Just found this terrific lighting collection by designer Chiara Lampugnani. I’d include this in ANY project I was working on; contemporary or traditional. If you’re in Paris for Maison et Objet, check these out for sure!

from MoCo Loco’s blog:

“Chiara Lampugnani will be showing her Atmosphere series of shaggy
lighting at the Maison et Objet show in Paris this month and then again
in Milan this April. The lamps are made of optical fibres and LEDs on
bases of ceramic and metal. Presently there are 4 lights in the
collection: Cassiopea, Snow, Collie and Candy Floss, all of which give
an air of woven textiles somehow, like loopy knits. Cassiopea does
resemble the upside down jellyfish for which it is named, but Snow can
also bring to mind a huge ball of wool, and the loops in Candy Floss
evoke chain-link fencing, too.”

+ chiaralampugnani.com

via MoCo Loco

Every so often a design comes across the desktop that just blows me away. IPSVM is one such design. Purely a prototype, the board nonetheless kills as an idea. Imagine shredding on this beauty! The fact is, I would never actually skate on this, it is just too beautiful.

Nice work Loren! Everyone be sure to check out the rest of his sick designs at coroflot.

+ coroflot

From the press release:

The Art Newspaper is proud to announce the launch of a web TV channel
for the art world. It features interviews with key collectors,
curators, dealers, artists, and art world luminaries.

The Art Newspaper TV aims to further the success of The Art Newspaper and continue to provide breaking news, art market analysis and insight for the art world, online.

The site features interviews with sculptor Sir Anthony Caro, painter
Ellsworth Kelly and singer Patti Smith – all recorded this year. There
are also illuminating interviews with John Richardson, Jeffrey Deitch,
Adam Lindemann and Simon de Pury, to name but a few.

Anna Somers Cocks, founder of The Art Newspaper and
presenter for The Art Newspaper TV says, "We have always insisted on
going to primary sources for our stories in the print edition and the
online channel will maintain these standards. Firsthand comment from
experts in their respective fields will be the hallmark of our
interviews".

Sign up for a one month free trial by clicking here

Also included with an online subscription is access to a PDF version of the monthly Art Newspaper.

Recent features and interviews include:

Frieze Round Up
Dealers arrived at the Frieze art fair fearing the worst on the back of
a global economic meltdown. The buying frenzy of previous years was
over and buying far more considered.

John Richardson, Art Historian. Part 1
In part one John Richardson lifelong friend of Pablo Picasso talks to
Anna Somers Cocks about the current crop of emerging artists and
reflects upon his early days in America.

Zoo Art Fair Feature
This year, its fifth, has more international galleries showcasing
works. Collectors were out in force and, with the economic crisis just
a few miles away in the city, artists and gallery owners didn't seem to
be worrying.

Martin Parr
Martin Parr talks about his latest project which sees him photographing
the rich and famous around the world. We caught up with him at this
year's Frieze Art Fair.

Don and Mera Rubell, Rubell Family Collection. Part 1
Anna Somers Cocks talks with two of America's largest collectors of
contemporary art about why they are based in Miami, how they started
their collection and the legacy they hope to leave.

For more information and to sign up for a 1 month free trial please visit here

http://www.theartnewspaper.tv

Kim Joon, Bird Land-Armani (detail), 2008

Just got this great summary from Artkrush who will be on the scene again this year bringing you all the goodness to be found. Be sure to keep checking back as the month develops…

"Pockets will be substantially lighter at this year's Miami
Basel, but there will be no shortage of eye candy for those of us just
coming to look. As usual, Artkrush provides a tidy honor roll of our
personal favorites, with special attention paid to Art Basel Miami Beach, as well as Scope and Photo Miami contributor Julia Fullerton-Batten, a London photographer whose studies of adolescence picture girls looming larger than life, suspended in midair, and lost
in the uniform masses. Meanwhile, Artkrush editor Paul Laster connects with the Campana Brothers in Brazil to discuss the latest installment in their sci-fi furniture design series TransPlastic, included this year in Design Miami/. Across the bay from ABMB, we highlight the stylish counter-culture publications of
PictureBox — exhibiting at Nada Art Fair Miami — before leaving the Sunshine State altogether to review Sze Tsung Leong's photographs of Chinese suburbia in Los Angeles, and Roman Signer's slapstick videos in the Netherlands."

read the rest here…

As soon as I get done typing, I’m clicking over to Amazon to pre-order my copy.

See y’all tomorrow night!

Here are some highlights via Thrillist:

Primal Source: Surreal
images projected on this beach-based 40-foot wall of mist’ll move based
on the sounds of voices around the installation, allowing you to see
what "Dude, that’s totally a 40-foot wall of mist!" looks like.

The Amazing Mental Scope: Get hooked up with an EEG, then climb on the ferris wheel, and your brainwaves will be displayed
via flashing lights on a cylindrical LED display. Onlookers will enjoy
the soft glow of your Pleasure Center as you enjoy top-of-the-wheel
"special alone time".

Poetry Boat: Use
the provided phone to call the three poets on this off-shore boat, and
they’ll compose and read back to you on-the-spot custom poetry. Why are
they out on a boat? Because that’s where they put people with leprosy.

All
the while, there’ll be a kickin’ soundtrack from Djs like KCRW’s Garth
Trinidad and Postal Service member Jimmy Tamborello, aka Dntel –
himself so accustomed to late-night shenanigans he once took his own E.

Check out all the craziness at GLOW

"The high-ceilinged, light-filled studios on top of
Carnegie Hall have housed artists, musicians, and writers for more than
a century; now, the remaining tenants are fighting to stay."

read the rest here

[UPDATE: CNN reports that Ms. Sherman is holding firm! Way to go Editta!]

"They can pay me $10 million. I'm part of history," she said. "You want
to tell me they don't have enough rooms? They have a building of rooms.
This place is history, and I think Carnegie, the people running it, I
don't think they think about that."

Read the rest here

"By the Romantic period, the grotesque and the sublime were established as aesthetic categories, and the decadents of the late 19th century loved nothing more than a deathly consumptive countenance. In the wake of 20th-century avant-gardes, unadulterated beauty looks saccharine, immature or kitsch. We seduce only with our faults, wrote Baudrillard. Or as Johnny Rotten put it: there’s nothing so boring as a pretty face."

read the rest after the jump HERE

With a good selection of the labels we know and love, some of the more obscure and lesser-known brands, like the Italian shoemaker Marsèll, put the two-year old store a cut above the rest. They even have a great men’s jewelry collection that introduced me to the hard-to-find brand Alksndlia, a company that creates vintage rings and necklaces with old-world appeal. New in this fall are items from Raf Simons, Wings + Horns, Partik Ervell and Robert Geller. Next spring will include pieces from Tim Hamilton, Henrik Vibskov, Harmon and Wrath Arcane…"

via Cool Hunting

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