The Walkmen x Etsy

Indie rock meets indie design to celebrate a new album

For their new album Lisbon, Brooklyn band The Walkmen wrote several songs during their many visits to the Portuguese capital. But when it came time to think about merch, the group looked a little closer to home, tapping the DIY experts at Etsy. The upshot—t-shirts, limited-edition silkscreened inserts, and a hand silk-screened album poster—connects the indie music world with indie design…and Portugal. Pittsburgh artist Andy …

Murakami Versailles

Japanese pop art takes up residence in France's most famous gilded halls

While Versaille’s latest contemporary art installation doesn’t officially open until tomorrow, controversy over the show has already been brewing for months. Like when Jeff Koons’ 2008 retrospective was shown at the baroque château, some see Takashi Murakami‘s whirlwind of manga-inspired works as out of place at the historic site. On a recent visit to the palace, we found that this sense of displacement makes the …

The Illusionist

From the director of Triplets of Belleville, a beautifully-animated adaption of Jacques Tati's final script

Based on a 40 year old script by legendary filmmaker Jacques Tati, Sylvain Chomet’s long-awaited followup is more than just an homage to the comedic Frenchman’s genius. “The Illusionist,” rendered in painstaking detail, tells a poignant story of the inevitability of change—in many ways it’s a metaphor for the craft of hand-drawn 2D animation itself. (We highly recommend checking out the above trailer and the …