The Queen
by Chacha for Sang Bleu, 2008
who passed it gracefully
to
Lingering Whispers
She is also the cover
of the Lingering Whispers catalogue
due on the 15th of April 2010
the
countdown
has
began
!
Categories: exhibition, publication
Tagged: catalogue, Chacha, cover, design, group exhibition, Lingering Whispers, queen, Sang Bleu, tattoo
On the backdrop of the stage, an erotic film of a beautiful model with a snake writhing across her breast is projected. Enormous predatory robot cameras prowl the catwalk filming the parade of models that stalk by in their evermore exquisite, otherworldly ensembles, balanced on vertiginous ‘armadillo shoes’ like space-age chopines. Occasionally the cameras turn [...]
Categories: exclusive, exhibition, fashion, word
Tagged: Alexander McQueen, Beauty, Christina Kruse, Christophe Haleb, contemporary art, crypt, Cyrille Weiner, Dom Agius, dress, Elsa Schiaparelli, Erick Soler, exhibition, fashion, fashion editor, Glamour, Harper's Bazaar, Hollywood, Katarina Mootich, Lingering Whispers, Louis Vuitton, opulence, photograph, Plato's Atlantis, Predrag Pajdic, provocative, Ricci/Forte, Salvador Dali, Sang Bleu, Sarah Bailey, St Pancras Church, Wallis Simpson
Sang Bleu was initiated in 2004 in London as an attempt to create a publication proposing a contemporary and experimental vision of modern culture and style. Rejecting the usual categorizations and segmentations, Sang Bleu’s statement is to use Art, Fashion, Sociology, Literature, but also – more unexpectedly – Tattooing, Body Modification, Fetish and other subcultures [...]
Categories: exhibition, publication
Tagged: art, body modification, contemporary, culture, exhibition, fashion, fetish, Lingering Whispers, literature, publication, Sang Bleu, sociology, style, tattoo, tattooing, xperimental
Michael Stevenson Gallery is presenting Steven Cohen’s first solo exhibition in South Africa in more than 10 years. In this decade Cohen, who has lived in France since 2003, has become internationally recognised for his performance art, yet his work has been seen infrequently at home and in the gallery context. This exhibition will refocus [...]
Categories: contemporary art, exhibition
Tagged: art, Cape Town, Chandelier, exhibition, Golgotha, Jewish, Life, Michael Stevenson Gallery, performance, portrait, shot, solo show, South Africa, Steven Cohen
If Lisette Model took up photography as a way of earning a living, it is also true that she always fought for her own subjects, rather than simply carry out the assignments given by editors. She believed that for a photograph to be successful its subject had to be something that “hits you in the [...]
Categories: exhibition, photography
Tagged: camera, camerawork, Cristina Zelich, Elizabeth McCausland, exhibition, Jeu de Paume, Lisette Model, photograph
Since 1999 London centred architect and urbanist, Tapio Snellman has mostly been preoccupied with co-running his all-over-the-place disciplinary creative practice, Neutral. The vast experience of producing architecture related media and fetishising over the built environment and its effect on people, has crystallised in video installations and animations, in which architectural space and urban landscape is [...]
Categories: artwork, exclusive, exhibition
Tagged: Elsa, Elsa Alexandra Snellman, exhibition, imaginary, installation, Lingering Whispers, Memory, old, painting, Tapio Snellman, unfinished
Marian Goodman Gallery is presenting an exhibition of two new works by award-winning British artist and film maker Steve McQueen until the 6th of March 2010. On view in the North Gallery is Giardini, 2009, a major work first shown at the 53rd International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, 2009, when McQueen represented the [...]
Categories: contemporary art, exhibition, film
Tagged: contemporary art, exhibition, film, Giardini, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, Static, Steve McQueen, Turner Prize
The British Library is the home of the first written version of Alice in Wonderland, hand penned and illustrated by Lewis Carroll in 1864. This year, the very latest interpretation of this brilliant imaginative work, Disney’s film directed by Tim Burton, is set to illuminate screens the world over.
The Library comes together with Disney to [...]
Categories: book, conversation, exhibition, film
Tagged: Alice, Alice in Wonderland, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, British Library, Christopher Lee, Colleen Atwood, costume, curiouser, design, Disney, genius, Joe Roth, Lewis Carroll, Mark Salisbury, Matt Lucas, Michael Sheen, Richard Zanuck, Tim Burton
Wren Britton was born the year David Bowie released Ziggy Stardust… He spent his youth either up in trees reading or making mini-terarriums from Tic Tac boxes for insects he found in his yard. He now passes his time making jewellery and accessories from bones, feathers, hair and objects lost or finally found. He also [...]
Categories: artist, exhibition, jewellery
Tagged: design, exhibition, fashion, gmalour, jewellery, Lingering Whispers, New York, Wren Britton
