German prosecutors have decided to take no action against an artist who created a garden gnome raising its right arm in a Nazi salute. City prosecutors have ruled that the 40cm (15in) statue was poking fun at Nazism, rather than promoting it and therefore was not illegal. Artist Ottmar Hoerl: “It is pretty clear that [...]
Nazi gnome not illegal
July 23, 2009
My Awesome Mixtape free download
June 23, 2009
My Awesome Mixtape, from Bologna, Italy Will play @ Incubate Sunday 20 September And have just released the “OTHER HOUSES” EP as a FREE DOWNLOAD (right click, save as)
Art Monday: Bart Hess
April 20, 2009
Designboom: Work of Dutch artist Bart Hess will be shown as a part of the ‘Dutch Invertuals’ exhibition during the Milan Design Week 09. See more pictures here and here.
Rummelsnuff and The Terrordactyls added to ZXZW line-up
January 27, 2009
We’ve just added two new artists to the ZXZW 2009 line-up. The German act Rummelsnuff and The Terrordactyls (US) will play on the festival, this year from September 13th to September 20th. All confirmed acts at this moment: Der Blutharsch, Dernière Volonté, Uri Caine, The Terrordactyls, Bain Wolfkind and Rummelsnuff
Vincent Koreman is NOT an artist
January 26, 2009
Vincent ‘does it all and more‘ Koreman is not an artist. Well, that’s what Hyves says. Van: Hyves [mailto:geenantwoord@hyves.nl] Verzonden: donderdag 22 januari 2009 13:32 Aan: Vince ZXZW Onderwerp: Je verzoek om artiest te worden is nog niet goedgekeurd Hi, Vince Wanneer je je eigen muziek produceert kunnen we je de artiestenstatus toekennen. Voor remixen [...]
Jonathan Meese: classic or dud
July 18, 2008
I don’t know. Yesterday there was a documentary on German artist Jonathan Meese. He’s a friend of Daniel Richter and some of his work is really beautiful. But there’s also the well curated old skool art genious aspect to his work, full of old skool shock tactics etc.. I’m curious about your opinion.
New adds: Dance, Kraaklink and Music
June 25, 2008
OK, it’s too damn hot in this office, but we will get airco soon. Hurray! The heat doesn’t mean we’re just chillin’. No, the bookers are working their ass off at this moment and we can say we have 144 artists confirmed! This includes artists of the Kraaklink and Dance program, named Space That Can [...]
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Bristol is musically probably best known for the “Bristol Sound”, which was the name given to a group of artist who broke through into the mainstream with a sound that was given the stamp ‘trip-hop’. Best known are probably Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky, but there were many others. Even though Portishead’s Geoff Barrow later [...]