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Ann Veronica Janssens Exhibition: Serendipity

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Experienced cover

Belgian artist Ann Veronica Janssens opens Serendipity, a new exhibition, at Wiels in Brussels this Friday, September 4. … more

The Ann Veronica Janssens Experience

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A visitor is engulfed by an Ann Veronica Janssens mist sculpture at EACC.

This week Ann Veronica Janssens closes Are You Experienced?, a nine-week show at Valencia’s Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, and sees the release of its companion book, Experienced. The EACC exhibition consisted of three enveloping sensorial installations of sound, color, and light. Included were the artist’s mist sculptures disorienting participants with a sensation of submersion or suspension in pure color. … more

L’Officiel Spotlights Base’s Bozar Book

officiel-coverThe latest issue of L’Officiel magazine features It’s Not Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Baby, the book we designed for the Bozar exhibition of the same name, among seven fashion-editor picks. It finds itself in the high-falutin company of a Repossi ring, Balmain jacket, Giambattista Valli shoes, … more

The Branding of Schools

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Barnard Magazine covers (photographers, clockwise from top left: Victoria Cohen, Noah Sheldon, Juliana Sohn, Annie Leibovitz)

The field of secondary education isn’t just competitive for students. Colleges and universities today vie not only for students but for the best educators, press, and funding. More and more, schools must distinguish themselves, reconcile their histories with their future goals, and tell their stories to the world. To do this, they must first organize their information and then communicate it clearly and consistently across all outlets.

We often don’t think of schools as “brands,” … more

Happy 80th Birthday, Andy Warhol!

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From Warhol on Warhol

Andy Warhol would be turning 80 years old today. There is perhaps no artist more discussed. We all think we know everything about him… the Factory, the “15 minutes of fame” theory, his iconic white drag, the Velvet Underground & Nico… This is why Warhol on Warhol, last winter’s exhibition at La Casa Encendida in Madrid, was so necessary. … more

Gwangju Biennale 2008: Timely

Gwangju 2008 poster

Gwangju 2008 poster

The Gwangju Biennale, Asia’s first biennial of contemporary art, was launched in 1995 in Gwangju, South Korea. This year, the seventh installment, titled Annual Report: A Year in Exhbitions, presents artwork from exhibitions initiated between January 2007 and September 2008, by artists including Taryn Simon, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bruce Conner, … more

BOZAR Rocks


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It’s Not Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Baby catalog

BOZAR—the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels—will soon host an exhibition focusing on the visual work of artists who are better-known for their contributions in the world of rock and roll. … more

Kendell Geers: Irrespektiv

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Kendell Geers Irrespektiv cover, slipcase

He’s blown up museum walls, framed his semen, and pissed in Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain”. Since the early 90s, South African artist Kendell Geers has made a name for himself as … more