Here are some of the more sartorially demure audience members attracted to the Villa Warsaw on the many nights of activity, patiently waiting for the performative action to begin. They refrained from joining in with Romanian artist Miklos Szilard's pipe and paper arrow warfare that took over regions of the... [more]
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1974, is the title of this work on the door to a special Joseph Beuys room at the Museum Szutuki in Lodz, where all the Villa Warsaw participants have been invited today. A very special institution it was formed in the 1930s exclusively from artist's gifts, and has an exceptional... [more]
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British artist William Hunt opened proceedings at Villa Warsaw with his
solo performance which involves much red tape and a revelation.
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With a designer in place (and one who has a way with a crystal to boot), I was confident to approach that patron saint of progressive fashion design, Swarovski, to collaborate on the masks. With characteristic technological optimism, their Head Designer Pascale Montagner flung open the doors of their 'classified... [more]
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With 500 or so people receiving invites to the ball, it's our assumption that every milliner in town is going to be inundated with commissions. Meanwhile, we've got a team of people here in the studio who will also need their faces covered to go about the business of filming/webcam-ing/interacting... [more]
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Polish gallery Raster have organised eight August days of art, performance and concerts in a delapidated but extraordinary villa in Warsaw. Ten galleries from euroupe and the USA have been installing works throughout the eccentric rooms, and the live programme starts tonight on the villa stage.
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With the unseen Erwin Blumenfeld films project gathering speed and test edits and soundtracks being e-mailed from Adam Mufti to Olivier Alary's account and back again with some frequency, the Editorial Department's thoughts turn to 1940s Surrealism. Laura and I found ourselves at the late viewing of the NPG's Angus... [more]
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Today sees the launch of the sixth version of the SHOWstudio website. Unlike its five predecessors, this design is very much a development of what we started last April when we introduced the BLOG and the FORUM. We have been working since the beginning of the year on this set... [more]
LOVELETTER at London's Herald Street gallery, curated by artist Silke Otto Knapp, was a tightly knit group show with an emphasis on a hard, monochromatic female presence which came in the form of an ambiguous typewritten and framed love letters by Janice Kerbel or a hard torso-like Isa Genzken scupture... [more]
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What better way to round up my Singapore excursion than to pay a visit to the third ‘Guerilla Store’ that Comme des Garcons has opened in Singapore (the ‘Guerilla’ concept allows each shop to exist for only one year before it is relocated). Led by the hugely energetic Theseus Chan... [more]
All my impertinent questions about Greedy Ghosts have led me to a room above a grocery situated on a peripheral housing estate, where I stole a sneak preview of a local designer’s preparations for this month’s festival. Here you see the Art Director Chia Yang Huat painting the 3rd and... [more]
When the writer Jane Audas learned I was visiting Singapore, she kindly sent me in search of ‘paper clothes for dead people’, which she assured me I would find here. Not a great opening conversational gambit, or so I thought. But it turns out I’m in Singapore during the ‘Month... [more]
Those of you with superb memories will recall Nick Knight's shoot with Antony Hegarty, lead singer of Antony and the Johnsons at the end of last year. Proceedings began in November when we gave SHOWstudio viewers the unique opportunity to have their work featured in a Nick Knight photo shoot.... [more]
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Last night was the first degree show for LASALLE’s design MA and the college was out in support of an achievement of which they justifiably proud. Second from the right, the keen-eyed among you may recognise the silhouette of SHOWstudio contributor Hywel Davies, the college’s Programme Leader of Fashion Design... [more]
Well, if I’d known that MAs came with optional palm trees perhaps I may have re-thought braving it out in the Glasgow rain. I’m currently out in Singapore, acting as external examiner at ‘Asia Pacific’s Leading Arts Institution’, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts. It’s not quite the tropical junket that... [more]
Finally, we are pleased to launch our WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? spreads, featuring a selection of Nick and Simon Foxton's favourite contributions in response to their 'brutalising city' brief. Laid out by i-D's art director Dean Langley, the nineteen pages incorporate particularly impressive submissions from contributors from varying international... [more]
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You may remember a blog entry in May, referring to a forthcoming project on the legendary fashion photographer Erwin Blumenfeld's unseen film footage. Work on this is gathering pace, with Adam Mufti busily crafting the edit. We are also delighted to announce that composer (and SHOWstudio darling) Olivier Alary has... [more]
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Ten years ago, when I worked at the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, I used to receive all curatorial enquiries. I was well practiced, therefore, in opening packages containing treatises on the workings of flying saucers or full-frontal nude portraits from the world's most tattooed man (he claimed).... [more]
In the spirit of The Sound of Clothes season and its' various sound experiments, here are some recent sound-based events to crop up in the contemporary art world. The first one was a style-magazine celebrated collaboration between dark-partners Banks Violette and Sunn 0))) that drew a decidedly muso audience... [more]
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Wondering what's happened to Nick Ryan's audio? Well, it seems he's been waylayed at the British Motor Show, of course! See the note he sent us yesterday and get ready for the soundtrack, which sounds iminent:
With the British Motor Show now finished, you have my undivided attention! I spoke to... [more]
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Organised by legendary blogger Diane Pernet and photographer Dino Dinco, the travelling 'You Wear it Well' festival opens tonight at the CineSpace in Hollywood. The program features a selection of films that focus on fashion, style and beauty, from a range of contributors including Maison Martin Margiela, Bernhard Willhelm, Ruben... [more]
