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Creations d’art by Frédérique Morrel

Stools, sofas and strange animal heads coated with dancers, flowers, sceneries and sometimes even naked bodies. This weird vintage embroidery characterizes the esoteric artworks of French artist Frédérique Morrel. While Frédérique’s husband, Aaron from Kansas, takes care of the public relations,...

Matthew Rainwaters - Shoot Pictures Not People

What do you feel photographing a woman who stabbed her abusive husband 193 times? How do you get the right light-exposure for a man behind bullet-proof glass and under glaring prison lights? Matthew Rainwaters knows. The self-titled landscape photographer initially caught our attention with his s...

SALAZAR Productions – A motion picture collective

This is the story of SALAZAR Productions. It is one of those stories you will love to hear, a tale that makes you believe that anything and everything is possible when your heart is in it. In 2009 SALAZAR’s whimsical skate video, Wizard Smoke hit the Internet, and created a wave of interest in t...

Best of the Noughties - A decade in art's ecosystem

In the last decade the art world inflated to a degree that no one anticipated. The market expanded and fairs such as Art Basel and Frieze dictated the art calendar for the year. Biennials became more popular as the queues for the blockbuster exhibitions became longer. The auction houses became mo...

Ania Kuczynska’s vision of a Snow Leopard

When a Polish fashion princess started to design clothes about 10 years ago, she aimed to create something of her own. The result was her own fashion label, simply titled Ania Kuczynska. Today, Ania builds her fashion identity around what inspires her, and is one of the most celebrated designers...

Best of the Noughties - A decade in fashion

So, what was the defining style of the decade? In our first tentative trip down fashion’s memory lane, pop-specialist and Berlin fashion icon Jan Joswig guides us through the fashion-scene’s whims and wants in a decade of excess, alternately celebrating the icons but also lamenting an apparent la...

Search for the Ideal City

Cities are like living breathing organisms: unpredictable, inexplicable, ever-changing. And for the first time in history, more than half the world’s population lives in them. More than ever before, we look to cities for reinvention, and we come to them for rejuvenation, but could we also be kill...

Francesco Manacorda - Radical Nature

Visitors to London’s Barbican Art Gallery this summer and autumn encountered a dramatic, whimsical and thoroughly green alternate reality. Called Radical Nature, the impassioned and comprehensive exhibition collected 40 years of multimedia works inspired by the natural world, from luminaries like...

Gerrit Engel - Architectural Portraits

Gerrit Engel’s photography is sobering. Nothing is added, nothing taken away. He expertly isolates buildings from their familiar urban contexts; depicted alone, they gain meaning and lose function. In this new light, viewers can see them for what they are, not for what they are used. Engel’s seri...

A gift guide for the uninspired

Let’s face it: No one loves getting dull socks or underwear – unless it’s nice lingerie -- so Electronic Beats has put together a culturally savvy gift guide to inspire you before the holiday. While it’s easy to find something great, it’s harder to find great stuff within your price range. We sta...

Freestyle – Berlin’s new Frisbee shaped magazine

Round as their trademark Wham-O Frisbee, the captivating and innovative new Freestyle Magazine features insightful stories about spaced-out architecture, current fashion, worthy art and music projects -- even the occasional recipe. Daringly launched a few months ago, the team of international ed...

Best of the Noughties - Top 10 documentaries

Welcome to the fourth instalment of “Best of the Noughties”. After first focusing on music blogs, public art installations and amazing tracks, we’re now pinpointing our favourite documentary films of the last ten years. Within the last decade, documentaries have exploded into the mainstream consc...

Jet setting: Copenhagen

As one of the most affluent, efficient and seamlessly designed cities in Europe, Copenhagen is also home to a unique squatter community that has, despite countless threats of eviction, managed to survive and thrive for close to 40 years. Today the self-governing commune consists of 850 residents...

Best of the Noughties - Top 10 temporary installations

Welcome to the second instalment of “Best of the Noughties”. After zeroing in on music blogs last week, we now turn our attention to temporary public art installations, the most eye-catching movement that arose this decade. The installations we have selected display only a fraction of what is out...