ei Shi recently released a fresh new single. “Bassically” begins with a stalking rhythm that falls into a pulsating retro 80s groove. You can sense a shift in Tei Shi’s creative energy, the young singer’s sound keeps evolving with every note. Be sure to catch her at the following venues: 10/12 – Mercury Lounge – New York, NY * w/ …
Tei Shi Covers Beyoncé’s “No Angel”.
ei Shi recently covered Beyoncé’s “No Angel,” and the web fell into a swoon. Putting her own ethereal spin on the tune, Tei Shi flaunts an airy, but sultry bravado that allows her to really own this cover. The singer had her reasons for recording her take on the song, she told Rookie: “I heard Beyoncé when it first came out, …
Defining The Demiurge With Artist Justin Orvis Steimer
Almost a decade ago, in my earliest days living in New York City proper (I’m a Long Island boy), I met a tall, quiet, slightly shy, longhaired artist at the coolest annual improvisational jazz-meets-blues jam on the Upper East Side. This was Justin Orvis Steimer. The party, thrown every year on jazz legend “Duke” Ellington’s birthday (April 29th), took place …
Olivier Rousteing x Balmain.
Olivier Rousteing has put a rather special touch on Balmain’s Spring/Summer 2013 collection. Rousteing took a trip back a couple of decades, stunning Paris Fashion Week with extra-broad shoulders, all denim schemes, and spectacular patterns.
BOOK N°1 – Digital Version
Our first print effort was a large 9 x 12 book with 158 pages packed to the brim with cerebral sustenance! We are happy to announce that we are officially SOLD OUT of our 1st edition! And because the success of Book N°1 , we have decided to release a digital version for the low price of $4.99!
Book N°1 features Brock Davis, Alana Dee Haynes, Kathy Grayson, Tei Shi, Salomon Faye, Larry Clark, Rosario Dawson and plenty more!
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BOOK NO. 1
Our first print effort is a large 9 x 12 book with 158 pages of cerebral sustenance! And because we know how frugal the average human being is, we have set at the “economically friendly” price of $25.00 (FREE Shipping)
Book N°1 features Brock Davis, Alana Dee Haynes, Tei Shi, Salomon Faye, Larry Clark, Rosario Dawson and plenty more!
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Quiet Lunch Magazine. | Book No. 1 | Available NOW! |
oday is the day that we start shipping out the first printed edition of Quiet Lunch Magazine–but it looks as if some have gotten their hands on a copy a little earlier than expected. Legendary director Spike Lee did the right thing and grabbed a copy of Book N°1–and so should you by securing your own copy today! Our first print effort …
Quiet Lunch SS14. | Book No. 1 is Here!
ince establishing Quiet Lunch in 2010, we have dedicated ourselves to promoting the arts and its makers. Existing solely online for quite some time, we have worked diligently towards the goal of bringing our content to the realm of print. Today we are proud to announce that our dedication and diligence has paid off in the form of our FIRST EVER …
NEW Music | No. IV.
Here at Quiet Lunch Magazine we’re always listening to music. In the shower, on the can–our affinity for music never takes a break and it’s about time that we infect you with our disease. So, the QL staff has curated a 5-song SoundCloud EP consisting of fresh, groove-worthy tunes that we feel are worth a listen. Each installment is done by the numbers and …
Making HERSTORY: Women Ruled at AIPAD’s The Photography Show.
Did galleries take their cue from the masterfully curated exhibition at the Met, “The New Woman Behind the Camera” from 2021?
ARAKAWA-GINS + the Arrows of Time
Diagrams for the Imagination will be on view at Gagosian uptown at 980 Madison Avenue and 77th street, from the 5th of March through the 13th of April. The seventeen room-scale canvases and six large format works on paper are the marvelous fruit of a profound collaborative engagement between Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins that began when they met in …
Get into the LOOP with who's who in TIME BASED MEDIA
This is the best fair I have ever been to. Staged across three floors of the Almanac Hotel, LOOP Barcelona Fair (20-22 November) sits within the context of LOOP Festival which takes place across multiple venues (Galleries, Foundations, Museums) throughout the city 12 – 22 November. Established in 2003 at the dawn of hyper-connectivity (two years before YouTube), this is …
The Gratuitous Glory of Gilbane Peck
It’s a mid-October afternoon and mixed media artist Gilbane Peck is working on a series of “fine art glory hole paintings” in his corner studio in the 56 Bogart gallery and studio complex. Peck was a clear standout at this year’s installment of Bushwick Open Studios, where he also put on a short-lived, pop-up solo exhibition called Sunshine and Rainbows in …
Tim Kent Paints a New Perspective at Slag Gallery in Brooklyn
Despite showing up on motivational posters and Internet memes, there’s no concrete evidence Albert Einstein ever said: “If you can’t explain it simply, then you don’t understand it well enough.” Seems to be fake news. Still, it’s an interesting thought and one that should be applied, especially in casual scenarios where complex modern ideas are being disseminated-a bar, at dinner …
The Last Suit
I often allow a movie to marinate for a couple days before I say anything about it. If a friend asks how it was or wants my opinion I say I do not know. However, my experience with The Last Suit was different. I knew exactly how the film impacted me the second the screen faded to black, …
Donkey Days & Donkey Nights: Aaron Fowler Seizes The Moment
“Basically, I’m an artist, so I make to figure out things,” claims the mixed-media artist Aaron Fowler less than three hours before his show, Donkey Nights (June 27 – August 10, 2018), is set to open on Bowery. Fowler expresses this notion through his enormous, oceanic eyes; sensitive two-way mirrors which convey a completely justifiable exhaustion and a blissful meta-fugue state, …
Andy Mister Ascends With “New Dawn Fades” At TURN GALLERY
There’s nothing overtly didactic about 39-year-old artist Andy Mister’s solo show at TURN Gallery, New Dawn Fades. There are, however, 11 painstaking works on display featuring roughly the same number of representational images, each deftly rendered in incredible detail on monochrome paper using carbon pencil, charcoal and acrylic. The recent passing of Tom Wolfe, an at times controversial literary giant, …
Film Poetics: Spotlight on Guillermo del Toro
“Film poetics” is a term which runs parallel to the David Bordwell theory of the “historical poetics of cinema” in that it looks at the specifics of film production. Film poetics takes this a step further in stating that everything that goes into a film (set design, writing, lighting, wardrobe) harmonizes with the vision of its director to create one …
Damien Hirst: The Best and the Worst Art of 2017.
It’s not an easy feat for one art exhibition to be the best and worst of the year, but then again Damien Hirst is no ordinary artist. His sprawling exhibition “Treasures From The Wreck Of The Unbelievable,” which occupied two palatial spaces in Venice during the Biennale, was both adored by the general public and reviled by the critical press. …
Conversations with the Wind. | TERRA NOVA at Catinca Tabacaru Gallery.
It is rare to find galleries that support their artists like Catinca Tabacaru does for her CTG Collective. Tabacaru takes her group of diverse artists to the farthest reaches of the globe to find inspiration, experience new worlds, start conversations and connect with the land. In its final week at Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, the collective are exhibiting work from …
Heart on the Sleeve. | Bevon St. Louis-Brewster.
Young Bevon Brewster‘s new collection is inspired by Japanese manga (Japanese comic books) and anime. With polyester chiffon kimonos, nylon rain jackets, and heavy cotton sweatpants all imprinted with manga inspired images and Chinese lettering, it seems as mixing street wear and manga together can conjure up something tastefully interesting. Young Bevon Brewster’s new collection is inspired by Japanese manga …
Comic Con is For Cosplayers.
Comic-Con is for cosplayers—the followers, fanatics, and downright scholars of comic literature, science fiction, and pop culture. This much we hold to be true, as do the artists who engage with readers at their booths, as do the creators who monitor the enthusiasm for their products in panels. However, as our devices for self-expression merge increasingly with public marketing forums …
NEW Video. | “Dope Walk” | A$AP Ferg Feat. Cara Delevingne.
$AP Ferg successfully sums up New York Fashion Week in the new visuals for “Dope Walk.” Directed by Matt Starr with creative direction by Harry Bee, the video is a non-stop barrage of quintessential Fergenstein hijinks and, of course, dope walking. One Ferg’s stops included Jay West’s Almighty7 Pop Up at Blank Shop and our very own Michael Della Polla was there to …
Sam Smith. |x| Mary J. Blige. | Stay With Me.
am Smith performed another rhythmic reincarnation of the single, “Stay With Me,” on Good Morning America today. The latest version of the song features R&B songstress Mary J. Blige. “Stay With Me” can be found on Smith’s forthcoming debut album In The Lonely Hour due out June 17th in the States, but is available now in the UK. Smith will also be …
Gather Around Everyone.
Pornography isn’t exactly something that you can gather around and watch with your loved ones–at least not the ones that are blood related. Addressing the disconnect between family and pornography, Brian Steinhoff‘s Porn for the Whole Family is a risque series that attempts to make porn safe for family consumption through artistic censorship. Porn for the Whole Family features adult figures in compromising …
The You In Me.
Madelynn Holmes, a young illustrator from Sydney, explores the permanent effects of human interaction in her series One In Another. An abstract Frankenstein of personal relationships, the subjects in Holmes’ work seems vulnerable but unaffected. Holmes stated that the purpose of the series was to show “how people inevitably leave imprints on you and become part of you.”
The First Act: Tristan Omand.
Tristan Omand is not just another guy with a guitar. And he is certainly not just another singer-songwriter. Tristan Omand is a folk singer in the purest sense of the term. Driven by a deep understanding of the history as well as his own personal love of the folk genre, Tristan writes and performs music that combines human experiences with …
Boys Just Wanna Have Fun.
Models: Mikhael Ayoub, Nick Madrid, Matt Waters, Thatcher Dodge, Sam Saffman, Louis Mayhew, Jonathan Sampaio, Kevin Sampaio , Misha Lukianov , Brennen Steines, Issac Weber, Brendon Beck Photographer: Branislav Jankic Magazine: Bullet Editorial Curated by Francine Lucas.↓
Higgs Boson for Idiots.
We’re basically idiots so when come upon something that dumbs itself down for the good of making us smarter, we’re all over it. Scientist recently discovered a particle that could be the building block of the universe — needless to say, we’re impressed. But not impressed enough to actually try and process the complicated jargon that may involved with it …
Keeping (Father) Time.
Growing up, some of us may have had a grandfather clock in our home. It’s hourly dong chime was soothing for some, but for others it was an unwanted alarm clock. Originally designed in 1656 by Christiaan Huygens, it was once touted as the world’s most accurate timekeeper, but with more city dwellers residing in smaller living spaces with walls as thin …
Frank.
Normally on Quiet Lunch we feature art that is vivid, slightly misguided, and sometimes riddled with nudity; however, we decided to switch it up a bit by selecting an artist that brings a much needed level of refinement. Frank Caracciolo’s paintings are like stepping into a visual manifestation of your most profound thoughts. His works are everything abstract should be; …