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These days Larissa Sansour’s continued efforts to express the reality and complexity of life in Palestine seems to have met with extreme opposition in the form of censorship. The Nation Estate project is a sci-fi photo series conceived in the wake of the Palestinian bid for nationhood at the UN. Three preliminary sketches have been [...]

“King For A Day” Giclee print on 330gsm 100% archival cotton paper. Dimensions: 12″ x 12″ Signed & Numbered Edition of 50 Price: $40 + Shipping Available from Thursday 12th January @ 5pm (UK). http://1xrun.com/runs/King_For_A_Day MEGGS ARTIST BIO Initially recognized for his multi-layer street stencils and posters, Meggs has become a well respected member of [...]

We are excited to announce that two amazing debut acts will start and finish the 16 week-long series of live gigs under the Balearic stars at Ibiza and Mallorca Rocks. Kicking things off in June will be one of last years biggest breakthrough artists Ed Sheeran. With a number 1 album and 3 smash hit [...]

Just when you start thinking you’ve pretty much seen and heard everything, 3 girls squirt you with Baileys from false cow-udders while singing about LSD at a tempo exceeding 4000 beats per minute. It’s one of those moments that – regardless whether you actually like it or not, or whether it induces long dormant foaming-fits [...]

The Ghosts Borne from the tragedy of the suicide of lead singer Charles Haddon – Ou Est le Swimming Pool, vocalist/guitarist Alex Starling decided in 2010 to form a new band. Together with drummer Ian Palmer, Rayna Ferner & Alex Sharman on keyboards and Dan Whiffin on guitar they are The Ghosts, a London collective [...]

Paper Dollhouse is the spooky pseudonym for the music of Rayographs singer-songwriter Astrud Steehouder, who self-recorded, produced and released her debut album, A Box Painted Black earlier this year. It’s a collection of music that perhaps lacks the spit-n-polish of a genuine studio affair, given it was recorded entirely in her London home, between kitchen [...]

Street Artists are creating a new benchmark of modernism through the history of their pranks. Street artists are having a heavy impact on the art world as they convey critiques of political and socioeconomic issues. These modern-day Picasso’s and Da Vinci’s of graffiti have a unique ability to create awareness through cryptic and colorful campaigns. [...]

By Mark W. Smith, Detroit Free Press Facebook’s long-delayed massive overhaul to user profiles, dubbed Timeline, is finally available for all of the social networks more than 800 million users worldwide. Timeline, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg first showed off in September, is a complete rethinking off a user’s profile page. It attempts to use the [...]

December 17, 2011 New York, New York WHOA Magazine’s Winter issue is slated to be on the newsstand Jan 17th Worldwide. Check out the exclusive cover story featuring Anthony Gonzalez better known as M83. This issue is by far the best work from the team at WHOA. In comparison, they have finally fully blossomed; shedding [...]

- Diana Zahn-Storey to return as Executive Producer – - Ceremony to premiere on IFC, Saturday, February 25 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT – LOS ANGELES (December 13, 2011) – Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, announced that Seth Rogen will serve as host for [...]

Nick Cave announces, “That’s it for Grinderman.” By Carrie Battan, December 12, 2011 10:25 a.m. CT Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds side project Grinderman is apparently no more, following an unceremonious breakup announcement at this weekend’s Meredith Music Festival in Australia. According to Vine, at the end of the band’s set, Nick Cave told [...]

The Art Institute of Chicago will bring a little bit of New York to the Windy City when it projects Andy Warhol’s 1964 film Empire (above) on the façade of the nearby Aon Center. Shot over six hours, but stretched to eight, the video of the Empire State Building will be shown on the upper [...]

Jeremy Cox and Jigmae Baer started Royal Baths without a plan in mind but soon the foundation for their writing found inspiration from Cox’s interest in the alternate and open tunings of delta blues, their shared fascination in the African rhythm of early Chicago blues, and Baer lyrically attempting to reflect with black humor and [...]

By Anthony “Train” Caruso In a recent conversation with my good friend Tyler Glenn he took the time to give me a retrospect and tipped me off to the new iTunes release, “SHE”LL MAKE YOUR LIPS HURT” Out on December 20th. Make sure you check it out. Here’s a little ditty on my friends. Like [...]

Iconic travel photography combines with an ethical & eco t-shirt for a modern, urban look. From East to West, North to South, across continents, across language barriers, through fashion, photography and travel, The Lost Travel TShirt Company http://losttraveltshirt.com/ combines these essential elements of a global citizen to create an adventurous, free-spirited and iconoclastic t-shirt collection. [...]

Bad Penny is the debut album from Spectrals aka 21 year old Louis Jones. Mixing ingredients of pop, soul, doo wop, and a garage rock ballad, it sounds vintage but current, while the Yorkshire lilt in his voice (a result of his hometown, Heckmondwike) places him firmly in the UK, rather than Detroit. Inspired by [...]

John Baldessari, the Los Angeles-based conceptual artist who, by all accounts,dominated the New York art world in 2010, is back in a big way, advertising his funny, tongue-in-cheek wares with a brand new work on the High Line billboard at 18th Street and Tenth Avenue. The new piece, “The First $100,000 I Ever Made” (2011), [...]

Turning Over a New Leaf By Lilly Wei Posted 12/06/11 When the Ming succumbed to the Qing, many rebel scholar-artist-officials became landscape painters who forged new, singular styles It doesn’t look like an exhibition about dissent, at least not to contemporary eyes accustomed to more rousing images. There are no weapons, tanks, bombed-out ruins, images [...]

‘El Camino’ should keep Black Keys on road to success By Malcolm X Abram / Beacon Journal pop music writer Beacon Journal pop music writer Published: December 5, 2011 – 12:02 AM The Black Keys Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney.(Photo by Danny Clinch) The Black Keys have come quite a ways in the decade since [...]

The Protomen are one of those bands that live the indie ethic and embrace modern technology like the internet to help them get along in the music world.  If you haven’t heard of them, you don’t spend enough time on the internet.  The Protomen are a rock opera indie band known to create concept albums [...]