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O-Town House is a Los Angeles-based exhibition space where art, history, and domestic intimacy collide

Amelie Varzi — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 14:49:00 +0000

O-Town House is a self-proclaimed flexible space. Not only is art shown and discussed there, but it is also the home of its founder, Scott Cameron Weaver, who has agreed to show us around. As the founder’s home, the space has a domestic intimacy typically lacking in the white cube mode of display that dominates

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Musician Sudan Archives pushes past personal, creative, and sexual limits

Aimee Shirley — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 15:20:08 +0000

It’s half-past eleven in the morning and Brittney Parks asks me for a glass of wine to get her into the right frame of mind. Would she like anything to eat, I ask? “Currywurst!” she exclaims. “Isn’t that a thing here [in Berlin]?” The smell of incense permeates the room; behind us she has neatly

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Laurie Anderson: Climate change, misogyny & saying “no”

root — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 03:00:30 +0000

“Is it going to be fun?” That’s Laurie Anderson’s criteria for accepting new projects and invitations. Improvising with Brian Eno; a talk about philosophy with writer Timothy Morton; an artist residency at NASA; staging a drone-based sonic experience with her late husband Lou Reed’s guitars at New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine; painting

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Link List #110: Japanese folk dance, Ghana’s debut pavilion, and the first female head of the African common market

root — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 11:52:59 +0000

Link List #110: Japanese folk dance, Ghana’s debut pavilion, and the first female head of the African common market Hopefully you enjoyed the reads from this week’s Link List, but if you’ve still got an internet itch to scratch, you can find more here. Also, be sure to check out FvF Mixtapes for some tracks

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Effortless design: Mark Randel’s architecture

root — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 04:00:58 +0000

After 23 years working with David Chipperfield Architects, Mark Randel now focuses on his eponymous studio in Berlin, where he has been working on his own projects since 2014. Randel is currently planning two housing projects in Munich that he developed with the British architect. One of them is situated in the city’s Herzogenpark, at

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Link List #99: Broken communities, a tunnel of fog, and how to defend the EU through conversation

Aimee Shirley — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 18:02:59 +0000

Hopefully you enjoyed the reads from this week’s Link List, but if you’ve still got an internet itch to scratch, you can find more here. Also, be sure to check out FvF Mixtapes for some tracks selected by our friends and favorite artists, and subscribe to our newsletter to stay up-to-date with FvF stories. Text:

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By subverting the expected artist Katie Stout takes a welcome humanistic approach to her art

root — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:22:08 +0000

In a vast warehouse in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn, Katie crafts couches out of various textiles and her signature lady lamps out of clay, celebrating womanhood with colors and textures in the form of functional pieces. Katie’s creative process is bold, experimental, and constantly evolving—during our studio visit she was feverishly finding a way

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How London print studio Jealous dominates the world of contemporary art editions

root — Tue, 09 May 2017 15:42:57 +0000

Occupying a four-storey corner building in Shoreditch, Jealous Studio is hard to miss. The Hollywood-style white lettered roof sign is the first giveaway. And if you neglect to see that, the side brick wall is painted with colorful letters of the alphabet, with Jealous not-so-discreetly printed in-between the letters ‘I’ and ‘K’. Inside, there’s an

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Clear cut: A look at Felicia Ferrone’s purposeful Milanese-inspired designs

root — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 03:42:32 +0000

Currently based in Chicago, Felicia’s brand fferrone allows her to constantly reinvent archetypes through her fundamental approach to design. Her architecture background translates seamlessly into her work as a designer. “The range of broad thinking is simply part of architectural practice, and they are one in the same. The two influence each other simultaneously, and

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FvF Mixtape #96 – Luca Venezia

root — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 22:30:02 +0000

Luca Venezia is one of those producers that always seems to be changing his identity. At FvF, we’ve known Luca for more than a decade, having heard his sound develop alongside his aliases. The world knew him first as Drop the Lime (DTL) when he was just starting out in New York City. Born of

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