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Patterns 2: design, art and architecture

Material Type: All, Books — Tags: , , — Posted on October 2, 2008 at 11:29 am

By: Barbara Glasner, Petra Schmidt, Ursula Schöndeling

Part 2 of this wildly successful and satisfying book series, which connects works art, architecture, and a variety of other disciplines through patterns.

Reviewer: Tommy

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Astral Glamour

Material Type: All, Music — Tags: , , — Posted on October 2, 2008 at 11:26 am

By: The Homosexuals

Vampire Weekend was far from the first group to incorporate African influence into snotty white kid music, and Radiohead was certainly not the first to try to sell their music on their own.  The Homosexuals were a shifting group of punk rockers in the UK who set out to make avant garde music in a totally insular, outsider manner.  The result was they self-released a ton of projects on their own label It’s War Boys that ultimately sound like they may be the best DIY, kitchen-sink pop recordings ever. Collected on three CDs in this set are all of the recordings they issued as The Homosexuals.

Reviewer: Tommy

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Dancer in the Dark

Material Type: All, Movies — Tags: , — Posted on October 2, 2008 at 11:24 am

By: Lars von Trier

A tragically beautiful mixture of musical theater and cinematography. Bjork stars as a factory worker fighting a losing battle to save her son’s vision. And she sings, too!

Reviewer: Chance

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Ornament as art: avant-garde jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt collection, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Material Type: All, Books — Tags: , — Posted on October 2, 2008 at 11:18 am

By: Cindi Strauss

From the publisher: “Presents 800 jewelry objects and drawings from 1960 through 2006 by more than 170 international jewelry artists in the Helen Williams Drutt Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Includes essays about Minimalist and Conceptual influences and the history behind the collection, a chronology, and artist biographies.”

Reviewer: Laura

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