Author: Pol Rosenthal
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Victoria Howe: Confectioneste
My terrific friend Victoria Howe has started a new blog on her food creations: http://vvvyyyhhh.tumblr.com So far it’s pretty delightful. No idea how long this mercurial being will keep up this site so check it out now while it’s still going. Her latest creation, a food pyramid composed of fresh raspberries, lychee fruit, and atomized rose-water…
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Curation Situation
I’m guest curator for the Degenerate Art Ensemble’s Art Stream for the next two weeks. I’m tasked with posting daily snapshots of artists and institutions that the world needs to know about. My first shot’s fired and it’s dedicated to Unnur Andrea, an Icelandic performer who makes music and videos. I’ve focused on her video…
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Ladies & Gentleman, Miss Azealia Banks
Azealia Banks has just taken me for a ride… This young woman is from Manhattan (212) and is ready to claim the entire island as her own. I suggest we all step back and see what she can do. She’s better than Bloomberg, obviously more articulate. http://azealiabanks.com Somebody give sweetthang a show in Seattle, yap? The distorted vocals…
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Book Review: ‘With/Without’
With/Without by Markus Miessen My rating: 5 of 5 stars With/Without deals primarily with the sectarian codification of space in the Middle East. And like any set of treatises on the Middle East’s urbanity, its architectural growth, it is obsessed with Dubai, that startling jewel in late Capitalism’s crown (and its voyeuristic facets). The book…
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This Blackness It Burns
Whoa, Angolan production team Nirvanas & Beats fire up the heavy kuduro. I’d never heard of these cats until tonight, but I’ve listened to Buraka Som Sistema for a long time. Buraka is a Portuguese kuduro act that can break the night. What I don’t know about kuduro could fill many books. Doesn’t matter, though.…