Passport. Birdy for Viteo.

Passport. The Many Worlds Of Dennis Hopper, ed Taschen.

100 words. Ricordo di quale anno fa (15?). Perigord, Francia per il festival Au Printemps de Cahors. Si dormiva in un Chateaux con vigne. La mattina, sul corridoio, un uomo né giovane né vecchio. Era la prima europea di Hopper fotografo.

More from Taschen. “I was doing something that I thought could have some impact someday. In many ways, it’s really these photographs that kept me going creatively.” —Dennis Hopper. During the 1960s, Dennis Hopper carried a camera everywhere—on film sets and locations, at parties, in diners, bars and galleries, driving on freeways and walking on political marches. He photographed movie idols, pop stars, writers, artists, girlfriends, and complete strangers. Along the way he captured some of the most intriguing moments of his generation with a keen and intuitive eye. A reluctant icon at the epicenter of that decade’s cultural upheaval, Hopper documented the likes of Tina Turner in the studio, Andy Warhol at his first West Coast show, Paul Newman on set, and Martin Luther King during the Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. In many ways this work is photography as film, a poignant narrative expressed through a series of stark images–early shots of Tijuana bullfights, LA happenings and urban street scenes show an experimental freedom that would translate into the vivid cinematic imagery of Easy Rider and beyond. From a selection of photographs compiled by Hopper and gallerist Tony Shafrazi—more than a third of them previously unpublished—this extensive volume distills the essence of Hopper’s brilliantly prodigious photographic career. Also included are introductory essays by Tony Shafrazi and legendary West Coast art pioneer Walter Hopps, and an extensive biography by journalist Jessica Hundley. With excerpts from Victor Bockris’s interviews of Hopper’s famous subjects, friends, and family, this volume is an unprecedented exploration of the life and mind of one of America’s most fascinating personalities.

Passport. The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for brain health by Frank Gehry.

More from Los Angeles Times. Reporting from Las Vegas — Frank Gehry’s buildings can look unfinished or unruly — even a bit chaotic. But they often have surprisingly direct metaphorical stories to tell. Walt Disney Concert Hall is a joyously informal ship of state for a city keen to come together, if only for a few hours, in a collective experience. Gehry’s own house in Santa Monica, a modest pink bungalow the architect wrapped in colliding layers of corrugated metal and chain link, is an unabashed affirmation of the workaday, un-pretty built landscape of Southern California. In the case of Gehry’s newest project, the riotously sculptural $100-million Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, the story is about the depths — and ultimately the limits — of the human mind. It’s the poignancy of that architectural narrative that ultimately helps the building, which will open officially with a gala celebration Saturday night, overcome its reliance on some of Gehry’s most recognizable architectural gestures. For me, and I suspect for other critics and architects, some of these strategies — intentionally crude detailing, exposed structure and the casual juxtaposition of dramatic and banal spaces, to name just three — have lost more than a little freshness over the years, particularly as the size and budgets of Gehry’s projects have soared. At the Ruvo Center, which rises from a wide-open intersection about a mile north of the big casinos lining the Las Vegas Strip, the familiarity of those elements is balanced by a deep, affecting humanism at the building’s core. This is surely in large part because the Ruvo Center’s mission — the complex is dedicated to research on and treatment of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s and other neurological diseases — is one Gehry has fully embraced. Casino magnates and other potential clients here have been courting Gehry for years without success. The architect agreed to design a building in Las Vegas this time for two central reasons. He struck up an immediate rapport with Larry Ruvo, a Las Vegas liquor distributor who was compelled to start a neurological research facility after watching his father, Lou, struggle with Alzheimer’s.

Passport. Festa dei giochi di strada a cura di de.de.p. Milano, 29.05-02.06.2010.

100 words. Un progetto, due azioni. La prima è una mostra che raccoglie i giochi di trenta designer da vedere (e provare) il 29 maggio alla Fonderia Napoleonica in via Thaon de Revel 21 (15.30 / 18.30). La seconda è una festa dei giochi di strada dal Mondo che si svolgerà il 5 giugno al Parco Bassi, tra Via Livigno e Via Guerzoni a Milano. Per scaricare le istruzioni dei giochi d’autore basta cliccare MadeAThome di ATCasa, il portale di design del Corriere della Sera (Photo, vespa table by Giulio Iacchetti). Per partecipare alla Festa basta basta segnarsi in agenda luogo e data. Il tutto è promosso da de.de.p un progetto di Claudia Barana con Giulia Durante e Jose Luis Gonzalez Cabrero. Obiettivi: portare il design sul terreno dela quotidianità e del multiculturalismo. A cominciare dal gioco.

More from de.de.p. de.de.p sta per design democratico partecipato. Si propone come osservatorio delle abitudini sociali legate al design, con l’obiettivo principale di diffondere il valore di questa disciplina come strumento di coesione e integrazione sociale e culturale, capace di stimolare nuove relazioni sul territorio. I mutamenti delle condizioni globali spingono il design a confrontarsi con una realtà urbana in continuo movimento, coinvolgendo la società cosmopolita. de.de.p sviluppa azioni, mirate a stimolare la consapevolezza del valore della partecipazione.

Passport. Jackpot by Kevin Landers book + exhibit, The powerHouse Arena NY, 01-06-11.07.2010.

100 words. La topografia di New York ricostruita attraverso oggetti smarriti e abbandonati. Un viaggio fotografico della durata di 17 anni all’inseguimento di quel che resta della società dei consumi.

More from the The New Yorker. «A survey of the color photographs that Landers made between 1990 and 2007 showcases a slacker sensibility too amused and blasé to be seriously cynical. Like a grungier Martin Parr or Tony Feher with a camera, Landers makes pictures of people and products that tease Pop mercilessly. Studio still lifes of panhandlers’ cups, three–card–monte cardboard totems, and plastic bags snagged on broken branches rescue their subjects as found sculpture… Call it photography of the absurd, but nobody does it better».

Passport. Other Than Beauty, Friedman Benda, New York, 01.06-30.07.2010.

100 words. Solo il titolo varrebbe la mostra. Forse, chissà, basterebbe la bellezza (Photos Chitra Ganesh, Louise Bourgeois e Ai Wei Wei).

More from the gallery. Other than Beauty will present work by post-war and emerging artists, whose ground-breaking practices have established new paradigms of art-making and new criteria for beauty. Tracing the emergence of process, performance, language, video, and political action as new or subversive components of artistic expression, the exhibition considers a broad range of artists who have disregarded the primacy of formal and aesthetic beauty. Some works investigate materiality; some are acutely self-reflective, others offer unconventional platforms for mundane or banal aspects of the human predicament. Paradoxically, by pushing the boundaries of meaning and form, these artists have, over time, expanded our ideas of what beauty can be. The show includes Joseph Beuys, who made art that focused on malleability, transformation, and the possibilities of art to affect social change; Jannis Kounellis and Robert Rauschenberg, who used debris and cultural detritus as artistic materials; Bruce Nauman, and Lawrence Weiner who use text, video, and media; and Robert Gober and Louise Bourgeois, who have expanded the formal properties of sculpture using the potency of everyday objects to express political, social, phenomenological and existential ideas. Other Than Beauty juxtaposes this first wave of artists with a new generation of international artists like Ai Weiwei, Janine Antoni, Tavares Strachan, Sterling Ruby, and Chitra Ganesh, who came of age in the wake of these developments, and who produce powerful works that continue to challenge our expectations and expand the lexicon of both art and beauty.

Passport. Belgrade Design Week, 29.05-06.06.2010.

100 words. E’ alla quinta edizione ma è solo quest’anno che la settimana del design di Belgrado acquista in medianicità internazionale. La formula – un educational festival – si discosta un po’ delle design week global-local che di settimana in settimana portano progetto e protagonisti a spasso per il mondo. A Belgrado di nomi ce ne saranno a parecchi e verranno smistati in una griglia di lecture a tema: Smart Superstar, Smart Brand, Smart City e Smart Culture. Dettaglio di nota: per partecipare alle sessioni è previsto un bonus dai 100 ai 30 euro. «This year, the conference ticket price is reduced to popular and non-profit 100€, due to the expected support of the City of Belgrade, without which such a conference would be economically unsustainable» afferma il board. Karim Rashid ha già twittato la sua presenza in Serbia. Sul sito la Design Week è logata 100 % Serbia. Tra le guest in arrivo, Jaime Hayon, Bjarke Ingels, Marti Guixé, Ola Rune, Lars Larsen etc… I numeri ci sono tutti. Resta aperto un interrogativo: parlare sempre più spesso di progetto farà bene al progetto?

Passport. ST10 Jean by Stefan Diez for e15.

100 words. Ultimo di una famiglia di sedute by Stefan Diez, gambe lunghe per assolvere la funzione (che poi è quella di un bar stool), lavorato l’appoggio.

More from designer. The bar stool ST10 JEAN is a development of the chair family CH04 HOUDINI. ST10 JEAN consists of a seat with circumferential brim, which provides comfort and hold when seated. Between the front two legs runs a cross beam with an em- bedded profile, which acts as a foot rest and gives the stool stability. The bar stool ST10 JEAN, made from oak veneered plywood, lacquered, is available in two heights which makes it suitable for contract as well as private use at a kitchen counter. Upholstery of the seat is possible.

Passport. Archi & BD, la ville dessinée, Palais de Chaillot, Paris, 09.06-28.11.2010.

100 words. Non sappiamo quale sia meglio, se la città disegnata, quella reale o quella anche solo immaginata, da Calvino, da noi, da tutti. Resta che la mostra annunciata alla Cité de l’architecture & du patrimone di Parigi è imperdibile per tutti gli appassionati di fumetto. Ci sono i grandi vecchi: Winsor McCay (Little Nemo), George McManus (La famille Illico), Frank O. King (Gasoline Alley) e Alain Saint-Ogan (Zig et Puce). Ci sono le metropoli raccontate da disegnatori con radici ben piantate nella città reale, come Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, David Mazzuchelli, Riad Sattouf per New York o Blutch, Tardi, Dupuy-Berberian per Paris; Jiro Taniguchi, Osamu Tezuka, Toiyo Matsumoto, Maoki Urasawa per Tokyo. Non mancano i fantapensatori, da François Schuiten a Benoît Peeters, a Moebius… Completa un blog da leggere d’un fiato. Bella mostra, insomma, già sulla carta.

Passport. Sugar Bears by Jovana Bogdanovic.

Cv. Jovana Bogdanovic is a 5th-year student at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade. She participated in numerous design exhibitions, like Redesign your mind 2, Ghost Project, Dream Office, Rest Wood design, as well as Salone Satellite in Milan in previous years.