Cool Hunting
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Brevity's Rainbow
by Letizia Rossi
Brevity's Rainbow, a group show opening this Friday, 8 February, at Cinders Gallery in Brooklyn is an attempt to return a sense of intimacy to the spectacle of the art show. Curated by Maxwell Williams of Tokion, the show features over 70 artists interpreting "Lilliputian and the temporal, the specks of dust that make up the world, the fleeting moments of pleasure and pain."
The upshot is a vast collection of diminutive work, all under five inches by David Shrigley (above left), Deanne Cheuk, Keren Richter (above right), Rebecca Turbow, Gaelan Mckeown-Hickel, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Andrew Kuo, Lansing-Dreiden, Maya Hayuk, Kime Buzzeli and Art Lodge, among others. Williams hopes to create "a galaxy of tiny art, a prismatic assemblage of little moments: this is Brevity’s Rainbow." An after-party at Sound Fix follows the show.
See additional images and flyers for the show and after party after the jump.
Brevity's Rainbow
Opening Reception: 8 February 2008, 7-10pm
8 February-17 February 2008
Cinders Gallery
103 Havemeyer Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211 map
tel. +1 718 388 2311
Y-3 "Nice to Meet You" Sneaker
by Ami Kealoha
We love New York, everybody loves New York, but the latest to proclaim it is Yohji Yamamoto with this limited-edition Y-3 shoe that inaugurates the new Y-3 store opening in Manhattan today. Made using Japanese denim from Yamamoto's fabric atelier, we're digging the futuristic look and who can resist the charm of the title, "Nice to Meet You," printed on the insole? Only 50 pairs are out there, retailing for $500 exclusively at the new store. Get thee to the Meatpacking!
Click images for detail and see more after the jump.
Y-3
317 West 13th Street
New York, NY 10014 map
Koons
by Doug Black
Jeff Koons’ forthcoming monograph traces his spectacular career from 1979 to the present. True to form, the book honors his overstated aesthetic with proportions that may dwarf some coffee tables. Limited to a pressing of 1,600 copies, it serves as both an in-depth biographical look at the artist and a career retrospective of his work, complete with hundreds of oversized images. For the content, book designer and editor Hans Werner Holzwarth culled essays from Interview magazine’s editor-in-chief, Ingrid Sischy, as well as Katy Siegel and Eckhard Schneider.
Since Koons regularly commands millions on the auction circuit, this book will serve as a large-format approximation of his work for contemporary art enthusiasts of more humble means, which is not to say it’s cheap. The “Collector’s Edition” comes in a cloth-covered clamshell box and will be restricted to 1,500 signed copies that go for $1000 each. The “Art Edition” is much the same, but will likely cost considerably more, as it is limited to 100 copies and accompanied by “an artwork." The nature of the work remains unclear, but odds are it won't be a 90-ton puppy statue.
Both editions will be available in April. You can preorder them at Taschen.
Nike Be True City Collection Update: Release Date and U.S Locations
by Tim Yu
Nike continues to keep us on our toes. The Be True City Collection has undergone some last minute changes and CH has all the insider info including release date and retail locations.
If you want to represent your city, you are going to have to embrace a new color:
New York - Pine Green (pictured above)
Los Angeles - Orange Blaze (pictured left)
Sao Paulo (changed from Rio) - White
Tokyo - Red
Hong Kong - Varsity Royal
London - Varsity Purple
Paris - Varsity Maize
Each color was carefully selected depending on the respective city and this is the first time Nike created a collection in a solid color with the highlighted piping.
They will drop on 9 February 2008 around the globe. U.S retailers are listed after the jump. You better get in line now if you want to sport these.
Daniel Everett
by Lost At E Minor
We love the photographic work of Chicago-based Daniel Everett. His work captures desolate environments but with a sense of hope and optimism. His work-in-progress series, "Departure," deals with the "dislocation and alienation of modern utilitarian landscape. Sort of a study of these ubiquitous transitory spaces (or non-spaces) and our relationship to them."
