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JUST PUBLISHED! 2000 Words: Paul Chan

2000 Words: Paul Chan just published! Paul Chan’s varied practice includes paintings, drawings, video animations, and font design, as well as critical writing. The characters in his works are animated beings, jerking and stuttering as they are violently thrust into the clumsy reel—or “real”—of history. Chan explores the intellectual and sexual animus that courses through […]

UPCOMING BOOKS IN THE “2000 WORDS” SERIES

      New books in the 2000 Words series to be published in the Summer of 2015! Stay tuned for the books on the work of Maurizio Cattelan, Robert Gober, Jeff Koons, Tim Nobe & Sue Webster, Chris Ofili and Aleksandra Waliszewska!

ΦIRMA GYPSY GLOBALES – WORKSHOP

Friday, September 26, 2014 at 18:00 Benaki Museum, Pireos St., Athens Through her work Φirma Gypsy Globales, Greek artist Maria Papadimitriou creates a story around the fashion of Gypsies using objects and clothes from Roma camps. More specifically, the work revolves around the life and customs of the Gypsies and develops a hybrid narrative that […]

“everybody’s contemporary”: An Online Collective Project

“everybody’s contemporary” is an online collective project (www.destefashioncollection1to8.gr/) that runs parallel to the DESTEFASHIONCOLLECTION: 1 to 8 exhibition. Encountering the destefashioncollection items and questioning “the tensions, affinities, and distance” between art and fashion that the exhibition curatorial has noted, this DIY sartorial project is an open-format, unscripted, collectively authored experimentation. Each participating member – everyday people with […]

THE LEGACY OF ITALIAN RADICAL DESIGN: A CONVERSATION

May 7, 2014 between 17:30 and 20:00 The Standard, High Line (848 Washington Street, New York, NY) To celebrate the publication of 1968: Italian Radical Design, ARTBOOK|DAP and PIN-UP Magazine present Dakis Joannou, President of the DESTE Foundation, in conversation with Dennis Freedman, Creative Director of Barneys New York, on the legacy of Italian Radical […]