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This year, the Stockholm Film Festival featured movies that look at how new technologies such as fake news and A.I. affect our society. There was also a spotlight on new British films, and it honored Ethan Hawke, Ken ...
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Mike Kelley (b. 1954) was a figure of the early American underground interested in topics such as institutional power, the working-class, philosophy, and pop culture in American society – with a particular fixation on...
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The Architectural Journey Frank Gehry at the Fondation Louis Vuitton is an itinerary that takes place in a vertical structure on the east side of this flamboyant building, which rises above Paris’ Bois de Boulogne lik...
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A hidden gem in the surroundings of Stockholm archipelago along the Baltic sea, the Bay in Värmdö, Artipelag is at the conjunction of Scandinavian nature, art, and design. A visit here is a unique experience in the be...
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Contemporary Copenhagen [CC] is hosting Yet, It Moves! until the end of 2023, from May 12th to December 30th. This group exhibition is the result of two years of work between international artists and the world’s most...
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FIELD is a London-based creative studio focused on the interaction between design and technology. They create digital art, especially working with physical spaces, interactive and immersive design experiences for top ...
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Swedish product designer and mastercraftsman Love Hultén whose designs have gone viral – especially on Instagram – takes game consoles and synthesizers to the next level because of their wacky, playful personalized d...
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Swedish artist and entrepreneur Karl Grandin is a good old friend of SHIFT who together with Björn Atldax collaborated with us for our curated monthly cover while working at their former design studio Vår back in 2009...
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American contemporary pop artist and collagist Barbara Kruger (b.1945) has developed her own style of art by combining poetry and politics with an advertising or propaganda vibe – recognizable from its bold declarativ...
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Hudson Yards is one of the newly renovated neighborhoods in Manhattan focused on modern urban life and biodiversity. It's located in the southwest side of Midtown between Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen and is home to a nu...
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After three years on stand-by, Flow Festival in Helsinki kicked off again August 12th - 14th with an international line up – including Gorillaz, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Florence + The Machine, Michael Kiwanuka, Mar...
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Many album covers have become as iconic as the music and artists they portrayed thus contributing to shaping the identity of these stars and the record labels themselves. Emphasizing the central role photography plays...
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This year’s winner of the SHIFT Award at Unknown Asia 2021 is Ball Piyaluk Benjadol. Her work “Loved and Gone Series” – miniatures that combine antiques, old toys, daily necessities, knitted work, and even hair – is t...
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The MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome is located below the courtyards of the former Birra Peroni brewery (the area between Via Reggio Emilia, Via Nizza and Via Cagliari was acquired by them in 1911), in the R...
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Founded by long-term friends Carl Ollson and Felix von Bahder, Swedish sustainable fashion mavericks Deadwood™ have raised the bar in the leather clothing game internationally. They started off working with fac...
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The renowned international photography contest World Press Photo 2021 (WPP) kicked off in several cities around Europe this fall. Founded in 1955 in Amsterdam, the institution’s main focus is to address the importance...
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Barely two weeks before Sweden put an end to any type of restrictions for covid-19, between September 17th and 19th the fifteenth edition of Market Art Fair 2021, the independent art fair of Stockholm, took place at t...
