Rock Seen

December 2, 2011

Sex Pistols & Rotten, Johnny & Vicious, Sid & Jones, Steve & Coo

The Fahey/Klein Gallery is presents a selection of photographs from Bob Gruen’s newly released monograph, “Rock Seen” (Abrams, 2011). For forty years, Bob Gruen has been documenting the rock scene, capturing now iconic images of The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Led Zeppelin, New York Dolls, Blondie, The Ramones, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono among others. Bob Gruen says of his career and recent publication, “Photography has led me to some great experiences and enduring relationships. Blurring the line between work and play, many of the people I met through my work have become friends; some are like family to me. You can look at [“Rock Seen”] as a collection of my work, or simply as the family album of my life.” (“Rock Seen” Book Introduction by Bob Gruen). On view through January 14, 2012 – The Fahey/Klein Gallery is located at 148 North La Brea, between First Street and Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles, CA 90036.

Psychic Dancehall- "Dreamers"

October 3, 2011

Formally known by their pseudonyms Dorian Wartime and Sylvia Innocent, non-platonic duo Psychic Dancehall are, in fact, Charles Rowell from the Crocodiles and Hollie Cook, daughter of Sex Pistols drummer Paul and The Slits’ most junior member. Having first met in 2006, their debut album Dreamers came out September of 2011.

Art Meets Rock

August 31, 2011

RICHARD KERN, Nirvana, Courtney Love

left: WILLIAM ENGLISH, Vivienne Westwood in Sex, 1975, courtesy of Maggs Brothers, London right: URS LÜTHI, Un'isola dell'aria, 1975, particolare, 28 fotografie, cm60x50 cad, Collezione Fabio e Virginia Gori

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IAIN FORSYTH & JANE POLLARD, A Rock'N'Roll Suicide, 1998, Live performance, Photo: David Cowlard courtesy Kate MacGarry, London

Museo Pecci di Prato in Florence, Italy presents an exhibition entiled LIVE! Art Meets Rock. The exhibition, curated by Luca Beatrice and Marco Bazzini, adopts a suggestive perspective to show how the history of contemporary art and of rock music have followed parallel paths to contribute to the construction of the cultural universe of the last forty years. Music and the visual arts have crossed and overlapped, over time, engendering a unified and consistent landscape; what draws them together is the performative dimension, articulated according to the specific occasion within an exhibition or a concert. LIVE!offers a parallel and original reading of historic events by exhibiting paintings, sculptures, installations, video clips, artworks, LPs, graphic works, photographs, magazines and films. Artists include Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, William English, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cindy Sherman, David LaChapelle and more. The exhibition will be accompanied by Live!, a book published by Rizzoli with contributions by Luca Beatrice and Marco Bazzini. LIVE! Art Meets Rock view at the Museo Pecci di Prato until September 16.

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JIM JARMUSCH FOR AUTRE DESIRE Autre is thrilled to present its SS25 DESIRE Issue (preorder in bio), a lush, incandescent descent into the undercurrents of longing, transformation, and creative rebellion. Featuring a special digital cover with filmmaker @jim.jarmusch in conversation with novelist @constancdebre , photographed by @patmartin__ Jim Jarmusch is a seminal figure in contemporary cinema, a filmmaker whose body of work has both defined and subverted the contours of American independent film. While he is most known for his cinematic output, Jarmusch is also a poet, musician, and an artist. Over several decades he has amassed a body of over 500 collages ripped by hand from the pages of newspapers, a selection of which are on view for the first time in Los Angeles at James Fuentes gallery. Jarmusch joins his friend Constance Debré—a former criminal lawyer, now an incendiary novelist known for her stark explorations of identity, sexuality, and rupture—to discuss desire as a counter proposition and creative motor. Preorder the issue now by clicking the 🔗 in bio. All preorders come with a FULL digital preview delivered to your inbox immediately after checkout while you wait for the print edition to arrive. #jimjarmusch #cinema #collage

MABEL OLEA IN @loewe FOR AUTRE DESIRE Autre is thrilled to present its SS25 DESIRE Issue (preorder in bio), a lush, incandescent descent into the undercurrents of longing, transformation, and creative rebellion. Featuring a special digital cover with Spanish dancer @mabelolea_ photographed by @geraymena and styled by @camilleangepailler in ALL @geraymena Preorder the issue now by clicking the 🔗 in bio. All preorders come with a FULL digital preview delivered to your inbox immediately after checkout while you wait for the print edition to arrive. Photography Geray Mena Styling: @camilleangepailler Art Direction/Concept: Lorenzo Louis Pradelli Talent: Mabel Olea Hair & Makeup: Laura Del Muro Light Assistant: Diego Perez Stylist Assistant: Ainhoa Aguera #dance #loewe #fashion

HELMUT LANG FOR AUTRE DESIRE Autre is thrilled to present its SS25 DESIRE Issue (preorder in bio), a lush, incandescent descent into the undercurrents of longing, transformation, and creative rebellion. Featuring a special digital cover with Helmut Lang interviewed by curator @nevillewakefield on the occasion of his exhibition on view now at @makcenter in Los Angeles. Helmut Lang’s eponymous label forged a minimalist, brutalist aesthetic that confronted sexuality with stark, unflinching radicalism. His recent sculptures—cast from once-pliant materials like rubber, foam, and wax—press into form the weight of psychic residue. They do not depict history; they embody it. Desire emerges as a restless choreography with the past, haunted by the spectral presence of The Schindler House and its architect, fellow Austrian émigré Rudolph Schindler. Preorder the issue now by clicking the 🔗 in bio. All preorders come with a FULL digital preview delivered to your inbox immediately after checkout while you wait for the print edition to arrive. #helmutlang #sculpture

TALI LENNOX ⚔️ PASSION PLAY Autre is thrilled to present its SS25 DESIRE Issue (preorder in bio), a lush, incandescent descent into the undercurrents of longing, transformation, and creative rebellion. Featuring a special digital cover with painter @talilennox , interviewed by @betonyvernon , and photographed by @jesperdlund in Paris. Tali Lennox’s works are rife with a rare erotic power that is both gothic and cadaverous. Desire becomes a tenuous dance between the oneiric and the folkloric; a passion play of spiritual autopsy and resurrection. Alongside jewelry designer and sexologist Betony Vernon, Lennox dismantles the psychic fractures embedded in her paintings. Preorder the issue now by clicking the 🔗 in bio. All preorders come with a FULL digital preview delivered to your inbox immediately after checkout while you wait for the print edition to arrive. Photographed Jesper Lund Stylist: Nayeli De Alba @nayelidealba_ Hair: Jesper Halin @jeshallin Makeup: Ruben Masoliver @rubenmas Photography Assistant: Cam Lindfors @camlindfors Styling Assistant: Nadia Gil Photographed at L’Hotel, 13 Rue Des Beaux-Arts, Paris #talilennox #ruptures #paris

ISABELLE ALBUQUERQUE’S ZONE OF DESIRE Autre is thrilled to present its SS25 DESIRE Issue (preorder in bio), a lush, incandescent descent into the undercurrents of longing, transformation, and creative rebellion. Featuring a special digital cover with Isabelle Albuquerque, photographed by @jack.bool at the @roberttherrienestate with works in dialogue with the late artist. Plus an intimate interview with her partner @jon__ray . In a fascinating closing essay by Patrick R. Crowley (@marbleindex ), he explores Isabelle Albuquerque’s sculptural work as a sensual, feminist response to historical ideas about desire, identity, and form. Drawing from ancient theories of vision and gendered imagination, Albuquerque’s sculptures—especially her Orgy for Ten People in One Body series—disrupt traditional figurative norms through materials like wax, rubber, and hair. Her recent collaboration with Robert Therrien deepens this inquiry into desire as a generative, shape-shifting force, using scale, reflection, and erotic selfhood to challenge fixed identities and celebrate metamorphosis. Preorder the issue now by clicking the 🔗 in bio. All preorders come with a FULL digital preview delivered to your inbox immediately after checkout while you wait for the print edition to arrive. Photography @jack.bool Interview by @jon__ray Essay by @marbleindex Makeup @hollysilius Special thanks to @nicodimgallery and @jeffreydeitchgallery Artwork on slide three: Isabelle Albuquerque Fleur Sauvage, 2024 Stainless steel, walnut 40 x 21 x 30 in 101.6 x 53.3 x 76.2 cm Unique Courtesy of the Artist and Nicodim. Photographer: Lee Tyler Thompson #isabellealbuquerque #sculpture

PAUL MCCARTHY, EATON FIRE, 2025 Autre is thrilled to present its SS25 DESIRE Issue (preorder in bio), a lush, incandescent descent into the undercurrents of longing, transformation, and creative rebellion. Paul McCarthy’s Santa with Butt Plug Bronze 11.4 inches pulled from the rubble of the 2025 Eaton Fire. From a powerful photographic document of relics salvaged from the ashes of some of the most devastating wildfires in California’s history. From an essay by Autre’s editor Oliver Kupper: “The fires didn’t just destroy. It exposed. Our cities built on buried sunlight. Our futures devoured by our appetites. This isn’t just climate collapse—it’s a mirror held to our hunger. Desire isn’t the spark. It’s the blaze. Queer, unruly, transformative. We don’t need less fire—we need better fire. Slower. Wilder. Honest. The Pyrocene is here. The question isn’t how to stop it. It’s how to carry it forward.” These charred remnants, pulled from the wreckage of homes, studios, and lifetimes, are more than evidence of loss—they are monuments to resilience. Among those affected: Cleon Peterson, Jon Pylypchuk, and McCarthy himself, whose family compound in Altadena was reduced to rubble. And @litaalbuquerque from the Woolsey Fire. What survives, endures. What burns, speaks. Preorder the issue now by clicking the 🔗 in bio. All preorders come with a FULL digital preview delivered to your inbox immediately after checkout while you wait for the print edition to arrive. Photography @joshuawhitephotography Essay by Oliver Kupper Special thanks to the McCarthy family: Paul, Damon, Mara, Karen @cleonpeterson @rudybust @litaalbuquerque #PaulMcCarthy #EatonFire #PalisadesFire #RelicsFromTheFire #AutreDesireIssue #ArtInThePyrocene #pyrocene #wildfire

THIS IS PATTI SMITH & SOUNDWALK COLLECTIVE Autre is thrilled to present its SS25 DESIRE Issue (preorder in bio), a lush, incandescent descent into the undercurrents of longing, transformation, and creative rebellion. The eternally legendary @thisispattismith and Stephan Crasneanscki of @soundwalkcollective exchange meditations on devotion, memory, and sonic mythologies, captured by @boe_marion in New York City Since her 1975 debut Horses, Patti Smith has channeled a lineage of seekers and visionaries through a fusion of music, poetry, and performance. For the past decade, she has collaborated with Soundwalk Collective, an experimental sound group she met by chance on a plane. Their work, recently showcased in CORRESPONDENCES at Kurimanzutto New York, turns recordings from charged sites—like Chornobyl and Pasolini’s death place—into immersive soundscapes layered with Smith’s voice and reflections. Preorder the issue now by clicking the 🔗 in bio. All preorders come with a FULL digital preview delivered to your inbox immediately after checkout while you wait for the print edition to arrive. #pattismith #soundwalkcollective

CAMI ÁRBOLES BY TORBJØRN RØDLAND Autre is thrilled to present its SS25 DESIRE Issue (preorder in bio), a lush, incandescent descent into the undercurrents of longing, transformation, and creative rebellion. Cami Árboles photographed by @rodland.jpg and interviewed by @celinecelines Movement artist and educator Cami Árboles discovered pole dancing while studying at Yale. After graduating in 2020, she founded the Mind Body Spirit Collective (MBSC) to help women and nonbinary people reclaim their bodies through movement. Together with Lebanese-Canadian artist, designer, writer, and advocate, Céline Semaan, they discuss the liberatory power of the body and desire. Preorder the issue now by clicking the 🔗 in bio. All preorders come with a FULL digital preview delivered to your inbox immediately after checkout while you wait for the print edition to arrive. Photography @torbjornrodland Makeup Artist: @karo_kangas Hair: Amber Duerte @amber_duarte Special thanks Jelena @guardian_mgmt #camiarboles #movementart #poledancing

VAGINAL DAVIS, AN 𝕆ℝ𝔸𝕃 HERSTORY Autre is thrilled to present its SS25 DESIRE Issue (preorder in bio), a lush, incandescent descent into the undercurrents of longing, transformation, and creative rebellion. Saint of subversion, high priestess of punk, mother of mythic mischief—Vaginal Davis interview by @brucelabruce and photographs by Matt Lambert in three theatrical acts. Emerging from the queer punk subculture of Los Angeles, Davis has cultivated a multidisciplinary practice—spanning performance, film, writing, and visual art—that resists institutional co-optation while exposing the violences embedded in normative structures. On the 20th anniversary of her migration from Los Angeles to Berlin, Gropius Bau unveils Vaginal Davis: Fabelhaftes Produkt—the artist’s first solo museum retrospective in Germany. In an expansive and provocative conversation, Davis guides avant-queer filmmaker Bruce LaBruce through an unfiltered oral herstory of the queer underground, charting the subversive currents that have shaped both their work and the wider cultural landscape. Preorder the issue now by clicking the 🔗 in bio. All preorders come with a FULL digital preview delivered to your inbox immediately after checkout while you wait for the print edition to arrive. Photographer: @dielamb Costume / Styling: @feuriger_engel13 Make-up: @fritzenwanker Hair: @tina__pachta Featuring: @klemenccc & @joao.dorey Produced by: @vers.global @yawnnis 1st Asst: @anasolfebres Special Thanks: @gropiusbau @theaterkunst #VaginalDavis #Legendary #QueerIcon #RadicalBeauty #feet

MIA KHALIFA FOR AUTRE DESIRE Autre is thrilled to present its SS25 DESIRE Issue (preorder in bio), a lush, incandescent descent into the undercurrents of longing, transformation, and creative rebellion. @miakhalifa avatar, muse, model, activist, influencer, crush, object of desire, and subject of relentless fascination. Photographed by @sicknethi and styled by @missclairesullivan interview by @saraburnstudio As an icon of desire, Mia has become a holographic projection of society’s deepest anxieties surrounding race, power, beauty, and female autonomy over her own body. As a figure of fascination, she has channeled her immense social influence to boldly confront human rights abuses, political repression, cultural stereotyping, and the exploitation inherent in the adult entertainment industry. Preorder the issue now by clicking the 🔗 in bio. All preorders come with a FULL digital preview delivered to your inbox immediately after checkout while you wait for the print edition to arrive. Photography Nick Sethi Producer: Carolina Vogt @Second Name Producer: Jenny Slattery @Second Name Assistant: @paigelabuda Stylist: Claire Sullivan Miss Claire Sullivan Studio Manager: Olivia Ballard Miss Claire Sullivan Head Of Atelier: Ethan Lloyd Miss Claire Sullivan Assistant: Finn Belanger Hair Stylist: E Williams @Frank Reps Makeup Artist: Marcelo Gutierrez @Huxley #miakhalifa #autredesire #desire

BJÖRK’S ECOLOGY OF DESIRE… Autre is thrilled to present its SS25 DESIRE Issue (preorder in bio), a lush, incandescent descent into the undercurrents of longing, transformation, and creative rebellion. On the cover, Björk emerges as an oracle of the post-human, in dialogue with @hansulrichobrist, photographed by @vidarlogi. With the imminent arrival of her magnum opus, Björk: Cornucopia, in theaters on May 7th, she speaks of desire as ecology, ritual, and resistance. As the film mines the artist’s past songbook while simultaneously looking forward to the future, we present a 60-page in-depth, meticulously researched dossier of Björk’s life and career through the lens of desire and ecology—from her sonic innovations to her sartorial radicalism. Rare, unearthed photographs by Paulo Sutch and Spike Jonze. A retrospective of images by Juergen Teller. An essay by Angelo Flaccavento on her pagan way of dressing. And collaborations with Takashi Homma, Nobuyoshi Araki, Chris Cunningham and more. Preorder the issue now by clicking the 🔗 in bio. All preorders come with a FULL digital preview delivered to your inbox immediately after checkout while you wait for the print edition to arrive. Interview Hans Ulrich Obrist Photography Vidar Logi Styling @eddagud Makeup @andrewgallimakeup Hair @mr.hiroshi.matsushita Special thanks @joshuawhitephotography #AutreDesireIssue #BjörkCornucopia #ecology #Björk

Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️&zwj;⚧️ Our platform has and will always and forever be inclusive 🏳️&zwj;⚧️ AUTRE means OTHER in French. A simple, ubiquitous word that encompasses the millions of people who represent the ‘other.’ Currently, t

Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️ Our platform has and will always and forever be inclusive 🏳️‍⚧️ AUTRE means OTHER in French. A simple, ubiquitous word that encompasses the millions of people who represent the ‘other.’ Currently, the ‘other’ is under attack. Every voice can be a form of resistance. Visibility is a form of resistance. #transdayofvisibility

Just announced Barry Jenkins teams up with @a24 for “Be My Baby” on the life of Ronnie Spector to star @zendaya . In 2017, @mrpharmacist72 interviewed Ronnie for the pages of AUTRE. They talked about EVERYTHING, including their iconic hairdos: “We were healthy and had all this thick hair, we didn’t know what to do with it. I love Bridget Bardot, so I would try to put it up and tease it. Some things were you wanted to look like certain people, at least I did. All three of the Ronettes, whatever I would do they would do. It’s like the Cleopatra eyes. Everybody went nuts when we started wearing the eyeliner. We slowly got into our own groove.” #zendaya #ronniespector #bemybaby #a24

We are very saddened and shocked to learn of the passing of @laeyeworks founder and designer Gai Gherardi. She was a transformative creative force among the sprawling fabric of Los Angeles, but her influence spanned the world. She was an unwavering champion of LA artists and queer rights. Her office was an incubator—not only of eyewear, but also turtle eggs, proving her love for the more than human world. Her bright simile and enthusiasm for life made everyone feel loved and welcome. Her bold and playful designs made her eyewear instantly recognizable without the need for a forward facing logo. Her frames were worn by the impaired who wanted to be seen with crystal clear vision. She and l.a.Eyeworks have been major supporters since issue one. We wouldn’t exist without Gai’s support and influence. Their legendary ad campaigns, many of which were featured in interview magazine and later Autre, featured burgeoning icons like Peewee Herman, Sharon Stone, Andy Warhol, and more. For the 40th anniversary of LAEyeworks we devoted 40 pages to exploring the history of this seminal brand. In a conversation with @greggormanphoto , who photographed most of their most iconic ad campaigns, Gherardi told us, “We were seeing this huge array of faces. And, you know, it was goodbye ‘70s! And off came the hair, and out came the face. All kinds of things were happening.” She also told us that the campaign, which later focused on LA artists with an inventive sense of worldbuilding, wasn’t about celebrity, but “interrogating celebrity.” Everything was an intellectual exercise in rebellion and resistance. She will be deeply missed. #laeyeworks #gaigherardi

DOOM (and hope) on PARK AVENUE. @anne_imhof ‘s largest performance to date on view at @parkavearmory the until March 12th. “For me, there are no boundaries between life and work. The biggest dream is to be together in a space and have the most exciting time you can—that’s the universe. This is why I am doing the live work.” @anne_imhof in conversation with @nadya for AUTRE FW24 Citizen Issue #anneimhof #doom