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Keren Richter: The Yellow Wallpaper
(17 April 2007) - "The Yellow Wallpaper," a solo show featuring new paintings by Keren Richter opens tonight, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 at Cake Shop in New York City. At 25, Richter has already earned a name for herself with her line drawings of creepy-cute mod girls and ethereal dreamscapes, landing illustration work for magazines such as Bust, Heeb, YM, Jane and Nylon, as well as creating rock...
(17 April 2007) - "The Yellow Wallpaper," a solo show featuring new paintings by Keren Richter opens tonight, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 at Cake Shop in New York City. At 25, Richter has already earned a name for herself with her line drawings of creepy-cute mod girls and ethereal dreamscapes, landing illustration work for magazines such as Bust, Heeb, YM, Jane and Nylon, as well as creating rock...
Flavorpill WMC 2007 Video
(11 April 2007) - WMC 2007 Directly from the frontlines of the 2007 Winter Music Conference, Flavorpill commissioned m ss ng p eces to make a video capturing all of the music and mayhem of the event. The result is a kinetic party that manages to wrap Miami flavor, a little irony, the love of music and even the South Beach institution La Sandwicherie into one. We don't know...
(11 April 2007) - WMC 2007 Directly from the frontlines of the 2007 Winter Music Conference, Flavorpill commissioned m ss ng p eces to make a video capturing all of the music and mayhem of the event. The result is a kinetic party that manages to wrap Miami flavor, a little irony, the love of music and even the South Beach institution La Sandwicherie into one. We don't know...
Raw Fusion at WMC
(19 March 2007) - As the WMC approaches, so do events featuring friends of CH that you don’t want to miss. Catch our own DJ Scribe, as well as Baltimore DJ Karizma (who Scribe reviewed here last week), among many other talents at the Cool Hunting-sponsored Raw Fusion party. Click the flyer for more details....
(19 March 2007) - As the WMC approaches, so do events featuring friends of CH that you don’t want to miss. Catch our own DJ Scribe, as well as Baltimore DJ Karizma (who Scribe reviewed here last week), among many other talents at the Cool Hunting-sponsored Raw Fusion party. Click the flyer for more details....
Peter Sutherland: Game and History of Earth
(08 March 2007) - Photographer Peter Sutherland has two new publications, Game and History of Earth, which are both launching tonight at an event at Printed Matter in NYC As you may recall from a previous CH post, Peter is a member of the Chinatown Soccer Club, a loosely-organized group of artists, designers and the like. In addition to playing soccer, Peter has been busily documenting the games...
(08 March 2007) - Photographer Peter Sutherland has two new publications, Game and History of Earth, which are both launching tonight at an event at Printed Matter in NYC As you may recall from a previous CH post, Peter is a member of the Chinatown Soccer Club, a loosely-organized group of artists, designers and the like. In addition to playing soccer, Peter has been busily documenting the games...
NYC Art Fairs 2007
(23 February 2007) - After hitting the Armory, Scope and Pulse art fairs, Team CH has put together a selection of artworks from the major shows taking place in NYC this weekend. The Armory show seemed bigger and better than ever this year, consolidated into the lower level of Pier 94 for a more accessible layout. Scope's new digs in tents at Lincoln center lent the affair a...
(23 February 2007) - After hitting the Armory, Scope and Pulse art fairs, Team CH has put together a selection of artworks from the major shows taking place in NYC this weekend. The Armory show seemed bigger and better than ever this year, consolidated into the lower level of Pier 94 for a more accessible layout. Scope's new digs in tents at Lincoln center lent the affair a...
The Hoody Gallery
(13 February 2007) - Now that the hoody's been elevated to avant-couture, it follows that there's an exhibition devoted to the ubiquitous item of clothing. Featuring works by local Bay Area designers, such as Nicacelly (pictured), Uhu Clothing and Like Minded People, The Hoody Gallery is a group show of limited-edition hoodies that have been silkscreened, re-invented and otherwise tricked-out. The one-night event also features a line-up of...
(13 February 2007) - Now that the hoody's been elevated to avant-couture, it follows that there's an exhibition devoted to the ubiquitous item of clothing. Featuring works by local Bay Area designers, such as Nicacelly (pictured), Uhu Clothing and Like Minded People, The Hoody Gallery is a group show of limited-edition hoodies that have been silkscreened, re-invented and otherwise tricked-out. The one-night event also features a line-up of...
Stoked Art Auction
(05 January 2007) - Stoked Mentoring has partnered with the Milk Gallery in Manhattan for a benefit art auction on Saturday,13 January 2007, at 6pm. Stoked is a non-profit organization that brings together at-risk youth and successful adults to learn sports like surfing, skating or snowboarding. Through action sports, mentoring, and life coaching Stoked hopes to develop “Successful Teens with Opportunity , Knowledge, Experience and Determination.” Sal Masekela,...
(05 January 2007) - Stoked Mentoring has partnered with the Milk Gallery in Manhattan for a benefit art auction on Saturday,13 January 2007, at 6pm. Stoked is a non-profit organization that brings together at-risk youth and successful adults to learn sports like surfing, skating or snowboarding. Through action sports, mentoring, and life coaching Stoked hopes to develop “Successful Teens with Opportunity , Knowledge, Experience and Determination.” Sal Masekela,...
Cool Hunting Video Presents: From the Archive: The CES Experience
(05 January 2007) - As I get ready to head to the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas I have to brace myself for the frenetic montage of sights and sounds that one can not avoid when attending the world's largest trade show. This week's CH Video is pulled from the archive for a look at last year's bonanza. ...
(05 January 2007) - As I get ready to head to the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas I have to brace myself for the frenetic montage of sights and sounds that one can not avoid when attending the world's largest trade show. This week's CH Video is pulled from the archive for a look at last year's bonanza. ...
Cool Hunting Video Presents: Art Basel Miami Beach 2006, Part Two
(25 December 2006) - The little sister to the 37 year-old fair in Basel, in just five years Art Basel Miami Beach has established itself as a major international art fair—albeit a slightly wilder, more social version than the others. We decided to use the popularity of the fair and the many other fairs and events happening at the same time to look at the current art market...
(25 December 2006) - The little sister to the 37 year-old fair in Basel, in just five years Art Basel Miami Beach has established itself as a major international art fair—albeit a slightly wilder, more social version than the others. We decided to use the popularity of the fair and the many other fairs and events happening at the same time to look at the current art market...
Cool Hunting Video Presents: Art Basel Miami Beach 2006, Part One
(19 December 2006) - For CH's second annual video series about the series of art fairs, parties and events that take place around Art Basel Miami Beach for a week in early December, we go from the literal fringes (artist-designed blimps on the beach) to Basel itself. This first of two parts is a glimpse at the many sculptures, paintings and installations that fill buildings and tents (and...
(19 December 2006) - For CH's second annual video series about the series of art fairs, parties and events that take place around Art Basel Miami Beach for a week in early December, we go from the literal fringes (artist-designed blimps on the beach) to Basel itself. This first of two parts is a glimpse at the many sculptures, paintings and installations that fill buildings and tents (and...
Scope Miami 2006
(14 December 2006) - Now in its third year, Scope is one of the more established of the many art fairs held last week in Miami, but still feels like the alternative to the alternative—a looser, more kinetic little sister to both Nada and Basel counterparts. Having graduated from their old digs in the Thompson Hotel, Scope now has a tent of its own. But, walking through it...
(14 December 2006) - Now in its third year, Scope is one of the more established of the many art fairs held last week in Miami, but still feels like the alternative to the alternative—a looser, more kinetic little sister to both Nada and Basel counterparts. Having graduated from their old digs in the Thompson Hotel, Scope now has a tent of its own. But, walking through it...
Wooster on Spring
(14 December 2006) - If you've ever spent anytime in New York's NoLita neighborhood, you may have noticed a giant deserted-looking building on the corner of Elizabeth and Spring. The building stands out because it's covered in ever-changing street art—from good old fashioned graffiti to paper paste-ups and milk crate-based sculptures. For almost 20 years it has been a place for writers to make their mark, as the...
(14 December 2006) - If you've ever spent anytime in New York's NoLita neighborhood, you may have noticed a giant deserted-looking building on the corner of Elizabeth and Spring. The building stands out because it's covered in ever-changing street art—from good old fashioned graffiti to paper paste-ups and milk crate-based sculptures. For almost 20 years it has been a place for writers to make their mark, as the...
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane: The Studio
(30 November 2006) - The Studio, an art show examining the role of the artist's studio in the creative process opens Friday 1 December at the Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane in Dublin, Ireland. Inspired by the studio of Irish painter Francis Bacon which is housed at the Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, The Studio features works by Andy Warhol, John Baldessari, Thomas Demand, Urs Fischer,...
(30 November 2006) - The Studio, an art show examining the role of the artist's studio in the creative process opens Friday 1 December at the Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane in Dublin, Ireland. Inspired by the studio of Irish painter Francis Bacon which is housed at the Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, The Studio features works by Andy Warhol, John Baldessari, Thomas Demand, Urs Fischer,...
Second Life Artists Conversation
(28 November 2006) - Tomorrow night at Jen Bekman gallery, Marisa Olson from Rhizome will moderate a conversation with James Deavin and Eva and Franco Mattes about their documentary art work from Second Life. While more and more people are making their way to the virtual world, Second Life is still a venue for relatively few. And those of us who do get there aren't necessarily able to...
(28 November 2006) - Tomorrow night at Jen Bekman gallery, Marisa Olson from Rhizome will moderate a conversation with James Deavin and Eva and Franco Mattes about their documentary art work from Second Life. While more and more people are making their way to the virtual world, Second Life is still a venue for relatively few. And those of us who do get there aren't necessarily able to...
Mortified
(22 November 2006) - Mortified: Real Words. Real People. Real Pathetic. is a collection of hilarious real-life letters, journal excerpts, poems, lyrics, and locker notes detailing the excruciatingly embarrassing pitfalls of youth. With all the voyeuristic thrills of reading your sister's diary without the consequences, Mortified is hard to put down. First performed as a live stage show, Mortified has been selling out seats across the country since...
(22 November 2006) - Mortified: Real Words. Real People. Real Pathetic. is a collection of hilarious real-life letters, journal excerpts, poems, lyrics, and locker notes detailing the excruciatingly embarrassing pitfalls of youth. With all the voyeuristic thrills of reading your sister's diary without the consequences, Mortified is hard to put down. First performed as a live stage show, Mortified has been selling out seats across the country since...
Resfest London: Design Saturday
(17 November 2006) - Celebrating their 10th anniversary, Resfest's hitting London this week and the Design Saturday program, happening tomorrow, 18 November 2006, has a line-up featuring the calibre of artists and designers we've come to expect from Res. In yet another Iron chef-style design battle Designer's Republic will go head to head designing a video in competion with D.A.D.D.Y., who will also appear on a panel with...
(17 November 2006) - Celebrating their 10th anniversary, Resfest's hitting London this week and the Design Saturday program, happening tomorrow, 18 November 2006, has a line-up featuring the calibre of artists and designers we've come to expect from Res. In yet another Iron chef-style design battle Designer's Republic will go head to head designing a video in competion with D.A.D.D.Y., who will also appear on a panel with...
Cool Hunting Video Presents: Cut & Paste
(14 November 2006) - A little more than a year ago, CH sponsored Cut & Paste, the first design competition to square designers against each other in a live tournament-style battle. From the initial sold-out event in NYC, Cut & Paste has grown into a nationwide tour with stops in four cities featuring local designers and judges in each spot. For episode 55, CH joined the party that...
(14 November 2006) - A little more than a year ago, CH sponsored Cut & Paste, the first design competition to square designers against each other in a live tournament-style battle. From the initial sold-out event in NYC, Cut & Paste has grown into a nationwide tour with stops in four cities featuring local designers and judges in each spot. For episode 55, CH joined the party that...
Steve Powers: Street Art
(07 November 2006) - Do you really need a white cube to show art? Is a great painting sitting on a street corner still a great painting? Can someone make something new happen in an art world where everybody has seen everything already? Steve Powers, armed with enough gallery and museum credentials to stuff a resume (he's a graffiti writer, author of The Art Of Getting Over and...
(07 November 2006) - Do you really need a white cube to show art? Is a great painting sitting on a street corner still a great painting? Can someone make something new happen in an art world where everybody has seen everything already? Steve Powers, armed with enough gallery and museum credentials to stuff a resume (he's a graffiti writer, author of The Art Of Getting Over and...
Halloween 2006: Monsters and Sex
(27 October 2006) - Opening tonight, 27 October 2006, Saved Tattoo presents "Monsters and Sex," a show of drawings and paintings, at their new spacious and ornate Williamsburg shop that runs through 27 November 2006. The exhibition features the work of artists and tattooists Chris Conn, Dan Trocchio, Chris O'Donnell, Ray Abeyta and Saved's own Scott Campbell. Chris Conn, retired tattoo artist-turned-illustrator has long been the unrivaled king...
(27 October 2006) - Opening tonight, 27 October 2006, Saved Tattoo presents "Monsters and Sex," a show of drawings and paintings, at their new spacious and ornate Williamsburg shop that runs through 27 November 2006. The exhibition features the work of artists and tattooists Chris Conn, Dan Trocchio, Chris O'Donnell, Ray Abeyta and Saved's own Scott Campbell. Chris Conn, retired tattoo artist-turned-illustrator has long been the unrivaled king...
It's All Good
(26 October 2006) - Boogie, a photographer born and raised in Serbia and now based in New York, has a love of chaos, violence and danger, which perhaps can be attributed to growing up in war-torn Yugoslavia. His first book, It’s All Good, is an ode to the gang members, prostitutes and junkies of notorious New York neighborhoods Bushwick, BedStuy and Queensbridge. His stark photos show junkies shooting...
(26 October 2006) - Boogie, a photographer born and raised in Serbia and now based in New York, has a love of chaos, violence and danger, which perhaps can be attributed to growing up in war-torn Yugoslavia. His first book, It’s All Good, is an ode to the gang members, prostitutes and junkies of notorious New York neighborhoods Bushwick, BedStuy and Queensbridge. His stark photos show junkies shooting...
Paul Booth: Last Rites Tattoo
(25 October 2006) - Needled announced the party for the opening of tattoo artist Paul Booth's Last Rites Tattoo Theater a high end tattoo atelier and gallery. Booth is the first tattoo artist to be accepted into the prestigious National Arts Club The opening will feature cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, and a chance to win a collaborative tattoo session where featured artists work simultaneously on the same tattoo. See...
(25 October 2006) - Needled announced the party for the opening of tattoo artist Paul Booth's Last Rites Tattoo Theater a high end tattoo atelier and gallery. Booth is the first tattoo artist to be accepted into the prestigious National Arts Club The opening will feature cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, and a chance to win a collaborative tattoo session where featured artists work simultaneously on the same tattoo. See...
Hess Is More at Monkeytown
(24 October 2006) - Hess Is More), makes his his stateside debut tomorrow, 25 October 2006, at the Brooklyn screening room-cum-restaurant Monkeytown. Accompanying Hess's eclectic mix of sweetly offbeat melodies—made with the likes of whistles, thumb pianos, music boxes and the "found" sounds of everyday objects—our own aestheticians m ss ng p eces and VJ Daniel Vatsky will fill Monkeytown's four screens with their visual creations. With opener (and...
(24 October 2006) - Hess Is More), makes his his stateside debut tomorrow, 25 October 2006, at the Brooklyn screening room-cum-restaurant Monkeytown. Accompanying Hess's eclectic mix of sweetly offbeat melodies—made with the likes of whistles, thumb pianos, music boxes and the "found" sounds of everyday objects—our own aestheticians m ss ng p eces and VJ Daniel Vatsky will fill Monkeytown's four screens with their visual creations. With opener (and...
David Rockwell and Bruce Mau: Spectacle
(23 October 2006) - New from Phaidon, Spectacle is a detailed exploration of larger-than-life events from around the world. Aiming to capture "the power of real-time, real-space events in today's highly mediated world," Spectacle includes over 200 stunning photographs from events as diverse as the Olympic opening ceremonies, the biannual Brussels Flower Carpet (pictured center, click all images for detail), the Harbin Ice Festival, Burning Man, Cinco de...
(23 October 2006) - New from Phaidon, Spectacle is a detailed exploration of larger-than-life events from around the world. Aiming to capture "the power of real-time, real-space events in today's highly mediated world," Spectacle includes over 200 stunning photographs from events as diverse as the Olympic opening ceremonies, the biannual Brussels Flower Carpet (pictured center, click all images for detail), the Harbin Ice Festival, Burning Man, Cinco de...
The 50th London Film Festival
(19 October 2006) - The 50th anniversary London Film Festival kicked off last night with the superb The Last King of Scotland (pictured right). It may not be immediately obvious from the title, but it's about African despot Idi Amin, who ruled, and ruined, Uganda in the 1970s. Forest Whittaker plays Amin, in a performance that should earn him at least an Oscar nomination. Rising Scottish star James...
(19 October 2006) - The 50th anniversary London Film Festival kicked off last night with the superb The Last King of Scotland (pictured right). It may not be immediately obvious from the title, but it's about African despot Idi Amin, who ruled, and ruined, Uganda in the 1970s. Forest Whittaker plays Amin, in a performance that should earn him at least an Oscar nomination. Rising Scottish star James...
Christian Jankowski: Us and Them
(18 October 2006) - Inspired by juxtapositions of different worlds and subcultures, Christian Jankowski's conceptual work often involves non-artists such as televangelists, psychics, children, and therapists. An extension of Jankowski's previous experiments with commercial filmmaking conventions, "Us and Them," a seasonally-appropriate exhibit of new works including videos, film, photography and sculpture, explores the horror film genre "suggesting how cinematic visions of monstrosity and violence can also communicate broader...
(18 October 2006) - Inspired by juxtapositions of different worlds and subcultures, Christian Jankowski's conceptual work often involves non-artists such as televangelists, psychics, children, and therapists. An extension of Jankowski's previous experiments with commercial filmmaking conventions, "Us and Them," a seasonally-appropriate exhibit of new works including videos, film, photography and sculpture, explores the horror film genre "suggesting how cinematic visions of monstrosity and violence can also communicate broader...
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