melbourne. “new years eve somewhere in a eucalyptus forest a few hours west of melbourne. happy new years, crazy sea of people.”

An acclaimed DJ, singer-songwriter, and musician, Moby is credited as helping to bring electronic dance music to the masses. World renown, he has toured for the past 20 years and now has captured “the strangeness of touring” in his first book of photographs, titled Destroyed.

Born Richard Melville Hall in 1965, Moby started playing music at age 9 and taking photos a year later—shooting 35mm black-and-white film on a Nikon camera that his uncle, a New York Times and National Geographic photographer, had given him. He studied philosophy and photography in college, where he developed his own film and processed his prints in the school’s darkroom.

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Posted on: June 21st, 2011
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Shepard Fairey, Megaphone, 2011, Silkscreen and mixed media collage on paper, 41 1/2″ x 41 1/2″. Courtesy the artist and Robert Berman Gallery.

Art Chicago, the International Fair of Modern and Contemporary Art, joined forces with NEXT, the International Exhibition of Emerging Art, to present a lively mix of art, talks, performance, book signings and parties on Thursday night at the massive Merchandise Mart in Chicago. Art Chicago is hosting 120 exhibitors from more than 45 cities worldwide, while NEXT is featuring 42 cutting‐edge galleries from around the globe.

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Posted on: April 29th, 2011
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