New York Cabinet

Just for Xmas: a New (York) Year Resolution!
New York Magazine reminds us all why we love the city that never sleeps.Read More

Cabinet of Drugs

Berlin Cabinet

Weimar Berlin is celebrated for its outpouring of creativity, and the Expressionism pioneered here continues to influence artists today. Architects, too, found themselves confronted with tradition's breakdown in the face of war and revolution, with groups such as Bauhaus and The Ring seeking to align a new theory and practice of building with 20th-century realities. As a painter, film designer, and architect, Hans Poelzig was at the center of this creative storm.

A new show at the Academy of German Art takes a look at Hans Poelzig. Poelzig was a painter, film designer, and architect. His Weimar-era projects in Berlin contributed to the city's early reputation as an oasis of modern architecture, and those still standing offer a glimpse of the modernist city before its wartime destruction.

Black Cabinet

She keeps going back to it, and we are going back to black. Keep the good work, Amy.

What Would Jesus Buy Cabinet

Dutch architects Merkx + Girod have won the Lensvelt de Architect Interior Prize 2007 for their Boekhandel Selexyz Dominicanen in Maastricht - a bookstore inside a former Dominican church. At last the world is ready to confess that shopping is holy.
Hallelujah.

Art Cabinet

Mark Wallinger Wins 2007 Turner Prize. He is famous for his film Sleeper, 2005, 154 minutes of footage of the artist wandering around a deserted German gallery disguised as a bear.

"What are we allowed to dream? The past rises up with all its vivid detail to mock our progress at every turn. The long past of our own fear. Inside the bear’s head I am aware of my own breathing. Looking out of the jaws at my narrow view, my progress from stimulus to distraction gains some kind of animal momentum – to watch and be watched as a foreign, alien, strange, endearing, imprisoned animal."
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Happy Birthday to Me Cabinet

New York Cabinet

Jean Nouvel has high hopes for New York. 75-story tower hope, to be precise. According to the New York Times, the new building, which will be built next to the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown and it "promises to be the most exhilarating addition to the skyline in a generation".

New York Cabinet

I love the building on Perry Street. Richard Meier designed a glass house that reflects everything we hate (or love) about rich people: the problems with the neighbours, the constructions flaws, the arrogant tenants, and last, as I read in the New York Times, the transparency issue.

Movies

The New York Times Sunday magazine goes west, following Daniel Day-Lewis and the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie he stars in, “There Will be Blood”.
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White Cabinet

Curiosities

Tracey Emin, Is Legal Sex Anal?, is shown at the Barbican's "Seduced", the much talked about exhibition which explores the representation of sex in art through the ages. Fuck that.

Curiosities

Another Marc's crap, only this time in video, shot by Jurgen Teller. The blue hair designer has a new video for his new fragrance, Daisy.

Cabinet of Books

Mario Testino has a new book, "Let Me In", another behind-the-scenes photos of celebrities, for those who can't get enough of US Weekly and In Touch material. For the rest of us, 2 pictures will do:

Trends

I love the Brain Bag that Jun Takashi designed. Available at Someday.