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Their style over time has shifted between punk, art rock, post-punk, and New Wave. Their music and stage show mingle kitsch science fiction themes, deadpan surrealist humor, and mordantly satirical social commentary. Here, at a live French show, 'They Can't Get No Satisfaction'.
Run Riot have teamed up with Lomography to give away a Diana F+ Edelweiss camera. Dating back to the early 1960’s, the all-plastic Diana camera is a cult legend. The Diana+ is a faithful reproduction and a loving homage to the classic Diana - with a few new features tossed in.
Broken Hearts at Luisa Via Roma in Florence for the Swarovski Crystal Lovers party in conjunction with Felice Limosani .
23rd & 24th April 2011
SPILL National Platform
Call for entries
Are you an artist who has been showing performance work publicly for up to three years or have performed two works in an independent public forum? Well then here's your chance to be part of SPILL Festival of Performance 2011.
In 2010, in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, art activists staged a dramatic series of performances in cultural institutions to protest against oil companies like BP and Shell sponsoring gallery spaces like the Tate. Gushing from floral skirts, spilling elegantly from giant white eggs, jetting from paint tubes across the floor of the iconic Tate Turbine Hall, the flood of oily resistance that followed has generated a fierce debate in the art world around oil, ethics and sponsorship.
Our friends at Cure Studio have created another excellent website.
About Cure Studio
Founded by James Hurst, Cure Studio is a multidisciplinary design agency who work with clients to bring a fresh creative perspective married with solid commercial understanding. Their tools are images and words and the results are both functional and beautiful.
www.curestudio.com
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Launched to mark the start of bank bonus season, a new animation is setting out to increase public pressure on government to take on the banks and not sweep reform under the carpet. It asks politicians whether they have a plan to tame the bank, and if not, why not?
The minute-long animation is inspired by Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi's description of investment bank Goldman Sachs as a giant vampire squid "sucking on the face of humanity".
