Quick nod to my mate Fats, who was on hand last Sunday at the Tate Modern for Bring the Noise. Upset I missed the day. For photographers, his use of the time to help educate the public on new trends and technologies is worth noting.

From Tate Channel.

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Neil Bedford, photographer and Bedford City Football Club supporter, has produced a fascinating series of fan portraits. Love for the club is a shared passion among all the sitters, who also all wear some version of a club tattoo. Many have “the City Gent,” a character developed in 1966 when several clubs looked to emulate the success of World Cup Willie, the mascot of that years World Cup. “The City Gent” became a popular tattoo among fans on the terraces in the 1970s. The color portraits complement a series of black and white terraces images that Bedford has also produced.

Learn more about Bedford at Fourteenfiftynine.com. (via Sang Bleu).

More examples follow.

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German painter and sculptor Stefan Szczesny presents a series of new works in “Dairy” opening tonight at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel. The material stems from two artistic interests – photography and figure study. Szczesny has been combining these two elements since 1985, juxtaposing the realism of the camera with abstract brush strokes. Some say he reminds of Matisse (in painting).

Dairy runs through April 17, 2010. 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel is located at 532 West 25th Street, New York.

More from Szczesny after the jump.

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Collaborating with Italian firm Kartell’s owner and chairman Claudio Luti, Tokujin Yoshioka has produced “The Invisibles.” The chairs, built of polycarbonate allow Yoshioka to further explore an interest in the ethereal. They may remind, in theory, of Philippe Starck’s “Ghost” chairs (similarly produced by Kartell), but take the idea further by floating the sitter completely.

In addition to the chair, Yoshioka plays with the invisible in an installation called “Snowflake” which will run at the Kartell Gallery during Milan design week 2010. (via db).

Above is a working sketch for “The Invisibles,” head to the jump to view the range directly.

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Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art opens its new Culver City space this Saturday with an exhibition of Brazilian artist Nina Pandolfo. “Life’s Flavor” will present new works by Pandolfo, ranging from sculpture to mixed media paintings on canvas. Pandolfo lives in Sao Paulo, where she remains one of the nations chief proponents of graffiti and street art.

Carmichael Gallery’s new space is located at 5795 Culver City, CA. “Life’s Flavor” runs from March 20 to April 18, 2010.

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Design collective Agent have endeavoured to create the world’s first see through soccer ball. Via electronic components the ball changes color at pivotal moments of the match… recording offsides, goals, handballs, and more. Probably not bound for adoption by the world’s top leagues, but nonetheless a fascinating notion. The above video describes it all.

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Antony Gormley’s life sized figures are slowly talking their place in the New York landscape in preparation for Event Horizon. His cast iron (4) and fiberglass (27) statues will populate Madison Square Park and the surrounding Flatiron District. The outdoor event/exhibition is a bit of a reprise of 2007’s Blind Light, where Gormley’s work originally appeared at London’s Hayward Gallery.

You can follow the installation here. And, from March 26 to August 15, 2010, check out Gormley’s work in full glory in New York. (via It’s Nice That).

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Design should make life easier. And, it should elegantly fit into a need for an everyday solution. These thoughts seem to have been on the mind when the Brit Insurance Design of the Year was selected. The official announcement was made today.

From the press release -

British student, Min-Kyu Choi from London, has won the Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2010, for his elegant reinterpretation of the humble plug, beating over 90 international nominees in the process.  Jury Chair, Antony Gormley, presented him with the award at a gala dinner held at the Design Museum.

The Folding Plug was chosen from the seven category winners as the most compelling and progressive design of the last 12 months. The jury panel consisted of artist Antony Gormley, designer Tom Dixon, Editor of Icon magazine Justin McGuirk, designer Morag Myerscough, Style Director of Grazia magazine Paula Reed, editor of Wired magazine David Rowan and writer and broadcaster Janet Street-Porter.

Antony Gormley comments ‘Thought-through, responsive and modest, the folding plug shows how intelligent, elegant and inventive design can make a difference to everyone’s life.’

Min-Kyu Choi’s inspiration came from having to carry around the world’s largest plug (UK pin plug) with the MacBook Air, the world’s thinnest laptop. In creating a plug which could fold flat for easy transportation, Choi received much praise on showcasing the plug at the Royal College of Art’s graduate show in 2009, with a brilliant and seemingly obvious improvement to a product that had changed little since its inception in 1946.

Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum comments ‘It’s great to see such a practical but elegant demonstration of what design can do to make everyday life so much better. Min-Kyu Choi is a designer just setting out on his career and he clearly has a great future ahead of him.’

The folding plug and all of this year’s shortlisted designs are on show at the Design Museum, due to the overwhelming demand the exhibition has been extended and will now run through to 31 October.

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The Civil Rights movement is subject of an exciting new exhibition at the International Center of Photography.

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A new exhibition at the International Center of Photography will offer an innovative view of the Civil Rights Movement and the catalytic social role played by changing portrayals of African Americans in the 1950s and ‘60s. Through a rich juxtaposition of visual images—including photographs, television and film clips, magazines, newspapers, books, pamphlets and posters—the exhibition shows how strategic interventions in these mediums of visual culture helped to transform prevailing attitudes toward race in America. The exhibition, organized by guest curator Maurice Berger, is titled For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, and will be on view from May 21 to September 12, 2010.

In addition to the exhibition, the ICP will publish a fully illustrated book by Berger with text by Thulani Davis. Most exciting, from my perspective, is that the book will also launch in digital form in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition (www.foralltheworldtosee.org).

Above: Ernest C. Withers, Sanitation Workers Assemble in Front of Clayborn Temple for a Solidarity March, Memphis, TN, March 28, 1968. © Ernest C. Withers, Courtesy Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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Opening this Saturday at P.P.O.W. Debris presents the work of Portia Munson, Sarah Frost, and Aurora Robson. The three artists are connected by a use of recycled mass produced plastic. They each have created standalone installations, indicative of their own artistic leaning. Munson has utilized found objects for almost 16 years, finding firm place in the art world through contribution to the “Bad Girls” exhibition at the New Museum. Frost’s work in Debris is intirely produced from discarded keys, primarily from key boards, representing business large and small and each holding its own unique history. This exhibition is her first in New York.

Finally, Aurora Robson adds large scale sculpture from her series “Landmines” to the gallery’s main room. Her reuse of found plastic forms a fantasy world with a horror twist.

Debris continues through April 24, 2010, at P.P.O.W., 511 W. 25th Street, room 301, New York.

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