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Vertigo.
For their Beautiful Steps installation series, artists Lang/Baumann build daring staircases in surreal real-life situations. Certainly beautiful (and sometimes scary), installation #2 on the side of a building in Switzerland definitely leans towards the latter category. Vertigo sufferers look away now. MDKtm
For more information see langbaumann.com
‘Artists are good or bad, not fashionable or unfashionable. The tragedy of art today is that it is caught up in an empty fashion game that goes against the very nature of creativity, as artists are judged to be in or out, not for their merits, but their supposed buzzy immediacy.’
Jonathan Jones The Guardian
![[09.10.12] Saatchi’s The Future Can Wait, London. MDKtm](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md69h1LmvR1qlk0wxo1_500.jpg)
Smashing.
It’s not unusual to see abandoned buildings with smashed windows in run down parts of a city. But it is unusual to see every window – all 312 of them – cracked and smashed in exactly the same way. This warehouse in Hackney, London is just a – erm – stone’s throw away from the Olympic Stadium and has been reborn as an art piece by Alex Chinneck. He painstakingly replaced all the windows with 1,248 identically broken pieces of glass, brilliantly regenerating the forgotten building by – ironically – destroying it even further. Sadly, the destruction becomes final in November when the warehouse is due for demolition. MDKtm
Telling the Truth Through False Teeth by Alex Chinneck is on the corner of Mare Street and Tudor Road in Hackney, London E9 7SN. Until November 2012. See alexchinneck.com
Design. Covered.
Creative arts publishers Lawrence King are celebrating their twentieth anniversary this year. Firm favourites of the MDKtm bookshelf, their books on art, design and architecture are as beautifully covered as the subjects inside. Their latest must-have is the first ever book to be published on the American design icon Saul Bass. MDKtm
