Just Like All of Their Readers, Vice Now Has a Trust Fund
Vice Magazine continues to become one of the most unlikely mainstream crossover stories of the 21st Century. What was once a local Canadian monthly run by recovering and/or not recovering heroin addicts focusing on informative topics like injaculation has become an international empire. Boasting 750 employees in 34 countries with a circulation of 1.1 million and offshoots into industries like advertising, music recording and television, Vice has done what many consider to be largely impossible — held the attention of a hipster audience for more than a single season.
With a new massive round of fundraising to the tune of tens of millions of US dollars from the like of Viacom and WPP, Vice has become bedfellows with some of the largest media companies in the world. This is amazing news for the hipster bible, giving them the liquidity to expand into the massive “emerging markets” of China, India and Brazil.
05 Apr 2011
05 Apr 2011
Exhibition Guide: 4 - 10 April
Possible Damage
Rivington Place, Old Street/Shoreditch HighStreet, EC2A 3BA
Rivington Place and Inva’s Youth Advisory Board present Possible Damage, performance artist Tania El Khoury’s exhibition archiving the recent student protests. A collective investigation that hopes to recreate the shared experience, conflicts, anger and frustration of those involved. The exhibition complements the galleries other show, The People are Demanding, which highlights the Middle Eastern conflicts. Until 14 May.
Jonathan Horowitz
Sadie Coles, 4 New Burlington Place, Green Park, W1K 2QZ
Art, History is the latest exhibition from New York born philosophical artist Jonathan Horowitz. The show at Sadie Coles comprises of a new, major body of works that responds to the minimalist aesthetics of the permanent display at the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. Stark, often shocking and religiously subverting, Horowitz combines sculpture, video and installation in this prestigious London space. Until 30 April.
The Marmite Prize For Painting
The Nunnery, 183 Bow Road, Bow Church, E3 2SJ
Now in its third year, The Marmite Prize For Painting’s exhibition is on display at The Nunnery. With exhibitors selected from more than 600 entries following an international call for submissions, the show promises to be packed with exciting works of art from artists like Tom Omond and Ben Walker. The winner and runners up will be chosen at the Private View on 7 April. 8 April – 1 May.
The Shape We’re In
The Zabludowicz Collection, 176 Prince of Wales Road, Kentish Town/Chalk Farm, NW5 3PT
Taking place on both sides of the Atlantic, The Shape We’re In is part of a series of three exhibitions focussing on the recent installation and sculptural work of 22 emerging, contemporary artists. The show features over 100 works made over the past five years, many of which express a strong socio-political agenda. By taking place across three locations, the former Methodist Chapel at the home of the collection, vacant shops in the Camden Boroush and the 33rd floor of a skyscraper in Time Sqaure, NY the show encourages the public to engage with works of art in an informal, more personal way. Until 12 June.
The Poverty of Riches
Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, Aldgate East, E1 7QX
The Poverty of Riches is an exhibition of works by The Max Mara Art Prize For Women winner Andrea Büttner. Inspired by her residency in Italy, this body of work explores unexpected parallels between the ethos of certain religious communities, secular forms and the making and reception of art. Until 10 April.
05 Apr 2011
The Week in Books: Pointlessness to London Word Festival
Utter! Pointless
7.30pm Tuesday 5th
This established spoken word night plays host to an array of new talent, all surrounding the theme of the ‘pointless’. With that in mind they’ve invited acts from the far flung corners of the isle, meaning their fee barely covers the travel cost. How kind of them.
Green Note, 106 Parkway, NW1 7AN. £7
Dash Café
7.30pm Wednesday 6th
The Dash Arabic Series celebrates Arabic artistic identity, contributing to the understanding of an oft-misunderstood culture. This storytelling night hosts the wonderful Egyptian hakawati Chirine El Ansary. Expect tales from the One Thousand and One Nights.
Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, E1 6LA. Free
London Word Festival a breath of fresh words, kicks off this week. Check out these great events.
Cybraphon
All day, Thursday 7th – Wednesday 20th
The BAFTA Award-winning piece of musical furniture comes to London. This autonomous emotional robot indie band will be playing throughout the festival, and in a special composition, will be filtering Aidan Moffat’s reading of a J.G. Ballard short story. You’ll have to get yourself down to Rich Mix to find out what that all means.
Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, E1 6LA. Free
The Quiet Volume – Touring a number of libraries throughout the festival
This whispered, self-generated performance piece explores and exploits the tensions common to all libraries. The Quit Volume declares the book as the ultimate portable theatre or event space.
This is just to say
2pm & 5pm Saturday 9th – Sunday 10th
Why do we say sorry? And how do we say it like we really mean it? Hannah Jane Walker hosts an intimate round table performance discussing the hardest word to say.
Toynbee Arts Café, 28 Commercial Street, E1 6AB. £8
05 Apr 2011
London agenda for Tuesday 5 April
1. See what is hot in photography at Deutsche Börse in the University of Westminster’s hidden P3 hall [Le Cool]
2. Watch Hal Hartley’s transcendent The Unbelievable Truth at the Working Man’s [Run Riot]
3. Check out new paintings by Hynek Martinec: Lost in Time Part II. Voyager 1 [Flavorpill]
4. Stock up at Syon Park Garden Centre [Tired of London]
5. Organise oneself to hear the mathematics of evolution, altruism and human behaviour [Ian Visits]
05 Apr 2011
The Fridge by John Stammers
Manchester folk-troubadour John Stammers released his eponymous debut album last Monday, via Wonderfulsound. His characteristically English style of storytelling has led to comparisons with 70s folk heavyweights Richard Thompson and Nick Drake, as well as support slots with the likes of Alfie and King Creosote. Stream The Fridge, below.
04 Apr 2011
Journalism Students Create Hyperlocal News Sites, Learn Hyperlocal News Lessons
Remember when “hyperlocal” news used to be called the far less sexy but probably just as accurate “local” news? But then “local” became synonymous with “nobody reads this shit” and in order to lure student journalists away from the fast paced and exciting world of gossip blogging they had to invent an exciting new prefix to make local seem cutting edge and fast paced instead of geriatric and arthritic? Those were the days!
04 Apr 2011
Vincent Gallo plays a kind of art-house Rambo in Essential Killing
Jerzy Skolimowski (writer of Knife in the Water, writer-director of Deep End, actor in Before Night Falls) is clearly not a bad sort. His credits speak for themselves. And on top of writing one of Polanski’s greatest hits, he’s won a Golden Bear, Special Jury prizes galore and was even in Eastern Promises, which wasn’t such a farce either.
With Essential Killing he’s back in the fold-out director’s chair he seemingly carries around, popping it open when his mood so fits, and here he’s got the volatile talent of ‘Best Actor’ in Venice, Vincent Gallo , heading it all up quite confidently.
04 Apr 2011
King of Pop statue: 'The most outrageous sick thing that could have ever gone on in the city of London'
While London recoils in horror/convulses in laughter at the statue of Michael Jackson that has just been unveiled at Craven Cottage by Fulham FC owner Mohamed Al-Fayed, another statue of the Prince of Pop is causing consternation in the opposite corner of London.
This Koons-lite statue is by Californian-based artist Maria Von Kohler, and daringly represents that unforgettable moment whent Michael Jackson pretended to drop his baby out of a Berlin hotel window. It is in London until May 1, when it moves to LA.
Some people aren’t happy about this and the Hackney Citizen reports that the Premises, the music studio that hosts the statue, has received a series of emails from people unhappy with its installation. Some are Jacko fans, upset at this less than regal treatment of the late King of Pop, while others object to anything that honours the alleged paedophile.
According to the Citizen, one person argues that is the ‘The most outrageous sick thing that could have ever gone on in the city of London’, which is just the sort of hyperbole we like at Snipe. You can go and join the debate at The Premises website or you can see where Fulham’s Jacko comes in a list of London’s Worst Statues.
04 Apr 2011
Poetry and Illustration: Charles Bukowski ‘The Man with the Beautiful Eyes’
Poetry and illustration go beautifully together, you only have to check out the magazines Popshot and Poetry Illustrated to see their perfect marriage. But if further proof were need, then it arrives in this beautiful animation of Charles Bukowski’s poem ‘The Man with the Beautiful Eyes’. Jonny Hannah’s simple and rustic drawings capture the poem’s childlike logic perfectly , and not surprising it won several awards, including the 2000 animation BAFTA. Enjoy
04 Apr 2011
Snipe Highlights
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