Art 2.0 | The Art of Collecting Online
My article on online art buying is up on the great new culture website, The Aesthete.
Read the full article HERE.
Archived entries for Writing
Mike D’s Transmission LA at MOCA
When Mike D’s in the house, what you gonna do?
For Transmission LA : AV CLUB, The Beastie Boys’ Mike D curated a festival of visual art, musical performances, a pop up restaurant and cafe, and temporary art book shop that took over The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA for 17 days. Emily Anderson and I created the official AV CLUB magazine for the exhibition to serve as an insider’s guide to the talented artists in the show. Visitors could take the newsprint piece away with them to learn more about the show, and the publication was also distributed to popular restaurants, venues and retail shops around the greater Los Angeles area. It was a pleasure to work with contributors Peter Coffin, Cory Arcangel, Roy Choi, Jim Drain and Ara Peterson, Lauren Mackler, Sage Vaughn, Tom Sachs, Rob McKinley, Ben Jones, Justin Lowe and Jonah Freeman, Will Fowler, Mike Mills, David Kramer, Sanford Biggers, Takeshi Murata, and of course, Mike D himself.
Click to download a PDF of the publication HERE
More info on the exhibition HERE
The New, New Age
For the cover story of this month’s Malibu Magazine, I interviewed the ethereal actress and writer Brit Marling. Brit was one of my favorite interviews to do – she’s gracious, classy, and makes you think about the world in new ways.
Read the full article HERE
Protest Art and Cherry Blossoms in D.C.
A hundred years ago, the mayor of Tokyo gave 3,000 cherry trees to Washington D.C., and a colorful tradition was borne: the National Cherry Blossom Festival. This past weekend marked the centennial of the gift, and a year since Japan was hit with a devastating tsunami. For Interview Magazine I went to D.C. to check out a new tradition: ”5×5,” initiated by the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities, which asks five curators—Amy Lipton, Justine Topfer, Laura Roulet, Steve Rowell and Richard Hollinshead—to select five international artists to create temporary site-specific works throughout the city’s eight wards in vacant or dormant spaces.
Read the full article HERE.
Artist Alex Hank’s “Roomates”
For Dossier Journal, I wrote about Alex Hank’s large-scale portraits of everyone from Christopher Walken to Charlotte Rampling.
Read the full article HERE.
My “Hint Tip”: Stan Douglas’ Disco Angola
In 1974 New York City was on the verge of social and economic collapse, while underground, a new era of glamour and vanguard fashion was emerging, fueled by the latest music craze: disco. At the same time, across the globe in Angola, Africa, a civil war was breaking out. Two years prior, on the same continent, Cameroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango wrote what many consider the first disco hit.
Read full article HERE
Newsweek’s Women in the World Summit
For the past three months I’ve worked on this inspiring Summit presented by Newsweek & The Daily Beast taking place March 8 – 10 at Lincoln Center. How often do Madeleine Albright and Angelina Jolie share a stage?
Read more about the Summit HERE.
Swedish Fashion Week
For Interview Magazine I ventured over to one of my favorite cities - Stockholm – for Swedish Fashion Week.
The festivities kicked off with local style icon Noomi Rapace cutting the inaugural ribbon to announce the start of their 13th Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. A relative unknown until her breakout role in Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009), Rapace could be seen as a symbol for how the Swedes hope to position themselves on the global stage of fashion: emerging from the unfamiliar to be seen as a major contender amidst a growing number of fashion weeks around the world. Because of Rapace (and, though she’s not Swedish, Rooney Mara), brands like H&M, Acne, Filippa K and J. Lindeberg, the country is synonymous with style. The country’s minister of trade announced polemically this week that Sweden is “the most creative country in the world,” as measured by what’s called “The Global Creativity Index by the Martin Prosperity Institute.”
Read the full article HERE.
Happy New Year from The Usual and King + Grove
We (The Usual) partnered up with King + Grove to come up with the ten resolutions that promise to make 2012 the best year to date. Here they are, Happy New Year!:
