CultureLabel has been voted onto Design Week’s Hot 50 list for 2010. Selected by an independent panel, the list honours ‘those who have gone way beyond the brief in the name of design’. We’re thrilled to be included as one of 2010 newest “truely ‘hot’ talents”- (we’ll probably put that quote on a plaque in the CultureLabel HQ!) Here’s what they said about us…
Archive for January, 2010
Opened in October 2009, The Museum of Everything proclaims itself to be ‘London’s 1st ever space for artists and creators living outside of modern society’. Having received radient reviews and accaldes in praise of the innovative collection of art we decided to take a stroll across Regent’s Park and enjoy a gander around this old dairy building turned exhibition in Primrose Hill. Exhibition no. 1 is still showing and presents a selection of works chosen by leading artists, curators and cultural figures. Contributors include the likes of music legends Jarvis Cocker and Nick Cave to leading artists such as Annette Messager, Grayson Perry, Eva Rothschild, Ed Ruscha and Richard Wentworth. Works were chosen from the extensive holdings of Musuem founder James Brett and were installed in the space to produce an often bizarre display of more than 200 drawings, paintings, sculptures, objects and installations. In an interview with the Art Newspaper Brett explained, “This project developed simply because there is no other museum or gallery in the UK devoted to this kind of marginal or discovered art…bringing interesting people and objects together and looking at what happens when these things collide.” Ultimately Brett hopes that The Museum of Everything will become the home for a broad range of work from the untrained, work that for some reason just doesn’t fit anywhere else. The museum’s current exhibition will only be until Valentine’s Day so, if you haven’t already done so you might want to take advice from the website…’get your act together and come visit before the market crashes again’. 
Sunday Express S Magazine: Text Accessories
A great opportunity has arisen to join the exciting CL team. This time we are on the hunt for a creative person to join us in the design department. You’ll be kept busy with our ongoing mission of developing great new innovations with our culture partners, and spreading the word far and wide.
This is a three month internship position ideal for all students or recent graduates at a stage of enriching their work experience. We can offer a very cool location in Great Western Studios along with artists, designers and other creative businesses. We can also reimburse any travel expenses. If it sounds of interest, please email your CV to team@culturelabel.com
That thing we said about not blowing our own trumpets….? It was a lie, check this out: Culture Label, the large online museum shop, is not a new concept – the US www.museumnetwork.com was forced to close when the dotcom bubble burst. However, www.culturelabel.com, launched last July, aims to do something different by expanding digital strategy beyond e-commerce. As museums and galleries seek other revenue streams, the online retail market seems relatively undeveloped. Founded by former managing director of Curry’s David Gilbert, national account director of Art & Business Peter Tullin and his colleague Simon Cronshaw, and Soho House magazine House creative director Florian Wupperfield, Culture Label plans to showcase the best design art and limited-edition products from more than 60 leading galleries and museums. A further section allows individual artists to sell their work. The ability to buy online may deter museum visits, but the site intends to optimise revenue by being the only place you can buy membership to museums. Culture Label aims to become more commercially savvy by expanding its offer – for example, the iPhone app Artful brings images from collections direct to handsets. *Cue smug grins* Read the Full Article.
Pringle classics such as the twinset and the argyle print will be reinterpreted by a select group of artists in a unique collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery. This collaboration marks yet another landmark in blossoming love affair between art and fashion and is a marked expression of the degree to which fashion designers are increasinglt becoming recognised as artists. Pringle Scotland has joined forces with Hyde Park’s Serpentine Gallery, commissioning such dignities as actress Tilda Swinton, Turner Prize winner Richard Wright and illustrator David Shrigley to recreate new versions of true Pringle classics in celebration of the labels 195th anniversary. Read the full story.
In celebration of the 2010 Kinetica Art Fair, Laikingland is offering a 10% discount exclusive to CultureLabel customers. This offer is available from now until 12th of February so if you’ve ever dreamed of adorning your home with quirky moving artworks now’s your chance. Why not add a touch of the macabre to your office desk with a tapping fingers sculpture by Nick Rammage? With 10% off you’ll save a hefty £45.00. You might then want to applaud yourself for your penny pinching cleverness and purchase an Applause Machine by Martin Smith. This cute clapping critter will enthusiastically applaud at the press of a button – when no one else appreciates you he’ll always be there! To claim your 10% off simply enter the offer code ‘culturelabel’ at the Laikingland check out. See the full range of Laikingland sculptures. 
CL is now pleased to announce that it will launch a matchmaking service. Valentines is coming up and though half of us are all loved up and cant wait to be showered with presies the other half is dreading the day.
If you are alone, fear no more because CL has found you the perfect man.A 6ft Roman statue from the British Museum is on sale at CL. He’s good looking, muscular the whole lot and most important there is none of that ‘what’s for dinner ?’ Or is that a cultural stereotype?
Dior have produced their own music video, teaming Oscar-winning La Vie En Rose actress Marion Cotillard with Indie Rock band Franz Ferdinand in stunning cultural collaboration. View the video online at www.ladydior.com
The Royal Academy’s hotly anticipated Van Gogh exhibition has been deemed one of the “most important exhibitions ever held at RA” by director of exhibitions Kathleen Soriano and is expected to be one of the gallery’s most successful shows to date. It is the first major show devoted to Van Gogh to be staged in London for 40 years and includes several works which have never before been displayed in the UK. The show has been ten years in the making but will finally be open to the public from 23rd January who will undoubtedly relish this unique opportunity to gain an insight into the complex mind of Vincent van Gogh. At the heart of the exhibition lies a collection of over 800 letters by the artist, his friends and family, painstakingly collected and prepared over the years by a team at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Over 35 of these original letters are displayed throughout the RA exhibition having rarely before been exhibited due to their intense fragility. Each letter is displayed in correspondence with specific paintings or drawings offering a fascinating insight into the artist’s vision, inspiration and motivation.
was curated by Ann Dumas of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in collaboration with Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Niewn Bakker of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. The Exhibition runs from 23rd January – 18th April 2010.
The show opens to the Public on Monday but you can stock up on souvenirs already. Get your hands on some great Van Gogh merchandise from the RA at CultureLabel. Amongst these you can purchase the complete illustrated and annotated edition of the artist’s letters, long prized as some of the most valuable documents in the art world this is the most complete edition ever produced.
Big news. The Phaidon Pop Up, purveyor of books we all want to own but can’t technically afford, is on sale from today until Sunday.
As I write, the entire CultureLabel team has downed tools and is heading to the store to strip its shelves bare like a group of intellectually starved locusts. We recommend you do the same, pronto.
Despite what you might suspect, we’re not just about Bambi lamps and Fox scarves here at CultureLabel, oh no. When required, we can do gadgets, we can do tech, and now we are proud to announce, we can do NASA space technology with the super cool Andrea Air Filter from super/collider. That’s right.
Back in the day (the 80s) scientists began to look at using the power of living plants to naturally rid the air of harmful pollutants. NASA’s Biohome project found that fan-assisted air circulation through plant foliage in space stations could help scrub the air of both carbon dioxide and toxins in the air.
Now from our pals at super/collider comes the Andrea Air Filter, which uses the work of the NASA technologists to purify your home. Andrea draws polluted air in, passes it across a plant’s leaves and, in doing so absorbs and metabolizes those nasty-assed pollutants that give us chesty coughs and the like. It’s been designed to perfection by Matthieu Lehanneur whose other projects also show in MoMa NY and San Fran so it looks pretty good too.
Do you think if we’re detoxing the very air that we breathe, it doesn’t matter that we fell off the January abstinence wagon on, like, 4th Jan??
See http://www.culturelabel.com/live-love-culture/ for details.
