For the 2011 London Restaurant Festival, The Minotaur will turn into an underground pop-up restaurant, taking over the tunnels beneath the Old Vic, and offering food made by top Michelin-starred chefs from across Europe. The Minotaur, which will stay open from October 10 through the 25, will fuse fashion, art and food by transforming the tunnels into a “labyrinthine gallery of cutting-edge artwork and film” alongside the world-class restaurant and lounge.

The Minotaur is run by Kofler & Kompanie, pioneers behind European pop-up restaurant Pret a Diner. A three course meal at Pret a Diner including entrance to the exhibition will be priced at £75. Bookings will be available at 7pm and 9pm and tickets will be on sale from 10 September 2011. For more information, check www.theminotaur.co.uk.

Eric Elms recently posted these pictures of golden “” and “z” keys, the ones he says “we are constantly pressing to go back in time.” How clever.

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These photos has been tumbled, reblogged and and shared exponentially, but INSA’s “Girls on Bikes” installation is an ongoing project. Like the title suggests, “Girls on Bikes” works with volunteer models, bikes, and large scale, public painted walls by INSA. From INSA:

In this set of photographic works INSA orchestrates a conflicting dialogue between all the elements and explicitly subordinates the value of his own street art to both the possessed object of the bike and the overtly sexualized female presence. Thus questioning our individual perceptions of ownership of public space, of sexuality and of belongings.

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From the gallery:

The Guerrilla Girls, a group of anonymous artist-activists, critique the sexism and racism pervading contemporary culture. Through their populist art production, which includes posters, books, and live performances in which they wear gorilla masks, the group raises awareness about discrimination. This exhibition presents posters and ephemera including works from two portfolios, Guerrilla Girls Talk Back: The First Five Years, 1985-1990 and Guerrilla Girls Talk Back: Portfolio 2. The rousing works on view expose inequity and hypocrisy in the art world and political realm and illustrate the Guerrilla Girls’ call to be proactive — and even “make trouble” — in promoting positive social change.

The exhibit runs through October 2.

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Photographer Remi Rebillard is not a stranger to fetishes and sexual taboos; his portfolio is a grid of NSFW-heavy images with dark undertones that somehow remain alluring.

In an editorial featuring shoes by designers like Giuseppe Zanotti, Gucci, Jimmy Choo, Manolo Blahnik, Prada, Roger Vivier, and Valentino, Rebillard sidesteps glamour and opts for an sensual yet eery series of images that will have viewers wondering whose bodies are attached to the dangling feet. It’s Wicked Witch of the East meets 21st-century luxury and sex appeal.

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Chocolate-covered strawberries are to be expected, but ceramicist Rebecca Wilson turns fruit into enticing mini sculptures of the female form in a body of work titled “Eat Me; Keep Me.”

“In exploring the parallels between ‘valuable’ and ‘everyday’ I have drawn a symmetry of opposites between porcelain and confectionary items; both are similarly self indulgent, inspire desire and are coveted, but both are fundamentally frivolous. I aim to remove the formality of the materials so they simply drip with the desire of momentary self-indulgence.”

Wilson’s Dirty Rotten Peaches are cast in stained porcelain, and details are delicately piped using an icing bag. The fruits transform  into voluptuous ladies bottoms sprouting delicate gold leaves and other unmentionable creamy things.

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Tamaya, a company specializing in plastic and resin kits and accessories for modellers, recently debuted a set of print advertisements featuring conspiracies around Elvis Presley, Roswell, the Moon Landing, JFK’s assassination, and Marilyn Monroe suicide. Like a puzzle, the “Tamiya Put It Together” kits are supposed to force viewers to form the story for each individual conspiracy, with the step-by-step process shedding light on its falsehood or truths.

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The luxury vehicle manufacturer recently revealed its model for the Porsche Design P’4911 baby stroller, which blends materials such as carbon fiber, aluminum and ball-bearing wheels into a model that is better suited for young boy toddlers whose parents have an affinity for masculine detail. The design is minimal and sleek, and folds up to fit in the trunk. The price has not been determined yet, but if it’s anything like its parent vehicle, the asking amount will not be cheap.

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You don’t usually go to a museum or gallery expecting to ponder the existence of an external hard drive, but this is not your typical art piece. In a piece that rebels against the notion that we all must buy into the multitude of software programs available in the mark, “5 Million Dollars, 1 Terabyte” is an actual hard drive containing 1,016 GB of pirated software and files, including pricey packes such as Rosetta Stone, Adobe Suite, and gaming galore.

Manuel Palou tells Animal New York that the hard drive also contains Fiction Library, which is a program containing every single fiction book publish from 2003 to 2011. Who needs a kindle?

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After a successful solo retrospective exhibit in Dubai, the English-born artist Simon Coates will now call Dubai home after being chosen for an artist-in-residence program for the city’s Gallery of Light. Coates forthcoming body of work will develop under the title “Birth of the Locust,” which will serve as a counterpoint to the more traditional contemporary art in Dubai. The city, notorious for its man-made beauty and attraction of wealth, has gained a reputation as a worldwide target for commerce and tourism.

In addition to paintings, Coates will put together installation pieces that will question some of the city’s inherent issues, including obesity and poor conditions for migrant workers.