Rumer Willis Gives An Intimate Cabaret Performance @ Out Of Order In Silverlake
photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Click here to read our interview with Ariana Papademetropoulos. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Bruce Wagner's novel "I Met Someone" is available here. photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Jake Hoffman and cinematographer David J. Myrick outside of the Sundance Sunset Cinema after the Los Angeles premier of Asthma, Hoffman's first film. Read our review and interview with the film's star Benedict Samuel here. photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Bash to celebrate the release of Brad Elterman's new photo book No Dogs On Beach at Milk Studios in Los Angeles. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Designer and artist Sean Knibb, of Knibb Design, unveiling his unique series of Carrara marble tables with intricately and meticulously carved t-shirts and jean shorts, at the Please Do Not Enter concept shop in downtown LA. photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Rihanna celebrated the unveiling of her album art, by Israeli-born New York based artist Roy Nachum, at a private gathering held at MAMA gallery in Los Angeles. The album name, Anti, was also revealed, but there is no set date for the record release. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Hosted by Rose McGowan, the #YESALLWOMEN campaign (spearheaded by Jessie Askinazi) held a silent auction, exhibition, and evening of performances fusing art and activism, to benefit the East Los Angeles Women's Center, whose programs supported 8,300 Los Angeles women, girls, and families affected by violence last year. Featuring renowned and emerging women in contemporary art reflecting on gender equality including: Barbara Kruger, Kim Gordon, Xaviera Simmons, Rain and Summer Phoenix, Kathleen Hanna, Drue Kataoka, Amanda Demme and more. You can donate to the #YESALLWOMEN campaign here. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
In 1972, David Bowie released his groundbreaking album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. With it landed Bowie’s Stardust alter-ego: A glitter-clad, mascara-eyed, sexually-ambiguous persona who kicked down the boundaries between male and female, straight and gay, fact and fiction into one shifting and sparkling phenomenon of ’70s self-expression. Together, Ziggy the album and Ziggy the stage spectacular propelled the softly spoken Londoner into one of the world’s biggest stars. A key passenger on this glam trip into the stratosphere was fellow Londoner and photographer Mick Rock. Rock bonded with Bowie artistically and personally, immersed himself in the singer’s inner circle, and, between 1972–1973, worked as Bowie’s official photographer. Last night, Taschen Gallery in Beverly Hills celebrated the launch of the book and an exhibition of selected photographs from the tome for an exhibition entitled David Bowie: Shooting For Stardust, which will be on view until October 11. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
How Many Virgins? presented their Second Summer sacrifice, an intimate evening of visual, aural, and sensual stimulation, at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles. Featuring A Post-Mentalpausal Mid-Career Survey by Amy Von Harrington & Mel Shimkovitz: short films spanning ten years of new age-old epiphanies and co-defendant disfunction. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Los Angeles based Night Gallery collaborated with the Thomas Moller and Matthew Bernstein, directors of the art program at The Battery Social Club in San Francisco to present a group show called "Sunset Strrip" featuring artists like Derek Boshier, Mira Dancy, Sojourner Truth Parsons and more. "In the 60s the Sunset Strip was dirrty. Dirrty in the trash that covered the avenues and dirrty in the deals that went down between hustlers on the street and those in cars. Dirrty hands shook behind asbestos walls while polyester fabrics brimmed with dirrty sweat and car exhaust. Today Sunset Strip is very different, operating more like a television commercial through which you drive. Massive billboards consume your visual attention leaving little else to be absorbed.The new strrip has moved southeast. It runs through downtown Los Angeles, beginning at the Fashion District and ending at Dames-N-Games. This is Night Gallery’s neighborhood." Sunset Strrip will be on view until October 11, 2015 at the Battery Social Club, 717 Battery St, San Francisco, CA. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Cyrus Gengras and folksinger Jessica Pratt at an intimate Vetiver show at Dilettante in Los Angeles. Read our interview with Pratt here. photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Italian transplants Pierpaolo Barzan and Valeria Sorci occupy the storied Baxter-Hodiak house, which was built by the oft-misunderstood architect John Lautner for the actress Anne Baxter - the granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright. The house exists in the romantic hills behind Sunset Boulevard on a quiet cul de sac between paradise and art utopia. Patrons of the art world as a whole and founders of the Depart Foundation, a non-profit artists institution that supports emerging artists, Barzan and Sorci opened their home for one night only, for a private tour of their personal collection. Juxtaposed against the mixed modern Tudor-style home with its bricks and sinuous indoor-outdoor couch, the collection is near perfectly curated and provides an intimate arena to enjoy art by everyone from Douglas Gordon to Pryce Lee with his bullet riddled mirror tucked coyly in a guest bathroom. text and photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
“Synthetic Suburbia is a culmination of years of looking at the place where I live and the peculiarity of it. I have travelled all over the world and there is no place as strange as Huntington Beach.” Primarily known as a photographer documenting the people and culture surrounding the iconic pier in Huntington Beach, California, Ed Templeton’s Synthetic Suburbia is a survey of new paintings and drawings directly inspired from this emersion into his coastal suburban environment. Synthetic Suburbia extends Templeton’s diaristic observances into a compelling visual analysis of the concrete experiences, perceptions, and idiosyncrasies of this hyper-local existence. Synthetic Suburbia will be on view until May 30, 2015 at Roberts and Tilton, 5801 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, California. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Autre editor and founder Oliver Maxwell Kupper discusses art, independent publishing, Autre, and more in an interview in Forbes. Click here to read.
photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Adarsha Benjamin on Market Street in San Francisco. photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper