Call For Entries: ICFF Studios

New York's ICFF joined forces with Bernhardt Design to create a new design competition that helps emerging designers bring their prototypes to fruition. Winners of the juried award will exhibit their entries during this year's ICFF, from 20-23 May 2006, in a ICFF Studio booth to help hook them up with manufacturers and expose them to the press. Contestants can submit in any of ICFF's …

Grizzly Bear

In a time when bands like Animal Collective and Gang Gang Dance are fast becoming household names (at least among the music nerd set), Brooklyn-based Grizzly Bear comes at a rare moment when experimental music is getting its due. Their recent two-disc debut release, Horn of Plenty, is proof of avant-pop's current fertile grounds, featuring one disc of their moody melodic tracks and another remixed …

High Energy Constructs

High Energy Constructs, the latest gallery in Los Angeles' Chinatown, opens tomorrow 18 February, 2006 with a solo show by Colorado-born artist David Brady, 27. The exhibition, called "Max Jewel," is a series of sculptures made with hardware-store materials like wood, plaster, and metal and, for a gallery named after the poet Charles Olson's cry for high energy in art, the inauguration seems fitting. Closes …