Honey in the coffee

Beautiful music video shot during the Beirut Love Attack Tour in Italy (2010). I remember the Roman tour date with pleasure : Fr iday 21st of January 2011. music: Zeid and the Wings director: Gigi Roccati

Add caption Mansour Ciss Kanakassy, "Lumumba," 2010. Aluminium print, 125x80cm. Courtesy the artist. United States of Africa an exhibition by artist Mansour Ciss Kanakassy @   Raw Material Company , center for art, knowledge and society (Dakar, Senegal). September 21 – December 31, 2011

35 Summers music video taken from new forthcoming album Scintilli (out on 26th September 2011) Music by Plaid Directed by Richie Burridge

POLAROID IMPOSSIBLE THE WESTLICHT COLLECTION exhibition 17.06.2011 - 21.08.2011 On Friday 17th of June an important collection of polaroids opened in Vienna. The photo museum WestLicht is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a show on instant photography and t he amazing book "From Polaroid to Impossible / Masterpieces of Instant Photography - The WestLicht Collection" has been published by Hatje Cantz for the exhibition. Straight after the miracle accomplished by Impossible company to bring back to life the polaroid films - and the acquisition of the wide Polaroid collection by WestLicht last March - we can now celebrate with them our love for polaroids pictures in Vienna. I am sure that the polaroid inventor Edwin Herbert Land, would be happy to see these beautiful works, more than 350 on display, by so many different international artists. Andy Warhol, Ansel Adams, Helmut Newton and Oliviero Toscani t o name a few. The exhibition will be ope...

LE NOTE BLU DELL’UNIVERSO testo di Alessandra Migani  Perché là dov'è il tuo tesoro, sarà anche il tuo cuore. La lucerna del corpo è l'occhio; se dunque il tuo occhio è chiaro, tutto il tuo corpo sarà nella luce; ma se il tuo occhio è malato, tutto il tuo corpo sarà tenebroso. Se dunque la luce che è in te è tenebra, quanto grande sarà la tenebra!    Vangelo secondo Matteo   Quanto di noi riusciamo a rivelare a noi stessi e al mondo? Quanto spesso ci ritroviamo ad indossare delle maschere senza neppure accorgercene? Alcuni di questi interrogativi si affacciano sicuramente nei pensieri di Hadeel Azeez mentre dipinge. La voglia di svelare i moti personali dell’animo si tramuta in arte, si rivolge verso una tela bianca, che poco a poco prende forma e colore. Rivelazioni in blu , la prima personale dell’artista a Roma, offre allo spettatore un’esperienza di lettura introspettiva molto intima. Gli otto dipinti ad olio e le due maschere che scendono dal ...

Today the 4th of June the Jury of the 54th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia comprised of Hassan Khan (President, Egypt), Carol Yinghua Lu (China), Letizia Ragaglia (Italy), Christine Marcel (France) and John Waters (USA) has decided to confer the awards as follows: Golden Lion for Best National Participation to Germany: Schlingensief ( Pavilion at the Giardini) Commissioner: Susanne Gaensheimer Golden Lion for the best artist at the ILLUMInations Exhibition to Christian Marclay (United States, 1955; on display at the Corderie, Arsenale) The Clock , 2010 Silver Lion for a promising young artist at the ILLUMInations Exhibition to Haroon Mirza (Great Britain, 1977; on display at the Corderie, Arsenale and at the Central Pavilion, Giardini) The Jury has also decided to assign two Special Mentions : Lithuania Behind the White Curtain Darius Mikšys (Pavilion in town; Scuola S. Pasquale, Castello 278) Commissioner: Kestutis K...

These are the last days to enjoy a brilliant exhibition: Africa: See you, See me! Curated by Awam Amkpa at Officine Fotografiche in Rome. Until the 4th of June.

Last week I received an email by London-based artist Zak Ové announcing his New York debut show at Volta, the successful art fair taking place these days at 7W 34 th Street, directly across the Empire State Building. I was very pleased to hear it!! Ové attained a BA in Film as Fine Art at St Martins School of Art in London, and from there pursued a career in both film and photography. He is an extraordinary Film Director, Photographer and Sculptor. I 'met' Zak's work many years ago while working at the tv series Funky Black Shorts for the Community Channel in London. His short film ‘I Have a Dream’ (2002) caught my attention immediately. It is absolutely brilliant! The film was the winner of the best short film award as well as Best Director and Best Up and Coming Talent at the Black Film Awards in the UK, and was screened at various film festivals around the world. ‘I Have a Dream’ was shot in New York where Zak lived for many years. It mu...