Foreign Neighbors: A Solo Show by SiMPLE

The vibrant US debut of the Sweden-based artist and more, curated by a NYC collective

Tomorrow, 28 September 2013, creative collective Foreign Neighbors unveils its inaugural New York City exhibition. The event will be the US debut of German-born, Sweden-based artist SiMPLE, whose work modernizes Cubist sensibilities with graffiti freedom. However, the show isn’t only about art. Foreign Neighbors co-founder Nader Rajab says the process behind and inception of both the collective and the launch as an “organic process, playing …

New York Art Book Fair 2013

From books just containing commas to sublime photography, our publication picks from the recent event

This year the New York Art Book Fair sprawled into the courtyard and filled the three floors of MOMA’s PS1 building in Long Island City. The fair, which is one of the largest art book fairs in the world, welcomes a wide array of publications—from artists’ books, to catalogs and monographs, to periodicals and zines. We scoured the many thousands of publications and selected some …

BL-NK Hackney

An ephemeral open venue in the heart of London's creative and tech community

Uses for community spaces are continually changing, along with the people and industries that inhabit them. As once quiet peripheral urban areas become revived and rapidly developed, certain opportunities arise for innovative use of space. One such area is the east London Borough of Hackney—home to the UK’s burgeoning tech, web and design community aptly dubbed Tech City. When an upcoming development rendered a 3,200-square-foot …