Advanced Beauty
Maxalot - Amsterdam
Event: 8/4/08- 8/18/08
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Sometimes a night out on the town is all about seeing if sparks fly. Or smoldering in the face of an old flame. Or just another excuse to dress extension cord optional. Like Hussein Chalayan’s Spring/Summer 2008 collection featuring laser beams and Swarovski crystals, rhyme & reason’s illuminated pieces assure you’ll be spotted from across a crowded room →

Shepard Fairey and MoveOn Announce
New Pro-Obama Art Contest
Winner’s Work To Be Shown At “Manifest Hope Art Gallery”
During Democratic National Convention

MoveOn.org, artist Shepard Fairey and Upper Playground announced today that they will join forces to host the “Manifest Hope Art Gallery” (manifesthope.com) at the Democratic National Convention. The gallery, open from Sunday, August 24 through Thursday, August 28 2008, will feature both known and new artists all supporting Barack Obama for President. →

Paper Tiger is excited to have an exclusive print release this week from Camilla d’Errico titled “Malificent.” An edition of only 25, this print is sure to be a collectors dream. Fresh off a sold out solo exhibition at LA’s Copro Nason gallery, d’Errico is gearing up for so much more - starting with taking over Paper Tiger! →

ASSUME VIVID ASTRO FOCUS: asymmetrical voluminous ass fuckers, 2007
Peres Projects - Berlin
Event: 8/02/08
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Originally screened during PS1 project Concrete Waves at Art Basel Miami Beach, this video is a collection of home made videos found on youtube of people dancing. Some dance alone in their rooms, other in competitions or clubs. Vogue, tektonic, jump, booty, krumping, popping and locking. The video will be mixed with Quartzo Power (2008), by Assume Vivid Astro Focus collaborators Rodrigo Garcia Dutra and Kleber Matheus. →

From the Evil Monito archives:
Interview with Kostas Seremetis.
Originally published Winter 2003.

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www.evilmonito.com/archives/017/kostas/1.htm

Visionaire presents issue 54 SPORT, a wearable publication. Using the most advanced printing technologies, Visionaire produces full-coverage, full-color, photographically-printed Lacoste polo shirts featuring artwork by photographers Nick Knight, Peter Lindbergh, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin with M/M (Paris), Phil Poynter; artists Thomas Demand, Thomas Ruff, T.J. Wilcox; designer Karl Lagerfeld; filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar; musicians David Byrne, Michael Stipe; and painter Richard Phillips. →

David Chan: Hybrid Society - Chapter I : The Infant Cycle
Art Seasons - Beijing
Event: 8/02/08 - 8/24/08
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ART SEASONS is proud to present, Hybrid Society - Chapter I: The Infant Cycle, a brand new solo exhibition by Singaporean artist, David Chan. Not only is this David’s first ever exhibition in Beijing, David is also the first Singaporean artist to exhibit in a solo exhibition here. →

Calling all friends of the arts,

The Collaboration Foundation (a non-profit organization) is one of the finalist for a $10,000 online grant from Ideablob. They now need 1,000 friends to vote online this week in order to win the much needed start-up funds. Can you take 30 seconds to help?

Please vote here:
http://ideablob.com/ideas/1247-The-Collaboration-Foundation-C →

Terence KOH: 4′26″
Peres Projects - Berlin
Event: 7/26/08 
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4′26″ is a music video of sorts. A lone naked figure, wearing high black patent leather boots and long black hair thrashes his body about, enticing the viewer but never fully committing to what it he is offering… →