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Club Design and the Evolution of Desire, Seduction, and Utopia
Vitra Design Museum is exploring the vibrant history behind the connection between club culture and the realms of art and design for a forthcoming exhibition known as “Night Fever.” What does it mean for a museum to stage an exhibition...
Takashi Murakami & Virgil Abloh – ‘Future History’ @ Gagosian (London)
Coinciding with London Fashion Week 2018, Gagosian presents “future history,” collaborative works by Takashi Murakami and Virgil Abloh. Working together in Murakami’s Tokyo studio, Murakami and Abloh have produced a unique series of works...
China’s Youth Breaking
Through The Great Firewall. In the latest installment of Global Street Style, i-D gets to know Shanghai's bold new generation of artists, designers and musicians working their way around China's Great Firewall. With a strong focus...
CLUBBED
Rick Banks compiles a visual history of UK club culture Manchester-based designer Rick Banks has compiled three decade's worth of nightclub graphics into a new book. In a Dezeen exclusive, he picks out five of the most important examples...
“Draw the Raised Bridge”
Redescovered artwork by Banksy. Hull, England.
Blinded by the Light
James Turrell obliterates the senses in stunning new Mona wing Mona owner David Walsh calls his $32m new wing ‘a testimonial to the power of light as art’. When people talk about having a religious experience with contemporary art,...
Kraftwerk Win Grammy Award
Kraftwerk has won the Grammy for best dance/electronic album. The band already won a lifetime achievement award four years ago. https://youtu.be/L4hGaV5BA2M
Was Lil Peep Leading the Way for Sincerity in Rap Music?
Full disclosure: I only heard of Lil Peep for the first time on November 16, 2017, the day of his untimely death. I had no idea that emo had any sort of relevance in this day and age, let alone that someone was crossbreeding the genre...
Tree of Life
INVISIBLE-EXPORTS is proud to present Tree of Life, an exhibition of never-before-seen archival works by Genesis P-Orridge: a suite of 30 recently discovered magic marker drawings from 1974-1975. This is the fourth show of Genesis’s work...
“Just be Bono, but be less of an arsehole”
'The idea of a rock star is offensive' – meet Shame, Britain's most exciting new band. The shouty south Londoners write songs about politics, perverts, and their insecurities, and reject the laddism of the indie scene. But can they get...
A New Coke Classic
Last week in Atlanta, Neville Brody announced “TCCC Unity: The New Typeface for Coca-Cola.” It may seem incredible that Brody, once the maestro behind The Faceand Fuse magazines and the emblematic types of the late 80s and early 90s is...
Ten memorable moments from the history of cult magazine The Face
ALL IMAGES COURTESY OF NICK LOGAN/THE FACE ARCHIVE. You’ve likely seen the images of Kate Moss, bounding across the sand in the buff in one, her face scrunched up and beaming out from underneath a headdress in another. Shot by...
Away with DAF!
For the 40th anniversary of DAF, a lavish biography of the electro band and its great era in the early eighties pays tribute. No, he is not a nostalgic, the Gabriel "Gabi" Delgado: "Unfortunately, it is unfortunately - I say sadly - that...
Depeche Mode – Heroes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6yzrZfgQvI 40 years ago, David Bowie recorded "Heroes," a song that tells the story of two lovers who embrace in a kiss by the Berlin Wall. How the song was recorded gets wonderfully retold by producer...
Gay Party Music and Social Media Induced Narcissism
Casey Spooner and Michael Stipe penetrate queerdom. When Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner formed the electroclash duo Fischerspooner in 1998, they set out to open minds and expose the masses to worlds of art and performance through...
Interview with James Turrell
Next month, an extension to our gallery, called Pharos, will open, housing four new works by James Turrell, as well as works by Jean Tinguely, Charles Ross, Richard Wilson and Randy Polumbo. Read more about Pharos here. Elizabeth Pearce:...
Is Fashion Modern?
A FULL LIST OF THE 111 ITEMS in the MoMA exhibition. • 501 Jeans (Levi’s). 1947 example from the company archive • A-POC Queen Textile (Issey Miyake). Example from MoMA’s collection • Adidas Superstars. 1983 pair from the company archive...