The 14th Factory is a monumental, multiple-media art installation that will transform an empty industrial warehouse near downtown Los Angeles into a mythic universe created collaboratively through video, installation, sculpture, sound, paintings, and live performance. The 14th Factory weaves together elements of popular cultureβscience fiction, punk music, graphic novels, and filmβwith critical re-examinations of social and historical narratives, especially interconnections between East and West. Conceived by Hong Kong-based British artist Simon Birch, the vision of The 14th Factory is to create a new, independent paradigm for socially-engaged art, a kind of guerilla action where art occupies and re-energizes underutilized or even derelict urban spaces and gifts them back to the community in the form of a transformative experience. Click here to learn more about the project and find visiting times. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Each x Other Fall/Winter 2017 Collection Collaboration With Robert Montgomery During Paris Fashion Week
photographs by Flo Kohl
What I Loved: Selected Works from the β90s @ Regen Projects In Los Angeles
Regen Projects presents a group exhibition entitled What I Loved: Selected Works from the β90s. The 1990s marked a pivotal moment in American history and contemporary art. It was a time of economic recession, the first Gulf War, the Los Angeles riots, 24-hour news, the advent of the Internet and the dot-com bubble, and the fall of Communism. Regen Projects, which opened in 1989, developed alongside and in response to these events and established a roster of artists whose work expressed the zeitgeist of the times. What I Loved takes its name from Siri Hustvedtβs 2003 novel, which looks back at the constellation of relationships and events in the New York art world circa 1975 to 2000 through the eyes of an art historian and critic. Similarly, this exhibition revisits these formative years and brings together a group of artists who came of age during this time, and whose work became part of the critical discourse for addressing issues of race, gender, sexuality, identity politics, globalization, and the AIDS crisis, among others. Artists featured in the exhibition include Matthew Barney, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Rachel Harrison, Mike Kelley, Toba Khedoori, Karen Kilimnik, Byron Kim, Liz Larner, Glenn Ligon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Marilyn Minter, Catherine Opie, Raymond Pettibon, Elizabeth Peyton, Jack Pierson, Lari Pittman, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Gary Simmons, Wolfgang Tillmans, Kara Walker, Gillian Wearing, Lawrence Weiner, Sue Williams, and Andrea Zittel. What I Loved: Selected Works from the β90s will be on view until April 13, 2017 at Regen Projects in Los Angeles. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
A Sneak Preview Of Kerry James Marshall's 35-Year Retrospective "Mastry" @ MoCA In Los Angeles
MOCA presents a 35-year retrospective of painter Kerry James Marshall, co-organized by the MCA Chicago, MOCA, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art under the leadership of MOCAβs Chief Curator Helen Molesworth. Marshallβs figurative paintings have been joyful in their consistent portrayal of African Americans. The now nearly 600 year history of painting contains remarkably few African American painters and even fewer representations of black people. Marshall, a child of the civil rights era, set out to redress this absence. βYou canβt be born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1955 and grow up in South Central [Los Angeles] near the Black Panthers headquarters,β Marshall has said, βand not feel like youβve got some kind of social responsibility. You canβt move to Watts in 1963 and not speak about it. That determined a lot of where my work was going to goβ¦β Kerry James Marshall "Mastry" will be on view from March 12 to July 3, 2017 at MoCA in Los Angeles. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Roe Ethridge "American Spirit" @ Andrew Kreps Gallery In New York
Roe Ethridge "American Spirit" will be on view until April 8, 2016 at Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York. photographs by Adam Lehrer
Chrome Hearts And Bella Hadid Collaboration Launch @ Club Matignon During Paris Fashion Week
photographs by Flo Kohl
A Paris Fashion Week Diary From The Fall Winter 2017 Collections by Flo Kohl
photographs by Flo Kohl
Highlights From The 2017 Armory Show Art Fair At Pier 92 and 94 In New York
photographs by Adam Lehrer
Highlights From The 2017 Independent Art Fair @ Spring Studios Tribeca In New York
photographs by Adam Lehrer
Highlights From The Spring Break Art Fair @ 4 Times Square In New York
photographs by Adam Lehrer
Ryan McGinley "Early" @ Team Gallery In New York
Team Gallery presents a show of early work by Ryan McGinley. The photographs on view in this exhibition were made by Ryan McGinley in New York City from 1999 to 2003, a period defined by hopelessness for many Americans β synonymous with the onset of the Bush Era, 9/11 and its aftermath. These vΓ©ritΓ© images, which pre-date his famed βroad tripβ series, capture the exploits of the artistβs social circle, members of an outlaw creative community based in New Yorkβs Lower East Side. This body of work β a significant addition to the legacy of American subculture photography forged by the likes of Peter Hujar, David Wojnarwicz, Philip-Lorca diCorcia and Nan Goldin β is characterized by McGinleyβs idiosyncratic admixture of hopefulness and self-awareness, as well as his unembarrassed disclosure of the melodrama of youth, its inextricably intertwined joy and heartbreak: the artist shows us his debauched, frequently naked friends, laughing and weeping, taking drugs and having sex, tagging walls and pissing off roofs. Ryan McGinley "Early" will be on view until April 1 at Team Gallery, 83 Grand Street, New York. photographs by Adam Lehrer
Paperwork NYC Presents "Borrowed Time" A Group Show Featuring Erik Brunetti, Brad Phillips, Heron Preston and Nate Walton @ 3125c The Void in Los Angeles
photographs by Liv Hoffman
Watch The Debut of The Music Video For She-Devils' Track "The World Laughs"
Montreal duo She-Devils announce their signing to Secretly Canadian and share a brand new single, βThe World Laughs,β along with an official video. Through primitive electronic gear, hypnotist vocals, and an βamusement park of soundsβ, the duo of Audrey Ann Boucher and Kyle Jukka constructs a fun-house world of beautiful chaos. The music is built from original sonics inspired by everything from Iggy Pop to Madonna to T-Rex to Can, as well as the romantic longing of β60s yΓ©-yΓ©. She-Devils will play a special, intimate performance at The Glove in Bushwick, Brooklyn today. Click here to purchase tickets.
Philippe CognΓ©e "Crowds" @ Galerie Templon in Paris
photograph by Mazzy-Mae Green
Ellen Von Unwerth "Heimat" After Party Hosted By Nikhil Ra And Los Angela in Los Angeles
photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Highlights From Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair 2017 @ MoCA, Los Angeles
photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Ellen Von Unwerth "Heimat" Book Launch And Opening @ Taschen Gallery in Los Angeles
Click here to purchase Heimat. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Doug Aitken And Legendary Actor Udo Kier At The Desert X Preview Cocktail Party
photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Mathieu Cesar Photographic Exhibit @ Maxfield Gallery In Los Angeles
photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Highlights From The Preview Of Desert X Biennial In The Coachella Valley Featuring 16 Artists
Desert X is an International contemporary site-specific art exhibition taking place throughout the Coachella Valley, featuring 17 artists, from February 25 to April 30. Highlights include Richard Prince's "Third Place" and Doug Aitken's "Mirage." Click here to learn more about Desert X. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper