense and is comprised of a maze of easels holding various charts, images and historical ephemera relating to [...]
Monday, September 1, 2008
Independent Collectors is a place for likeminded art collectors from around the world. Their manifesto:
For us, collecting is closer to hunting than to gathering, because that’s where the thrill is. And hunting is at its most thrilling outside traditional and protectionist structures. We are out to open up a new playing field full of fascinating [...]
Monday, September 1, 2008
A couple of months ago we discovered Little Saigon on Herzbergstrasse and yesterday we had the amazing good fortune of stumbling on “Thai Park” inside of Preußenpark. A gathering place for Thai people from all over Berlin, we settled down to sample some of the dishes being prepared with portable camp stoves. The setup was [...]