Yondering, The Stone NYC Brad Kahlhamer: "Yondering" Path-minding vignettes and stories, spirit meandering, signseeker-walkabouts (2/20/2011) via thestonenyc.com: Laurie Anderson and Anna Brenner invite you to Stone Open House From the practical to the theoretical, SOH will be a place to hang out, drink great coffee, read, listen to unusual presentations and invent alternative ways to live and work. Part think tank, part party, SOH will host a series of presentations that cover a wide range of topics- from the history of boilers to teaching music to dogs. SOH will present a library of must-read books for people interested in expanding in unpredictable ways. City Arts CityArts (excerpt on album artwork): "I did a lot of roaming while working on Life Fantastic. I’m still not living anywhere. I’m still drifting, but it’s a more centered drifting. I was down in Texas visiting my dad and we went to the contemporary art museum. We saw a Weird America exhibit, the only thing that grabbed my eye were these paintings by this artist Brad Kahlhamer. I connected with them because they were chaotic, violent, and beautiful… The three sculptures in the album artwork are by him…They embody birth, life, and death. The guy on the cover is birth, it represent the playful side of the album." via cityartsonline.com Man Man, Life Fantastic Album Artwork (Paste Magazine / Electric Wonder Creative / The Deli Magazine) See more of Life Fantastic album design at Electric Wonder Creative Paste Magazine: Catching Up With Man Man (excerpt on album artwork): "When you look at the full album, it’s actually a triptych. During this whole period, I was down in Texas visiting my dad. We went to go see a concert in Houston (he lives in Austin) and had time to kill. So we went to the contemporary art museum. It had a Weird America exhibit, and Brad Kahlhamer…is this New York artist who’s been doing this for a really long time. I connected to it because I thought they were really beautiful, dark images. I was turned onto his totems, which there are hundreds of…I picked three that are kind of like birth, living and death. It translates when you see the whole thing—we wanted to have a stark, simple image." via pastemagazine.com Read about Man Man's Life Fantastic at The Deli Magazine Sisley Art Project [link] Gazetteer / artcritical.com click above images to enlarge [link] Black Rainbow Extraordinaire Magazine click above images to enlarge [link] Very Magazine click above images to enlarge Beautiful Decay click above images to enlarge Vogue Italia click above images to enlarge Dazed and Confused click above images to enlarge Pasatiempo click above images to enlarge Flash Art click above images to enlarge New York Times click above images to enlarge New Art Examiner click above images to enlarge Artforum click above images to enlarge Interview Magazine click above images to enlarge New York Times click above images to enlarge