Australian artist Bill Henson is the kind of maker that doesn’t need any introduction and has been among our favorite photographers for more than a decade. He is one of those artists whose talent you almost take for granted as he’s been around (and is regularly, often-times badly, mimicked) for so many years. Where instead you should always try to push yourself to take a minute and search for the feeling you once felt in the first, almost scary, encounters with his dark and brooding imagery — which he continuously has been producing over years, still living his mantra that he’s only as good as his last picture.

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Last week I had a coffee with Jean-Paul Willemse and he shared with me his super fun project S-W-E-A-T-S-H-O-P. A project in development with architecture as its starting point. Its first product is a series of customized and limited edition T-Shirts with portraits of international architects. The T-Shirts were presented as an art installation during the opening weekend of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016 and was show-cased during Art Basel 2016.

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Last month, one of our favorite abstract painters working today; London-based Kes Richardson, returned with an exciting new solo show, which took place at another favorite of ours from the English capital: the FOLD Gallery. With his new paintings, exclusively created for the exhibition given the moniker ‘FAIR GAME’ that ran for a month until the beginning of October, Richardson breaks out of the grid structure that formed the mold for the nine paintings for his debut solo exhibition named ‘Garden Paintings’ from 2013 (which became our introduction to his abstract work) showing a new depth in his abstractizations and the exploration of radical new imput on and even outside of the canvas — resulting in some of his most intimidating creations until date.

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This one ‘kept me awake’ my whole holiday. A story unlike any New York Times article previously published. It is much longer than the typical feature story; in print, it occupies an entire issue. The product of some 18 months of reporting, it tells the story of the catastrophe that has fractured the Arab world since the invasion of Iraq 13 years ago, leading to the rise of ISIS and the global refugee crisis. The geography of this catastrophe is broad and its causes are many, but its consequences — war and uncertainty throughout the world — are familiar to us all. Scott Anderson’s story gives the reader a visceral sense of how it all unfolded, through the eyes of six characters in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan. Accompanying Anderson’s text are 10 portfolios by the photographer Paolo Pellegrin, drawn from his extensive travels across the region over the last 14 years, as well as a landmark virtual-reality experience that embeds the viewer with the Iraqi fighting forces during the battle to retake Fallujah.

A must read! (thanks Jorn for sharing)

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Last week the Dutch denim company G-Star RAW announced the appointment of one of our favorite conceptual designers Aitor Throup as its Executive Creative Director. The designer has been consulting for the company for some time now, presumably with enough success to warrant a full time upgrade. After initial eyebrow raising the appointment has come to make sense. 

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After having started to work on an international scale soon after graduating, in 2012 Yann Kebbi really became an established name in illustration, when he published his first own book (after having done illustrations for books of other’s before) ‘Americanin – un chien à New York’ (‘Americanine – a dog in New York’), published by Editions Michel Lagarde, which was very well-received and has had numerous reprints by now. In 2014 another publication was released, again by Michel Lagarde, this time for his series ‘Howdy – dessins d’Amérique’ (‘Howdy – drawings of America’), after the project was exhibited at the famous Brussels gallery Chempaka. His latest series ‘Monotypes’ was published by 3 fois par jour this summer.

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This is a must see, and if you can’t see it now (it takes ‘only’ 3 hours) be sure to save it for later!

“We live in a time of great uncertainty and confusion. Events keep happening that seem inexplicable and out of control. Donald Trump, Brexit, the War in Syria, the endless migrant crisis, random bomb attacks. And those who are supposed to be in power are paralysed - they have no idea what to do. This film is the epic story of how we got to this strange place. It explains not only why these chaotic events are happening - but also why we, and our politicians, cannot understand them. It shows that what has happened is that all of us in the West - not just the politicians and the journalists and the experts, but we ourselves - have retreated into a simplified, and often completely fake version of the world. But because it is all around us we accept it as normal. But there is another world outside. Forces that politicians tried to forget and bury forty years ago - that then festered and mutated - but which are now turning on us with a vengeful fury. Piercing though the wall of our fake world.”

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In a collaboration between Jordi Carles at …,staat, Pol Pérez’ and Josep Román’s Barcelona-based design studio Affaire and Baumeister Jung: the beautiful book ‘Material Turn’ came to life. In it, the photographer Paul Jung and fashion designer Melitta Baumeister —who work on shared multidisciplinary creative projects as Baumeister Jung— hybridize their creative visions to become one, solidifying a moment in time — as beautiful volume-garments are casted out of an otherwise fixed material ànd by capturing the act of wearing it. Through exploration of these areas, the book portrays the relationships that exist between the two bodies, and the way touch and sight may alter the reader’s perception of an object’s qualities.

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An architectural historian at Georgetown University, Dr Mina Marefat explores the history of Le Corbusier’s Gymnasium. Simply beautiful!

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At the beginning of this year, one of our favorite artists working today; Rinus Van de Velde, presented the impressive ‘Donogoo Tonka‘ exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst in which he brought his one-of-a-kind, overtly rich artistic vision on the world around us —built up from many layers of signature charcoal strokes— to the contemporary art museum in Ghent. At the beginning of this month Van de Velde returned with already his next show (at the same time some of his work is also on display as we write this at Tim van Laere Gallery Gallery in the group show ‘Take Care, Amigo’), this time at his Amsterdam-based gallery tegenboschvanvreden — forming a new, not to miss, chapter in the ongoing display of unique talent from the self-described drawing-obsessed artist. For the exhibition, named ‘A Sunday as a Sunday’, the Antwerp-based artist has created a new series of drawings, focussing specifically on the theme of the antihero, having stopped the prominent portrayal of himself in his works, which marks an important new direction.

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This is my favourite sticker-pack in iMessage (and the reason I only want to use imessage and dump whatsapp) made by Molly Young, creative at Warby Parker and writer for New York Times Magazine and her partner Teddy Blanks.

Basically the only real emoticons. Ever.

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Currently listening this. An interesting podcast on Space Trash by 99% Invisible

Image and Poem: The TRAAC Satellite mentioned in the podcast.

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This one is totally feeding my obsession for flags: For most of the last 15 years, Cali Thornhill DeWitt’s name was only known in artistic circles, despite the fact that he’s been deep in pop culture’s (edgier) inner circle from a very young age. The Canadian-born grows up in the San Fernando Valley, goes on tour with Courtney Love’s band Hole as a youngster, even briefly lives in Seattle —working for the royal couple of grunge as Frances Bean Cobain’s nanny (plus appearing in drag on the actual cd of Nirvana’s ‘In Utero’ album)— and at the age of 19 he moves to New York City. Two years later he returns to Los Angeles, where he starts working as an A&R at Geffen and eventually co-founds his label Teenage Teardrops, alongside Bryan Ray in 2006 (which now a days also houses a publishing branch and is run by the artist together with his wife Jenna). In this period, halfway the first decade of the 21st century, DeWitt also begins expressing himself visually, soon finding a signature genre of visual poetic work, which we feel could be best described as Gangster Holzer, also strongly reminding of the inspirational work of Eike Koenig. From that period on the multitalent has been creating a diverse field of output: from music video’s, album artwork, photography projects to radio shows and numerous publications — establishing himself as an artist with the cool of a rock star, always pushing himself in finding new areas for his artistic expressions.

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A super interesting conversation between Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons: ‘There’s something wrong about this idea of big brands.’ 

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Six months have passed and our good friend Olaf Hussein has returned with a new seasonal offering, which will be available online and in his shop on the Prinsengracht 491 in Amsterdam from today. For his Autumn/Winter 2016 collection, the Amsterdam-based designer takes a trip to the deep South of the United States of America, or more specifically, to the world as portrayed in the iconic moody feature film ‘Paris, Texas’. This cinematic masterpiece from 1984, directed by Wim Wenders and shot by Dutch cinematographer Robby Müller, forms the main inspiration for the new seasonal creations. Where Hussein’s former collection felt like the conclusion of the starting period of the brand, which asked for the (successful) establishment of his name (literally) — the new collection shows a new kind of ambition in the products being released under the OLAF HUSSEIN label, going beyond the earlier (necessary, no doubt) road of prominent branding into the realm of, what we feel are, interesting contemporary pieces marrying technical features and sharp minimal silhouettes.

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