The Museum of Drug Policy is a pop-up international museum featuring live programming and art from around the world. It is supported by the Open Society Foundations and produced by the Soze Agency. The goal of the Museum, according to Kasia Malinowska, the Director of the Global Drug Policy Program at the Open Society Foundations, is … Continue reading
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Sunflower Bean.
Sunflower Bean, a psychedelic rock group from Brooklyn, is releasing a new album this February. The trio of under twenty-one-year-olds: Julia Cumming, Jacob Faber and Nick Kivlen, have been together since 2013. Their music consists of Cumming’s ethereal singing mixed with grounding cadence from the bass and Faber’s drums. Adding to this is Kivlen’s infectious … Continue reading
See: Cane Morto’s Amo-Te Lisboa
Italian street art collective, Cane Morto, will be releasing a film chronicling two wild months of unauthorized street painting in Lisbon. Amo-Te Lisboa: An Ignominious Street Art Movie looks to be a somewhat surrealist take on their painting endeavors, centering the story around a “cruel dead-dog deity called Txakurra, which gives [Cane Morto] the power to paint together as a … Continue reading
Five to Watch: Painted Lives
John Wentz Wentz is a painter who navigates the waters between “rigid technicality and honest expression” according to his website. He works with a limited palate of blue-greens and reds, exploring the emotive power of such colors while experimenting with compositional concepts. While working mostly within the confines of the human form, he gives his … Continue reading
“The World is not a Paradise”
A member of Cane Morto is out in the surprisingly warm May sunshine, painting a bereaved impressionistic face on an abandoned wall in Hackney Wick on the outskirts of London. Cane Morto is a street art collective comprised of three Italian artists who started working together as a joke in a high school math class. … Continue reading
An American in London Week 5: Last Impressions of the Global City
This is the tenth in a weekly series that will extend until the end of June. It will chronicle my travels in Europe and the interesting things I come upon or wish someone had told me before I left. This is my last week in London. Next week I will start a three week rail … Continue reading
An American in London: Week 4: Culture in the City of the Bard
This is the ninth in a weekly series that will extend until the end of June. It will chronicle my travels in Europe and the interesting things I come upon or wish someone had told me before I left. I will spend five weeks focusing on London. Culture is quite easy to find in London. … Continue reading
An American in London: Week 3 in the Victorian City
This is the eighth in a weekly series that will extend until the end of June. It will chronicle my travels in Europe and the interesting things I come upon or wish someone had told me before I left. I will spend five weeks focusing on London. Trying to find a club open past 11 … Continue reading
An American in London Week 2 in the Moss-Ridden City
This is the seventh in a weekly series that will extend until the end of June. It will chronicle my travels in Europe and the interesting things I come upon or wish someone had told me before I left. I will spend five weeks focusing on London. This week I discovered that London’s public transportation … Continue reading
An American In London Week 1: First Impressions of the Big Smokey
This is the sixth in a weekly series that will extend until the end of June. It will chronicle my travels in Europe and the interesting things I come upon or wish someone had told me before I left. For the next five weeks I will focus on London. This week, I took the train … Continue reading