Glen Brady, aka DJ Wool, is a DJ and Music Producer, co founder of Berlin based label We Collect Enemies and a founding member of Indie Dance duo The Glass with Dominique Keegan of Plant Records (co-owned by Hip hop pioneer Stretch Armstrong). A Dublin native and Berlin transplant via Brooklyn (did you get all that?) Brady has been tearing-up ... Read More »
Stephanie Wooster is an artist with a pedigree. Not only does this Michigan native hold an MFA in painting, she also has her MS in art history from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY with academic and fine art honors. Her art history specilization is 19th-century Russian art specifically the realist painter Ilya Repin, and her paintings have been exhibited ... Read More »
On Saturday, July 3 – 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm, for the second year in a row, the Istanbul music scene will be setting-up camp in Central Park in New York for a free day long concert. The concert is in celebration of Turkish music and features: Kenan Dogulu has become one of the most successful entertainers to emerge ... Read More »
In honor of Fifty One Gallery’s 10 year anniversary, it has decided to celebrate with an overview of the oeuvre of one its most famous artists, Serge Gainsbourg (1928 – 1991). The exhibition “…offers a mélange of portraits, as well as rare and eccentric images by artists such as William Klein, JL Sieff, Tony Frank, Helmut Newton, Pierre Terrasson, Claude ... Read More »
This time, south of Paris in Marseille. A Picasso and various other works were stolen from the home of a collector Friday evening in a robbery that wasn’t quite as clever as the Paris heist. The thieves beat the owner of the works in order to make off with the masterpieces. The Picasso stolen was a lithograph representing a ... Read More »
Early this morning at the Paris Modern Art Museum, one brazen thief stole five paintings right off the wall. The works include ‘Le pigeon aux petits-pois” (The Pigeon with the Peas) an ochre and brown Cubist oil painting by Pablo Picasso, valued an estimated €23 million, “La Pastorale” (Pastoral), an oil painting of nudes on a hillside by Henri Matisse ... Read More »
Last week, we went to the medieval city of Colmar, France in our guide to having a great Weekend Away and this week we take you to another medieval location, Bruges, Belgium, which all you film buffs may remember from the 2008 film In Bruges directed by Martin McDonagh. The lovely Colmar may be the wine capital of Alsace but ... Read More »
Add a little bit of France, a bit more of Germany, with the city planning of Venice and help from a time machine and what do you get? The charming medieval city of Colmar. Located in the Alsace region of France, Colmar’s position close to the German border has long made the town a point of contention for the two ... Read More »
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