British collector Steve Goldman, who owns about 300 records that can lay claim to having some of the world’s worst cover art, is staging an exhibition of the Worst Album Covers in the World. Goldman is raising money for charity with his exhibition. Guardian reports on the funny story.
Berlin’s mythical temple of bassy industrial techno, the Berghain club is reopening today as an art gallery, Guardian reports. Studio Berlin exhibition contains works by 115 international Berlin-based artists that were produced in the city during lockdown. The idea of the exhibition was “to send a message that Berlin’s cultural life is still very much alive”.
Grimes is preparing a new online exhibition 'Selling Out', where she’ll be selling drawings, prints, photographs, and conceptual pieces, Bloomberg reports. The most notable piece in the collection is a conceptual piece, also called 'Selling Out', which finds Grimes selling part of her soul for the “best offer”. The idea behind it: "'Selling Out' is executed as a contract in which Grimes sells a fraction of her soul, formalizing the idea that every time an artist sells a piece of their art, part of the soul is sold with it".
Stella Wedell from Berlin was 12 when she went on a Spanish holiday and had her walkman with a cassette with Pet Shop Boys, Shaggy and Bob Marley on it. She lost the tape, either on the Costa Brava or in Mallorca, only to be reunited with the cassette tape quarter of a century later at an exhibition by the British artist and photographer Mandy Barker, who specialises in creating pieces out of plastic marine debris. According to Guardian, Barker had picked up the tape from the Playa de Barlovento beach in Lanzarote, hundreds of miles away from where it was lost, had it restored – and made playable. Apart from the almost-romantic side of the story, there is the ecological side, as prof Richard Thompson, the head of the international marine litter research unit at Plymouth University, said - "the fact it has survived intact shows the durability of plastic and the threat it can pose to the marine environment”.
Berghain is probably the most famous club in the world today. It all began in 1989 with gay sex club Snax - the same people went on to create Berghain. A new book No Photos on the Dance Floor! Berlin 1989 - Today and an exhibition of the same name capture the period from those […]
Influential and famous British record company Factory Records - home to Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays, James - is celebrating its 40th anniversary with two box-sets and two major exhibitions, NME reports. Box-set ‘Use Hearing Protection’ compiles the first 10 records and memorabilia to receive a Factory Records catalogue number - including Joy Division’s […]
London gallery for contemporary art on July 12 is opening Sweet Harmony: Rave Today, a retrospective exhibition that “will recapture the new world that emerged from the acid house scene and narrates the ascendancy of rave culture with the youth of today”. Saatchi rave exhibition will feature multimedia installations, audiovisual works and photo galleries, including […]
DJ, musician, smiley aficionado, and now curator Fatboy Slim has a new art exhibition devoted to the - smiley. Slim, aka Norman Cook, has amassed possibly the largest collection of smiley ephemera in the world, which is now to form the centrepiece of an exhibition, Smile High Club, opening 21 June, in Lisbon. Items include […]
NME reports about this awesome music project that you can walk into, smell, watch, hear and touch. Beyond The Road interprets UNKLE’s ‘The Road: Part I’ and ‘The Road: Part II/Lost Highway’, it's set at the top floor of London’s Saatchi Gallery, where you, well, experience it. "What 'Beyond The Road' offers is a tantalising glimpse into […]
“It was all against the systemic control of the music system. This idea of provocation in the streets, the field of punk was a social protest, elements of that still exist" - the curator, Andrew Blauvelt, says to Guardian, about new exhibition Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976–1986 about graphic […]
What may be the most comprehensive exhibition ever assembled about the history of electronic music is taking place in France’s capital in the Philharmonie de Paris. Guardian's Alexis Petridis visited the Electro: From Kraftwerk to Daft Punk, and liked it a lot: "Two years in the making, Electro is a pretty overwhelming audiovisual experience". So […]
