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Monthly Archives: October 2009

Jet Set Saturdays: Andy Golub Bodypainted Topless Models at the Village Halloween Parade

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Image credit. Our New York City pick this week is the Village Halloween Parade, in particular the body art of Andy Golub. Now, because the parade doesn’t start until 7pm we don’t have any images or commentary, but in the mean time we’re happy to fill you in. Every year since 1973 when a local [...]

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Jet Set Saturday’s: Dave Mckenzie at Susanne Vielmetter

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Dave Mckenzie “”On Premises” installation view. After last night’s reception at Dimensions Variable for the closing of their inaugural exhibition “Build Up” we found ourselves in the mood to savor more dying light. Tossing our options, as is our want, we chose to pass up the last day of Adam Ross’s show of abstract painting [...]

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Friday’s Hairy Eyeball: Terence Riley resigns from MAM, Egyptian Mummy found at Bass Museum, Triple C’s album release

Friday, October 30, 2009

Image credit. Friday’s Hairy Eyeball – Keeping it local. Terence Riley resigns from Miami Art Museum, but will continue to advise with regard to the museum’s 220 million dollar new home in downtown [via New York Times] in related the museum reveals their plans for the new space to be designed by Swiss architecture firm [...]

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Hump Day Cool Finger: Oakley C Six Carbon Fiber Sunglasses

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Machining a solid block of carbon fiber may not be the best way to use the material from an engineering standpoint but cutting across the fibers is what lends Oakley’s flagship C SIX its unique look. Before reading further, read this. The extremely well crafted, but information deficient text that you just read was the [...]

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Re-Viewing Black Mountain College

Monday, October 26, 2009

Beauty and the Beast (Francine du Plessix Gray and Joel Oppenheimer), 1951. A few weeks ago nearly a hundred academics, artists, educators and critics descended upon the University of North Carolina’s Asheville campus for an on-site conference examining the legacy of Black Mountain College, the first since the institution’s closure in 1957. Founded in 1933 [...]

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The Sunday Video: Kittiwat Unarrom Body Bakery

Sunday, October 25, 2009

With Halloween just around the corner this weeks Sunday Video is appropriately festive. Meet the work of Kittiwat Unarrom, a Thai art student and son of a baker who since 2006, in a stroke of genius worthy of a tourism major has exponentially ballooned the popularity his family’s business in Ratchaburi, Thailand, by luring scores [...]

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