Category: culture
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The Museum That Travels
I saw this on the Wallpaper Twitter feed (disclosure: I work for the company that produces Wallpaper). And I'm not sure I've seen anything quite like it before – an art/architecure/brand fusion resulting from a meeting and subsequent collaboration between Karl Lagerfeld and architect Zaha Hadid. The Chanel Contemporary Art Container is a mobile art…
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Life With No Ads
Gregor Graf is currently exhibiting a series of works at the Austrian Cultural Forum called ‘Hidden Town’. In it, he’s used photoshop to remove all traces of signage and language from photographs of London Streets. So you end up with images stripped off people, traffic, street signs and all commercial paraphernalia. As a result, once…
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Tate Modern Extension
I was taken on a tour this morning of the site where the new extension to the Tate Modern is to be built. Planning has now been granted for a pretty spectacular new building designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron on the south side of the existing gallery. It’s designed to expand the exhibition…
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The Worst Album Covers…Ever
I’m a big fan of Jeff Bridges. I love his work and he has an excellent website which I’ve mentioned before with some great stuff on it including a link to The Complete Works of Shakespeare (yes, really) and this little gem – a collection of some of the worst album covers you are ever…
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A Chalk Farm Drawing Room
The "Chalk Farm Maid", one of Banksy’s most famous stencils had an addition last Sunday night – a fireplace – which someone had thoughtfully tacked onto the wall. Unfortunately it was unceremoniously removed faster than you can say "Upstairs Downstairs". What a shame. Wouldn’t it have been more fun to leave it there and see…
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Too Much Cream
This post on the Word Magazine blog raises an interesting point about whether the ‘clunkers’ on great albums (the songs that are a bit sub-standard in comparison to the rest of the track list) actually serve a useful purpose. The C-list songs, goes the argument, are essential listening "because they make the classic songs that…
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There’s No Place Like Heima
Right at the back of the new "Most Contagious 2007" report from the guys at Contagious Magazine (it’s worth a read if you haven’t seen it and you can download it here), in the "Ones to Watch" section, is a great example of a band (brand) looking after it’s core audience whilst reaching out to…
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Speechless Without Writers
I love the whole series of these which have been produced to support the ongoing WGA dispute. The website and video channel not only show actors, directors and writers coming together in solidarity in support of the WGA, it brings a whole new angle to industrial disputes… http://www.brightcove.tv/playerswf
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Kerry’s Mix
My friend (and aspiring DJ) Kerry has put together a mix which you can download as a podcast here. She describes it as "A musical journey from ska to disco with a side order of soul". Says Kerry: "I cracked open a bottle of beaujolais and unleashed myself upon the decks last night. The mix…