BIG BOI READS HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS
2012-12-24Big Boi aka Daddy Fat Sacks aka Sir Lucious Left Foot aka one half of the mighty OutKast reads Dr. Seuss’s Christmas time classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
TweetMARLEY COFFEE
2012-12-24Marley Coffee is an international gourmet coffee company founded by Bob’s son Rohan Marley and his friend Shane Whittle, sourcing beans from around the world, including Ethiopia, Central America and Jamaica. The beans from Jamaica are from a 52-acre private estate sits atop the Blue Mountains in Chepstowe, Portland, Jamaica, long revered as the region with the world’s most desirable coffee beans. From the Marley’s Jamaica Blue Mountain® coffee farm, to partner farms in Africa, Central America and other top coffee-growing regions worldwide, Marley Coffee strives to support communities and the environment through organic, sustainable and ethical practices.
Tweet
DANIEL ARSHAM – REACH RUIN
2012-12-17Connecting the lines between art, architecture, dance, and theater, Daniel Arsham mines everyday experience for opportunities to confuse and confound our expectations of space and form.
Arsham is known for subverting existing architectural structures in unconventional, playful ways: façades appear to billow in the wind, figures seem wrapped beneath the wall’s surface. His cross-disciplinary practice, historical inquiry, and satirical wit combine into an ongoing interrogation of the real and the imagined.
Exhibition runs through to March 14th, 2013
The Fabric Workshop and Museum
1214 Arch Street
Philadelphia
PA
19107-2816
www.fabricworkshopandmuseum.org
Tweet
JANNIS KOUNELLIS
2012-12-17Renowned for his pivotal role in the development of the Arte Povera movement in the 1960s, over the last 50 years Kounellis has continued to rede”ne artistic practice through his original use of materials.
His works, which might be seen as a combination of painting, collage, installation, ‘environments’, performance and theatre, are made using everyday materials such as soil, coal, stones, hessian sacks, “re, live animals, bed frames and doorways, as well as objets trouvés. These are imbued with dramatic power, stimulating memory and a sense of history, as well as the reality of our present day experience, to express the underlying tensions within contemporary society, and the multiplicity and fragmentation of its language.
During the 21st century, Kounellis has developed an increasingly architectural vocabulary, typified by the labyrinth he constructed in the main hall of Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie for his 2008 retrospective. Working in dialogue with the Mies van der Rohe designed building, the structure served as a complete environment in which to exhibit examples of his earlier works. His exhibition at Blain|Southern has been created in a similar vein, with the sculptural installation responding to the gallery’s vast, post-industrial space.
Exhibition runs through to January 26th, 2013
Blain|Southern Berlin
Potsdamer Straße 77–87
10785
Berlin
VHILS – DEVOID
2012-12-17The artist’s latest body of work will focus on the individual in relation to the overpowering force of urban environments and to the dominant noise created by the cities’ unidirectional line of communication. Devoid will culminate a series of projects executed in 2012 in Shanghai, Paris, the favelas of Rio and Lisbon.
Vhils has been exploring the complexities of the relationship between the individual, the urban environment and the ideological framework that sustains it since first taking up graffiti in the streets of his native Lisbon and has since gained huge international acclaim. Like other graffiti artists, Vhils learnt how to “read” the city, how to navigate its main thoroughfares and back streets, assessing the potential to strike and leave a mark. Yet, he soon realised the proposition contained in the urbanised space of the city extended beyond its physical territory, comprehending a vast cultural domain with ideological edifices rooted in the media, advertising, the designs of consumerism and the projection of public space.
Exhibition runs through to January 5th, 2013
Lazarides Gallery
11 Rathbone Place
London
HUF X GOLDEN BEAR DELUXE VARSITY JACKET
2012-12-17HUF has partnered up with San Francisco-based brand Golden Bear on a collaborative release of their signature Deluxe Varsity Jacket. The Golden Bear Varsity Jacket is a heavyweight outerwear featuring a melton wool body, genuine leather cowhide sleeves, quilted satin interior lining, and a button-snap front closure. The jacket is detailed with custom chainstitch embroidery on the right chest, a HUF Metal Classic H Logo on the left chest and a debossed HUF Circle H logo on the sleeve cuff.
hufworldwide
www.goldenbearsportswear.com
