May 2012
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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 Designed by...
Serpentine Gallery 8 May 2012
The Serpentine Gallery is proud to announce that Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei will create the 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. It will be the twelfth commission in the Gallery’s annual series, the world’s first and most ambitious architectural programme of its kind.
The design team responsible for the celebrated Beijing National Stadium,...
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That's So Last Century
by Dan Shaw, 1 May 2012 Huffington Post
When the the New York Times Sunday Styles section debuted on May 3, 1992, fashion wasn’t as fashionable as it is today. Style and design had not yet infiltrated every aspect of bourgeois life. Back in the late 20th century, fashion wasn’t the global lingua franca, but Sunday Styles helped usher in a new era.
New York, the fashion capital, was a...
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A Seamless Transition From Fashion to Art
by Charles McGrath, 1 May 2012, NYTimes
In 2004 the fashion designer Helmut Lang, at the peak of his fame, sold the remaining shares of his label to Prada, which already owned the rest, and a few months later quit the fashion business altogether. He spent the following year at his house in the Hamptons, deliberately doing nothing.
“This is very hard to do,” Mr. Lang said recently. “The first...
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WatchCOMME des GARÇONS WHITE DRAMA exhibition
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April 2012
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Bob the Builder / Byrne on Rauschenburg
by David Byrne, 16 May 2008 NYTimes
I approached Bob Rauschenberg in the mid-’80s to design a cover for the Talking Heads record “Speaking in Tongues.” I had recently seen some of his black-and-white photo collages at Leo Castelli’s gallery on West Broadway and thought they were amazing, and I wondered what he would do with an LP cover.
It was not unusual for a pop musician to approach a fine...
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WatchA Little Bit Eternal - Rick Owens and Michele Lamy
film by Danielle Levitt
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Parametric Software is No Substitute for...
by Farshid Moussavi, The Architecture Review, 21 September 2011
There is nothing new about parametric thinking in architecture. Great architecture has always been aware of its societal role, and has consequently been informed by multivalent parameters. Parametricism with a capital ‘P’, on the other hand, dispenses with the hindrances of external parameters and promotes the autonomy of...
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When Bad Is Good →
“There is nothing worse than good taste,” thundered the English art critic Jonathan Jones in the Guardian in 2010. “Nothing more stultifying than an array of consumer choices paraded as a philosophy of life. And there is nothing more absurd than someone who aspires to show good taste in contemporary art.”
Bad taste often passes for avant-garde taste these days—so long as the artist signals...
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