ART & STYLE: McIntosh Introduces Its High-End MTI100 Turntable / Russian Artists Want You to Donate Human Blood for the Sake of Art

McIntosh has released its new MTI100 turntable, complete with a myriad of features and a sharp focus on versatility. The all-in-one high-end turntable has a 50-watt Class D amplifier, vacuum tube preamp, a shielded phono preamplifier, digital and analog outputs, and a 4.2 Bluetooth receiver.

It even had a headphone jack when you can’t utilize its subwoofer and stereo speaker outputs. The MTI100 can also play both 33-1/3 and 45 rpm vinyl records. The player has a 7 lbs aluminum platter with an aluminum tonearm, both of which are mounted on top of glass and metal that’s meant to absorb noise from within caused by its industrial grade permanent magnet AC synchronous motor.

Check out the gallery above and grab McIntosh’s MTI1000 turntable for an estimate $6,500 USD when it starts shipping at the end of January.

Russian artist Andrei Molodkin is not only widely-known for designing this $15,000 USD Supreme sample T-shirt, but also for his unconventional practice of incorporating human blood into his artworks.

Now, Molodkin and fellow artist Erik Bulativ are gearing up for a monumental exhibition called “Black Horizon.” The duo is asking visitors to donate blood to fill up giant containers sculpted into three-dimensional phrases such as “THE WALLS TURN RED” and “DEMOCRACY.” These large-scale text installations, which invoke the “aesthetic language of Soviet propaganda,” are meant to “encourage viewers to interrogate the current contemporary political landscape and the language used to express the challenges facing global alliances (fake news, Trump with NATO, Brexit, Putin testing the boundaries of the nuclear missile treaty),” added the gallery.

Those planning to attend the forthcoming exhibition at the BPS22 (Musée d’art de la Province de Hainaut) museum in Charleroi, Belgium will surely encounter a one-of-a-kind experience. “Industrial compressors will pump through medical refrigerators and tubes into empty monumental vessels that project phrases from censored underground music,” described the gallery. “The sound of the pumps, the language of drill music and blood create a striking, visceral experience.”

View select installations above and then head over to BPS22’s website to learn more. “Black Horizon” will go on view starting February 9 until May 19. Elsewhere in art, Sterling Ruby will launch a sculpture retrospective in Dallas.

BPS22
Boulevard Solvay 22
Charleroi, Belgium 6000