LUDWIG WAS DEAF_New Order NYC 1981

New Order Live
Ukrainian National Home.
NYC, 1981.

Pics by Eugene Merinov

You can watch this amazing performance from the Taras Shevchenko VHS by Factory Records (FAC77) or just get the DVD version included in 3 16.

ARTBURST_George Condo in Europe

After being exposed in NYC, the "European version" of George Condo retrospective MENTAL STATES is visiting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam and London Hayward Gallery.

Some ideas we like of this work:

- Different styles and technique approaches are able to define a whole body of work.

- Modern ideas and theming with "traditional" painting resources.

- Someone who grew in the 80´s NYC scene with Haring and Basquiat is (also) able to present a solid for-galleries work without being labeled with the "graffiti writer" tag (pun intended)

- In spite of the previous, he is able to collaborate in commercial projects, such as Sumpreme skateboard decks and Kanye West record sleeve without loosing any intensity as he gives the same importance to both the "official art" and the "consumer art".

- A pop American version of Bacon... and he is still alive!