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Kriskadecor’s Feel Free System Allows Chain Structures To Stand on Their Own
We’ve shared with you the creativity that Kriskadecor can bring to design with its chain link structures before, but the brand’s latest innovation takes its capabilities further by eliminating structural needs – like walls and ceilings – altogether. Feel Free is a self-standing system designed by estudi{H}ac – JMFerrero that allows for chain structures to be installed nearly anywhere, allowing for their use in most projects and locations. It’s an ideal solution for carving out flexible spaces, thanks to customizable height, shape, and color. The addition of the minimal, one-piece system opens up a world of possibilities for chain compositions that match a creative vision. The customer chooses the color, and Kriskadecor makes it a reality, even reproducing logos and images in high definition with different finishes and colors.
With the Feel Free system, it’s possible to create airy, luminous multidisciplinary areas through light partitions that provide a sense of spaciousness. It’s an invitation to design new interior and exterior spaces – coworking areas, waiting rooms, terraces, gardens, and more – without the hard definition of walls or fences. Simple to install and easy to move, Feel Free evolves according to the project’s needs.
The core of Feel Free is an extendable vertical axis, featuring a base that has minimal visual impact while providing needed stability to the structure. It’s a subtle technical element that supports the new Quad rail, which can be arranged in straight or curved lines. An interchangeable top cap, designed to join the Quad rails together, allows for the creation of an entire system of unique spatial forms and modular compositions.
As for sustainability, the Feel Free system comprises a base and a steel mast that can be easily separated for recycling. Both the Quad and the chains are made of aluminum, a material that can be infinitely recycled without losing its original quality. In addition, Kriskadecor’s links include 20% recycled material, which contributes to reducing the brand’s carbon footprint.
Kriskadecor offers a wide range of chain link structure applications overall: from monochrome surfaces to designs that include the reproduction of logos, images, and patterns. With each link acting as a pixel, and a wide palette of anodized colors in brilliant and satin finishes, the sky is the limit!
Meanwhile, the brand new Luxe Color Edition was created with the aim of allowing for complete customization. Its epoxy coating makes it possible to use all colors of the RAL and Pantone charts on the chains, while the quality of the process used provides a soft touch and durability, guaranteeing a unique finish.
Learn more about the Feel Free system and Kriskadecor’s capabilities at kriskadecor.com.
SLAM brings more contemporary Native American artwork to St. Louis this summer
The Native American artwork familiar to many viewers tends to be traditional, historic creations. But a new exhibition at the St. Louis Art Museum brings a different focus — abstraction.
Called SLAM’s first exhibition of contemporary and modern Native American art, the paintings, sculptures and textiles highlight post-World War II creations that likely are less-known than the much-hyped work from the New York scene.
“Who Knows” (mid-20th century) by Christine Nofchissey McHorse, Navajo
“Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s-1970s” expands on SLAM’s 2008 exhibition on abstraction, says Alexander Brier Marr, associate curator of Native American art. It will “help visitors to see our historic collection of Native American art in new ways.”
The 80-plus-piece exhibition happens to complement other current exhibitions that highlight contemporary Native American pieces: the Luminary’s “Counterpublic” and the Pulitzer Arts Foundation’s “Faye HeavyShield: Confluences.” Using the next few weeks to see all three will be a valuable experience for St. Louis art lovers. In addition, HeavyShield’s work is at SLAM’s Donald Danforth Jr. Gallery 322.
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“This spring and summer, contemporary Native American art has been much more visible across St. Louis than any of the last seven years I’ve been here,” Marr says. He believes that St. Louis museums are responding to increasing national focus on contemporary Native works. Plus, he points out: “There is strong Indigenous history here.”
Yet, SLAM did not own a postwar Native painting until this year, when it purchased Fritz Scholder’s 1966 oil “New Mexico #45.” Filling that gap in the museum’s collection had been a priority, Marr says.
Other works by Scholder will be part of the exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Artworks on display will include those by Lloyd Kiva New, Linda Lomahaftewa, Alfred Young Man, T.C. Cannon, Anita Fields, Christine Nofchissey McHorse and many others. The St. Louis museum adds a few dozen more works to the traveling exhibition.
“Untitled (Dark Landscape)” (ca. 1960) by John Hoover, Aleut
A difference between the abstract work of Native American artists and New York painters such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning is that the Native artists sometimes refer to their tribes’ ancestral forms, Marr says. The abstractions may include traditional colors, geometric shapes or symbolic images.
Abstraction offered Native artists a way to experiment and also to connect their art to emerging movements. One of the featured artists, George Morrison (Chippewa), worked in New York, where he exhibited and was associated with avant-garde painters there.
“New Mexico #40” (1966) by Fritz Scholder, American and Luiseño
Although he originally considered himself an abstract expressionist first, Morrison later started exploring his American Indian heritage. (Conversely, Pollock, who grew up in Arizona, is said to have been influenced by Native art he saw there while young; he also witnessed sand painting in 1941 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which is also believed to have been an influence.)
Marr expects that this new exhibition of Native American abstraction will surprise some visitors, while others may be more familiar with it. But even he was impressed by a Santa Fe show in 2008: “The depth of abstraction blew me away.”
What “Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s-1970s” • When June 23-Sept. 3; hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday and Saturday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday (closed Monday) • Where St. Louis Art Museum, 1 Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park • How much $12, $10 for seniors and students, $6 for children 6-12; free for children 5 and under, for members and to all on Fridays • More info slam.org
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Empowering women through the art of photography
ESCANABA, Mich. (WLUC) – Empowering women through photography: welcome to a Hello shoot with Photographer Holly Nylund.
“Picture yourself being photographed as the cover story of a magazine and this is the photo shoot that goes along with that story,” says Nylund.
TV6′s Tia Trudgeon got in front of the lens to experience a Hello shoot for herself.
Nylund tells Trudgeon that photography can be a great tool to help women see the best in themselves.
TV6’s Tia Trudgeon chats with Photographer Holly Nylund about her mission to empower women through the art of photography.
The photoshoot included a hair and makeup appointment with Mckenna Pepin at Salon West.
Trudgeon was photographed in five outfits, in five different scenes at Nylund’s Studio Space in Downtown Escanaba.
The shoot wrapped up at Blackrocks in Marquette.
“So we’re gonna show all the sides of you. We’re gonna wear something extravagant, something out there and wild, but we’re also gonna show that stripped-down natural beauty,” Nylund tells Trudgeon. “We’re gonna show your soft side, your strong side, your fun side. However you dream of being photographed, I wanna make it happen so that you can see yourself the way other people see you.”
TV6’s Tia Trudgeon is the subject of a “Hello” photoshoot with Photography Holly Nylund.
Nylund is currently booking photo shoots into the fall. Her Studio Space is available for other photographers to rent.
You can check out her other offerings and book her services at hollynylund.com.
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EA’s CMO reveals how he’ll keep the video game giant’s soccer franchise rolling without FIFA branding
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- EA’s “FIFA” series is a big revenue driver, but its next soccer video game won’t have that branding.
- CMO David Tinson reveals his plan to drive fans to EA’s new soccer franchise EA Sports FC.
- Losing FIFA branding gives EA opportunities to work with more brand partners than before.
Electronic Art’s marketing muscle is going to have to do some heavy lifting this year to build a new powerhouse brand around its soccer video game series.
“Our global football business is one of the biggest properties,” EA CMO David Tinson told Insider. “It’s our biggest business. It’s, frankly, one of the biggest pieces of sports or entertainment IP in the world.”
In 2022, EA and FIFA ended a licensing partnership that lasted nearly three decades and helped make the “FIFA” video game series the most popular sports franchise of all time. Its latest and last installment with the FIFA branding, “FIFA 23,” was the top seller in the franchise’s entire history, company CEO Andrew Wilson said during EA’s latest quarterly earnings call. And the “FIFA” franchise, which also includes mobile games, online services, esports leagues, and competitions, was a major revenue driver for EA.
This year, the tried-and-true branding is going away, and EA is going to release a new slate of soccer video games and services under a completely new brand: EA Sports FC.
“We’ve been building equity in the name of the game as “FIFA” for 30 some-odd years,” Tinson said. “And we’re making a branding switch now. So that’s going to be our constant challenge and our job as marketers: to help ensure that there is awareness of that change and that there’s a real affinity for what we’re delivering in the product itself.”
For nearly a year and a half, Tinson said, he and his team have been moving to establish this new brand, with the product launching under the new name this Fall. The most prominent offering will be EA’s next soccer video game, which is rumored to be coming out in late September, based on EA’s history releasing “FIFA” games around that time.
“From a pure go-to market standpoint, you’re seeing us introduce more about the brand earlier than we often would,” Tinson said. For instance, EA announced the new branding as early as April, when it unveiled some of the soccer stadiums that would be featured in the game, including FC Barcelona’s Camp Nou.
This is a key component to making sure fans of the “FIFA” franchise glom onto the new one.
“We’ve done extensive research and we’ve spent a ton of time with our community and understand that they want a great playing game, and they want a great game that’s authentic,” Tinson said.
Fans want the game to feature real stadiums, and they want to control real players and real clubs, like Real Madrid, Manchester United, and FC Barcelona, Tinson said. A lot of EA’s marketing is designed to solidify that even though the overall franchise has changed names. The players, teams, and stadiums will still be recognizable for fans.
“There’s a lot that we’re doing to reinforce the authenticity of the experience,” Tinson said.
At the same time, EA has been able to open up EA Sports FC to more brand partnerships which it hadn’t been able to do under FIFA’s licensing restrictions. For instance, EA announced a partnership with Nike in June, to sell Nike “digital goods” in EA sports games. “We’re able to collaborate in ways that we weren’t before,” Tinson said.
Still, Tinson is aware that much of EA’s fortunes will hinge on the success of the new, FIFA-less EA Sports FC franchise.
“This is a major moment for our whole company,” he said. “We had a small core group that looked at the business case for it and have navigated this complicated, but exciting and energizing move for the business.”
Months After Adding Nan Goldin to Its Roster, Gagosian Hires a Veteran Photography Curator in Newly Created Director Role
Gagosian Gallery is doubling down on photography, anointing a dedicated director—who comes with serious institutional credit—to a newly created role at the helm of that department.
Joshua Chuang, who will officially join the gallery this month, previously held curatorial and leadership positions at the New York Public Library, the Center for Creative Photography, and Yale University Art Gallery. In his new role, Chuang will oversee a global strategy for engaging with and exhibiting artists working with the photographic medium.
“With recent and upcoming presentations of the work of Richard Avedon, Roe Etheridge, Andreas Gursky, Sally Mann, Taryn Simon, and Jeff Wall, alongside the addition to our roster of artists including Nan Goldin, Deana Lawson, and the estate of Francesca Woodman, Josh’s appointment comes at a particularly dynamic time for the gallery,” said Kara Vander Weg, the gallery’s senior director. “We are thrilled to welcome him.”
In a phone interview with Artnet News, Chuang said he has been in discussions with the gallery for the past several months. “The gallery has represented some iconic photographers. I think it hasn’t, however, thought of the medium of photography as a program within its larger exhibition program, and when I began talking to them it seemed very clear to me that they wanted to change that.”
Goldin, one of the world’s most famous photographers, joined the gallery in late March, leaving her longtime representation at Marian Goodman Gallery.
What piqued Chuang’s interest “was also this larger conversation about what the gallery, with its platform, could do with the medium of photography at this present moment in time,” he said.
A number of artists in the existing gallery roster employ photography, Chuang noted. “Not only Taryn Simon, Roe Etheridge, and Sally Mann, but Michael Heizer made photographs. Ed Ruscha was a photographer,” he said.
Most recently, Chuang was the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach associate director for art, prints, and photographs, as well as the Robert B. Menschel senior curator of photography at the New York Public Library. His six years at the NYPL followed two years as the chief curator at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Ariz., and nine years at Yale University Art Gallery in various curatorial positions. He has also produced photo books, and has worked with Steidl, Yale University Press, MACK, and Aperture to realize more than two dozen monographs.
While Chuang said his passion for highlighting the medium and its stars won’t change when he makes the leap from a curatorial and institutional context to a commercial gallery, but “obviously the resources” are more robust. “This machine is much more agile. It can respond more quickly to things going on in the world.”
Chuang will likely work out of Gagosian’s Madison Avenue branch but will also float as needed to oversee various shows. A major show of work by Richard Avedon continues through July 7 at the gallery’s 21st Street location in Chelsea.
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Influencer Criticizes Photographers For Not Taking Her Picture on Red Carpet
An influencer has criticized photographers for not taking her picture on the red carpet because they didn’t think she was “hot enough.”
In a TikTok video, with over 8.5 million views, content creator Tiff Baira started a social media debate about photographers after she shared footage of her posing on the red carpet.
@tiffbaira WILL NEVER LET A MAN OR A CAMERA MAN STEEL MY CONFIDENCE BUT THIS WAS HUMBLING 😂! #fyp #redcarpet #nyc #embarassing #newyork #dating ♬ Oh No – Kreepa
In the video, Baira from New York City lingers on the red carpet, eagerly waiting for a photographer to take her picture.
The influencer, who has over 224,000 followers on TikTok, remains in front of the cameras in anticipation that her photograph will be taken.
However, when she eventually realizes that the photographers are not going to take her picture, Baira awkwardly laughs and starts to make her exit from the red carpet.
In the caption for the clip, Baira suggested that she was snubbed by photographers because she was not deemed attractive enough by the paparazzi.
“When you’re on a red carpet and nobody took a photo because I guess they didn’t think I was hot enough,” the influencer writes.
In a further comment accompanying her video, Baira recalled her embarrassment at not being photographed saying that she will never let a “cameraman steal my confidence” again.
‘You Deserve to Be Photographed’
The viral video fuelled a debate on social media about the role of photographers. Several TikTok users expressed their sympathy for Baira and called the photographers “mean” for not taking her picture on the red carpet.
Another viewer felt sorry for the “embarrassment” paparazzi caused Baira and declared that “she deserved to be photographed.”
Meanwhile, other influencers shared their similar negative experiences with photographers at events.
“Sadly this has happened to many of us. So disappointing,” a model comments.
Another influencer writes: “This happened to me at Beautycon six years ago. I almost died. I promise it gets better.”
Photographers Have a Job to Do
However, other viewers said that Baira’s suggestion that she was unfairly overlooked by photographers on the red carpet for not being “hot enough” was completely unfounded.
A viewer responded that Baira looked “fantastic” but photographers “can’t waste film by taking pictures of everyone.”
Other social media users said that event photographers had a job to do on the red carpet and they simply did not know who Baira is.
“It has nothing to do with your looks, they obviously just don’t know you are,” a viewer comments. “With only 224,000 followers, that’s honestly not a lot.”
Another social media user similarly writes: “It’s not because you’re not hot enough, it’s because you’re not well known.”
Other TikTok users attempted to advise Baira for future red carpet appearances. They suggested that she be accompanied by a publicist or assistant with a name card so that photographers knew to take her picture.
PetaPixel previously reported on a model who sparked a furious debate on social media regarding photoshoots in public spaces after she became enraged with people getting in the way of her shot in a busy train station.
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