Autre Magazine LEVITY ISSUE Celebration At The Historic Arzner-Morgan Residence in Los Angeles

On Saturday June 8th, Autre Magazine celebrated its Spring/Summer 2024 Levity Issue at the historic Arzner-Morgan Residence in Los Angeles, now the West Coast outpost of Half Gallery, helmed by author and art dealer Bill Powers. With a crystal clear view of Los Angeles, the Greek-Revival home built for one of Hollywood’s first openly queer filmmakers in 1930, welcomed an intimate, personally invited guest list. Cocktails were provided by Legende Rakija in partnership with Casamara Club. photographs by Oliver Kupper

Autre Magazine and Jeffrey Deitch Host A Dinner To Celebrate Frieze Week in Los Angeles at Ardor at The West Hollywood Edition

Last night we kicked off the LA art week with Jeffrey Deitch Gallery and friends at Ardor with a vegetable forward menu by world-renowned chef John Fraser before heading downstairs to the West Hollywood Edition’s signature club, Sunset. Guests included Sharon Stone, Kembra Pfahler, Mykki Blanco, Beck Hansen, Bibbe Hansen, Neville Wakefield, Jordan Wolfson, Ariana Papademetropoulos, Tony Kaye and artists from the groundbreaking group show At the Edge of the Sun, on view now at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery.

Celebration of Autre #17 FW23 The "Instinct" Issue at Desert 5 Spot with a Collaborator's Dinner at Ka'teen

photographs by Oliver Kupper

"The Emerald Tablet" A Curatorial Project by Ariana Papademetropoulos Opening At Jeffrey Deitch

The Emerald Tablet is modeled on Dorothy’s quest to The Emerald City in Frank Baum’s β€œThe Wizard of Oz” and invokes its iconography to ignite the dialogue between esotericism and popular culture. As a fervent Theosophist, a religious movement that flourished in Los Angeles at the turn of the century, Baum’s Emerald City is a reference to β€œThe Emerald Tablet of Hermes,” an ancient text that formed the foundations of alchemy and all subsequent western occult traditions. On view until October 23 at Jeffrey Deitch. photographs by Oliver Kupper

Ariana Papademetropoulos "The Emerald Tablet" After Party At Jeffrey Deitch's Residence

photographs by Oliver Kupper

Nicole Della Costa Celebrates The Release Of As Serious As A Hiccup @ Des Pair Books In Los Angeles

As Serious as a Hiccup is the book version of artist and writer Nicole Della Costa’s journal; a journal in which she herself, as well as other friends and writers, jot and mark the musings of the day.

Nicole Della Costa, a Brazilian native currently living and working in New York City occupies a social milieu that intersects art, film, writing and music. An intimacy excavator, collaboration is at the heart of Della Costa’s practice, inviting fellow writers, friends and strangers to transcribe their poetry into her journal. Like the scanned fragments of writing on napkins and the pictorial ephemera included in the text, the collaborators’ own writing impacts Nicole’s experience, as her writing impacts theirs.

Through Della Costa’s eyes and uncensored way of looking, we experience the discovery inherent in moving to a new city, orienting yourself, and falling in love with the quotidian. Despite her now several years in New York and prevalence within its cultural scene, Della Costa’s β€˜enthusiasmo’ remains and functions as an unpretentious guide throughout.

 
 

Doug Aitken's Song 1

One of the most important artist's working today is without a doubt Doug Aitken. From photography, sculpture, and architectural interventions, to films, sound, single and multi-channel video works, and installations Aitken's work is a truly unique and distinctive voice of this century. On view now at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C., Aitken's multimedia exhibition, entitled Song 1, is a 360 degree projection of films onto the exterior museum set to the soundtrack of the 193os jazz standard reinterpreted by the likes of LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy, Beck, Devendra Banhart, No Age and more. Song 1 "will illuminate the entire facade of the Hirshhorn’s iconic building, transforming it into 'liquid architecture' and an urban soundscape. Using eleven high-definition video projectors, Aitken will seamlessly blend imagery to envelop the Museum's exterior, creating a work that redefines cinematic space." Doug Aitken: SONG 1 will be on view until May 13, 2012.