Mick Rock: Remembering Bowie and Alejandro Iñárritu: The Revenant Double Exhibition @ Taschen Gallery in Los Angeles

Mick Rock: Remembering Bowie features photographs of the late and legendary David Bowie by his once official photograph Mick Rock. In the other room of Taschen gallery in Los Angeles, behind-the-scenes of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant. A selection of photographs from Kimberley French are on display alongside props and relics from the film, charting the making of this critically-acclaimed epic through arresting visuals of the film’s extreme conditions and serene settings. The exhibit will be an exclusive first look at material for an upcoming Tascene Collector’s Edition book, The Revenant, signed and limited, with a portfolio of prints. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to a charity supporting Native Americans. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper 

Celebration for The Opening of Mick Rock's "David Bowie: Shooting For Stardust" At Taschen Gallery in Los Angeles

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

The Flamboyant Life & Forbidden Art of George Quaintance @ The Taschen Gallery in Los Angeles

George Quaintance lived and worked during an era when homosexuality was repressed, when his joyful paintings and physique photos could not depict a penis. In an era before Stonewall, the sexual revolution, gay rights and the AIDS crisis, Quaintance and his high-camp erotic art existed in a demi-monde of borderline legality. Currently, Taschen Gallery is presenting The Flamboyant Life & Forbidden Art of George Quaintance, the first public show of works by this culturally significant artist. Seventy years since the creation of his first physique painting, discover Quaintance's masculine fantasy world, populated by Greek gods, Latin lovers, lusty cowboys and chiseled ranch hands. Accompanying pieces from photographer and gay magazine pioneer Bob Mizer, as well as from the legendary Tom of Finland, show Quaintance’s leading influence on the gay publishing and art scene. The exhibition will be on view until August 31, 2015 at Taschen Gallery, 8070 Beverly Blvd Los Angeles, CA