There’s something about the joyful psychedelia of Animal Collective that gets us all wide-eyed and giddy (and maybe a little dry-mouthed, but that’s a minor side effect). So you can only imagine how excited we are to let the band guide us through a totally immersive sensory experience at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Opposites: fascination and repulsion, physical and emotional, personal and mythical. Exhibiting at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal are a trio of Canadian artists – Marcel Dzama, Etienne Zack, and Luanne Martineau – whose latest works explore complex human dichotomies.
Amongst the bright lights and hot starlets of Hollywood, it’s easy for promising young actors to lose their way. But talented and charismatic rising talents Ezra Miller, Carter Jenkins, and Charlie Bewley won’t let burgeoning fame distract them from their silver screen dreams.
The Force is strong with this one: the Star Wars legacy has lasted over four decades, with incarnations of the franchise from stop-motion series Robot Chicken to the formation of Jediism (no joke, it’s a faith based and dedicated to the practice and philosophies of a Jedi knight). This month ushers in the most coveted Star Wars item yet: adidas Originals x Star Wars sneakers.
This isn’t a coffee-table book inspired by Eddie Izzard’s Dress to Kill, instead, the likes of Richard Avedon’s photograph of China Machado to Catherine Deneuve’s Belle de Jour, are a few of the likely inspirations taken by François Nars for Nars’ 15 x 15 anniversary book. Celebrating 15-years in the industry, Nars has published a book dedicated to its successful line of beauty products and the icons who inspire the label; and The Block is madly in love with all 40-pages of it.
We’ve got our hands all over Five Dials. Well, not literally; this understatedly hip little lit journal only distributes online, through PDF. But don’t be fooled by the low-maintenance distro: Five Dials pulls in some pretty big names. The most recent issue, themed around Paris, features writing from the likes of Ali Smith and John Updike; an “addendum” to the issue, posted today, centres around Guy de Maupassant. Previous issues include writers such as Arundhati Roy and Jonathan Safran Foer.
With its recent, star-studded opening on November 22, the Museum of Modern Art in New York is now showing a Tim Burton exhibition. A tribute to Burton’s extensive life work, the exhibit features childhood sketches, paintings, storyboards, puppets, and costumes, as well as other completed and non-completed projects, and screenings of his major movies.
The high street finally made its way to Vancouver last week with Manchester’s edgy brand Bench. The street-fashion retailer opened its first store in Western Canada on Thursday, and The Block was there to celebrate. Free-flowing wine, mini-burgers, and tiny boxes of delectable mac ‘n cheese didn’t stop us from hitting the till with an armload of statement-making styles.