Culture 2006 [The ZOO]
Culture :: Ann Craven, Quiet Subversion
Ann Craven's paintings are deceptively simple and hide a quiet subversion lurking within. Her seemingly banal subjects are honestly painted exercises in conceptual repetition where in the ordinary becomes sublime. Craven's new paintings are a metaphor of loss and memory bracketed by the waxing and waning moon. It's like conceptualism with an emotional center. Craven is also returning to an idea that she painted in 1995 just before a colossal fire stole through her studio burning every painting she ever made. This show re-visits a former idea and resurrects it to the present. This painted past also acts as a passage of people in her life through the metaphor of a the simple image of the moon repeated 400 times. more...
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Culture :: The Wolman Files by Baron Wolman
During his fast-paced tenure at Rolling Stone Magazine, Baron Wolman's lens captured the royalty of the '60s pop and rock explosion: Janis Joplin, the Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, the Who, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Iggy Pop, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, Phil Spector, Jim Morrison, Ike & Tina Turner, Tim Leary, and a motley cast of hangers-on. more...
Culture :: Shoot 'Em Up by James Patrick Cooper
In our continuing series of portfolios by our favorite music photographers we profile James Patrick Cooper. In his own words he says "I aim to make people as relaxed as possible as quickly as possible." Cooper's portfolio includes pictures of Alicia Keys, Fergie, Killers, Pussycat Dolls and Ryan Adams. more...
Culture :: Infantjoy Music Video :: Ghosts
Infantjoy was formed and is maintained by James Banbury and Paul Morley. James Banbury is an award winning arranger, acclaimed session musician, composer and producer, ex Auteur and one half of Infantjoy. Paul Morley is a 'legendary pop writer' described by Russell Brand as 'the voice of reason', ex Art of Noise and one half of Infantjoy.
Ghosts is one of the most beautiful pop songs of all time, written by David Sylvian, originally performed by Japan, recorded by Infantjoy as a part of their celebration of Erik Satie, Where The Night Goes, remixed by Populous for the second Infantjoy album With, sung in both cases by England's greatest European vocalist, Sarah Nixey.
Populous is an Italian producer/remixer with a way with beats, thoughts and signals. Sarah Nixey is ex Black Box Recorder, dramatic torch singer with a mesmerizing twist, Infantjoy's special ghost star on stage and record. Andreas Horvath is an award winning Austrian photographer and documentary film director with a particular eye for a particular mood. more...
Culture :: Monkey Portraits by Jill Greenberg
Jill Greenberg first established her artistic reputation as a preeminent celebrity photographer, shooting such Hollywood personalities as David Bowie, Liza Minelli, Drew Barrymore, Clint Eastwood, Tom Cruise, among many others.In 2001, Greenberg turned her lens on celebrities of a different sort ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù namely monkeys and apes, many of whom have appeared in film and television roles. more...
Culture :: Sarah Nixey
Sarah Nixey made her show business entrance as one third of the darkly glamorous pop group Black Box Recorder. She was in the severe, dreamy centre, singing scheming songs that were deadly serious about trivia, and deeply frivolous about important matters, acting out her role as interpreter and enigma with subversive attention to detail. She sung the songs she found herself singing with a combination of English delicacy and European angst, emphatically blending the neutral and the neurotic, the fragile and the forceful. She sang the songs as if they were bruised lullabies, as if she was soothing the 20th Century to sleep, as if she was a friend of Alice in Wonderland and Sylvia Plath who was quite partial to the Pet Shop Boys and Francoise Hardy. more...
Culture :: Brazilian Girls
The Brazilian Girls second album 'Talk To La Bomb' (Verve Forecast), will surely enhance their reputation as one of the most unique and innovative groups around. The band recorded 'Talk to the Bomb' at Jimi Hendrix's famed Electric Lady Studios in New York City with producer Mark Plati (David Bowie, The Cure, Dee Lite) and Ric Ocasek of The Cars who produced the song 'Last Call'. They were inspired by their surroundings and quickly began composing material. With the resulting 12 new tracks, they push their innovative fusion of electro, dub, pop, punk and dance music to more elaborate and edgy arrangements. more...
Culture :: Sarah Nixey's Music Video :: The Collector
Sarah Nixey (Black Box Recorder) in her promo video for her debut single The Collector. Directed by Edd Royal and Greg Gagol. more...
Culture :: Seasoning in the Sun, photographs by Jimmy and Dena Katz
Standing on the shore of the Great Salt Lake with a stark, almost surreal view stretching ahead, Jimmy and Dena Katz came upon a trio of plastic pink flamingoes abandoned in the water. And thus Salt Dreams was born; a book of photographs, published by PowerHouse Books of people and objects that are an ironic and haunting comment on the audacity and fragility of human dreams. more...
Culture :: Janette Beckman, A Riot of Her Own
In the late 1970's Janette Beckman started her career working for the English music magazine 'Melody Maker'. As the youngest of the staff photographers her job was to cover the new bands, luckily these were the bands and the scene she loved: the punks, the mods, the ska and the reggae. The sounds that would ultimately defined a generation.
ZOOZOOM sat down with Janette and asked her to select a few of her favorite images from this time, many of which appear in her recently published book titled 'Made in the UK'. more...
Culture :: Deep Dish Television
"But is it art?" We gave up on that question when the government gave up on subsidies for the arts because in private hands art is commerce, which makes the Whitney Biennial even more important. There, art does what it's meant to do: be our social conscience and provoke us to thought. This brings us to Deep Dish Television. Simply put, they are every thing FOX isn't - and they're in the Biennial and FOX isn't! more...
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