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| Volume 2, Issue 41. October 2006 |
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| EYE KNOW |
 Assault your senses. If you're jetting to Paris this fall to check out Monsieur Andre's Hotel Amour or just to pick up some Claude Closky Adidas at Colette, head on over to the Centre Pompidou and check out the Fabrica: Les Yeux Ouverts retrospective, celebrating Benetton's 40th anniversary. Founded in 1994 as a collaboration between Luciano Benetton and Oliviero Toscani, Fabrica is the creative research center responsible for some of the most eye-catching and often provocative visual campaigns of the last two decades, with clients ranging from Benetton to the World Health Organization. The exhibit also features extensive screenings from Fabrica Cinema, including the European preview of "Winners," a multimedia opera. Opening Oct. 6, until Nov. 6. Centre Pompidou, Place Georges Pompidou, Paris. Go to www.fabrica.it and www.centrepompidou.fr |
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| FORGING AN IDENTITY |
| Han van Meegeren had two options: remain silent and be executed, or reveal a career forging paintings by 17th-century Dutch masters and save his life. Not the easiest of decisions, explains author Frank Wynne in I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger, out this week in America from Bloomsbury. Equal parts biography, psychological thriller, art world critique, and lesson in the fine craft of forging (turns out it's more difficult than signing a name at the bottom of a painting), this fascinating page-turner is a must-read for art aficionados and museum-phobes alike. Purchase at www.amazon.com |
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| BEAT SURRENDER |
| The ultimate one-man-band returns. Electro-beats get sliced, diced, and recycled this week with the release of The Information, the latest studio offering from Beck. On a record which revisits (and reworks) the sounds of his 1996 hit Odelay, Beck has created a marketing wonder too. As if in response to the dwindling demand for hard-product (when's the last time you purchased a CD?), The Information comes in an interactive package, with a blank graph-paper cover and a set of stickers so you can play designer. On top of that, each CD is accompanied with a DVD of home movies—one to accompany each track on the album. If stickers aren't your thing, but you still want the videos, they're available on the iTunes Music Store version too. Purchase at Amazon and iTunes |
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