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FELIEKE VAN DER LEEST
An emerging artist from Holland, who plays with animal, chasing, and knit at will. Felieke van der Leest, Pregnant Panda Bearmaid (2007) I felt like completely being lost. Wondering about what kind of world t...
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An emerging artist from Holland, who plays with animal, chasing, and knit at will. Felieke van der Leest, Pregnant Panda Bearmaid (2007) I felt like completely being lost. Wondering about what kind of world t...
HAPPENING
Luxury and beauty shows are en vogue. There are the ones for “the bold and the beauty”, such as Luxury please in Vienna’s Hofburg Imperial Palace; and there are the ones for the “mainstream”, such as La Donna in Vienn...
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Cristian Turdera has created a dream world for us. When I entered his place, I found myself in the middle of one of those children’s books, the ones you won’t let go, those books that will remain forever inside your d...
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Hong Kong’s Microwave Festival has come a long way since its foundation in 1996, and made perhaps its biggest splash yet with 2007’s edition, “Luminous Echo”. As the festival was completely rebranded in 2006, and in 2...
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The venue was absolutely huge. If you go there with your friends and get separated form them, that's it. It's quite unlikely to see them ever again. I got lost for a few times actually.. The first booth I looked in...
HAPPENING
Once a year the CCCB at Barcelona is showing an exhibition with young and upcoming artists from all over the world. This year's subject is "Babylon", here construed as the artists' view on today's or tomorrow's megaci...
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Newcastle upon Tyne, usually shortened to Newcastle, is the largest city in North-East England. The night view around the Tyne river always attracts tourists, even the Londoners who are usually happy with Thames. Th...
HAPPENING
The city has been overtaken by signposts of Batman and Robin. A year after Singapore’s first Biennale comes the second Singapore Design Festival. Event venues were identified through signposts of the dynamic duo in br...
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Brick Lane, in the heart of East London, has long been known as a place where London's connoisseurs of vintage fashion can go to find the next treaure to add to their collection. A place with a kaleidoscope of differe...
COLETTE
Guillaume Salmon is PR for colette since more than 5 years, enjoying to be in the middle of different culture and microcosms... From the west coast of France, he is a Parisian since ever and for ever for one reason, b...
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The first contemporary museum located in the suburbs of Paris, MAC/VAL (Musee d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne) is now commemorating its 2nd anniversary. In Japan you may imagine a quiet residential area when...
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The Otakulab team comes from documentary and videoart background. The tandem formed by the italian artist Francesco Jodice and american artist Kal Karman straddles video art and sociological documentary seeking the bl...