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| Wednesday, September 20, 2006 |
| BINDING SITUATIONS |
 Next time you feel guilty, for taking a cigarette break, remember there are doctors and nurses puffing outside hospitals everywhere. Medical Professionals Smoking, one of six new photo books by photographer Katie Murray, captures nine not-so-sterile inhalations. The series of books come via Spade & Sperduti Books, a new partnership between Andy Spade and long-time friend Anthony Sperduti. Our favorite of the six, Thanks A Lot, Rudy, exposes locations around NYC once the domain of dancing girls and burlesque shows, but now home to pizza parlors and Bentley showrooms in post-Giuliani New York. The editions will be available this October in Paris at Colette, and in NYC at Jack Spade and Bond Street Books. Go to www.jackspade.com |
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| TIME FOR A CHANGE |
  If you're late for work every day, maybe you just need Darren Almond's A Bigger Clock. Measuring 81 inches wide, the work is part of the exhibit Contemporary Sculpture, running until Oct. 14 at NYC's Zwirner & Wirth gallery. In another time zone, London's Tate Modern recently launched Tate Tracks, for which they asked contemporary musicians to write a song influenced by works in their collection. A different tune will be unveiled each week, playing on headphones beside the work, starting with The Chemical Brothers' "The Rock Drill," inspired by Jacob Epstein's Torso in Metal. Future installments will include the likes of the Klaxons and Graham Coxon, complementing such luminaries as Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, and Anish Kapoor. Go to www.tate.org.uk |
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| FRENCH FLOURISH |
 Breath deeply... there's a lot of Air around this month. While we wait for the French electro lounge lizards' follow up to 2004's Talkie Walkie (scheduled for late 2007), one half of the band has gone solo. Jean-Benoit Dunkel, now known as Darkel, releases this week his eponymous debut album, dubbing it a "funky French version of New Order." In another project, Air provides the backing to Charlotte Gainsbourg's debut 5:55. With lyrics by Jarvis Cocker and Neil Hannon, and long-time Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich at the desk, it's one import worth springing a Jackson on. Purchase Darkel on iTunes or Amazon.com, and 5:55 from Amazon.com. |
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