Kenneth Anger, James Franco and Brian Butler at their performance of Aleister Crowley’s Bartzabel Working at the opening of The Martian Chronicles exhibit, honoring the work of sci-fi author Ray Bradbury, on view until January 5, 2013 at L&M Arts, 660 Venice Boulevard, Venice, CA
photograph by Terry Richardson
Purple publisher Olivier Zahm and photographer Brad Elterman hanging out in New York. photograph by Brad Elterman
Adarsha Benjamin and the KURT Crew on the way to Miami to premiere her film Kurt at the Gusman Theater as part of Art Basel on December 6. photograph by Adarsha Benjamin
Guy Blakeslee, Ryan Heffingting, Dugan O'Neal, and Bethany McCarty. photograph by Adarsha Benjamin
photograph by Terry Richardson
Presented by the Friends of Gusman-Red Curtain Series, Olympia Theater, Autre/Art Now & Onward Forward. Performances by Ryan Huffington with music by Guy Blakeslee. A live performance by Thurston Moore. Thursday, December 6, 2012. Doors open at 7 P.M. Event begins promptly at 8 P.M. At Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center, 174 East Flaglet Street, Downtown Miami. Tickets $25. Purchase tickets HERE. For more info visit www.onfwd.com
Artist Richard Prince gives the girls of the Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society a tour of his rare books and ephemera shop Fulton Ryder on the Upper East Side and shows them pieces from his personal collection of never-before-seen artwork.
Canadian photographer Arnaud Maggs, famous of his stark black and white portraits of artists like Joseph Beuys Northrop Frye, and Leonard Cohen died Saturday, November 17, 2012, at the age of 86 years.
photograph by Brad Elterman
André Saraiva and Mr. Brain Wash at the Mmmmh Club at the Standard Hotel, West Hollywood. photograph by Brad Elterman
Legendary Australian industrial designer Marc Newson signs copies of his new book Marc Newson: Works, a catalogue of all his works to date, at the Taschen Store in New York. Marc Newson: Works is available now on Taschen. Photography by Annabel Graham for Pas Un Autre.
Adarsha in Aberdeen, Washington putting the finishing touches on her film Kurt to premier next month at Art Basel Miami. photograph by Adarsha Benjamin
Kurt Cobain's childhood home in Aberdeen, Washington. photograph by Adarsha Benjamin
Underneath a bridge in Aberdeen, Washington where Adarsha Benjamin is shooting her film Kurt to premier next month at Art Basel. photograph by Adarsha Benjamin
Artist and photographer Asger Carlsen in New York. photograph by Austin McManus
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While in town for the unveiling of a new permanent sculpture in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Brooklyn-based artistic collective FAILE worked with local Mongolian artists on a mural. They stenciled an image of a young girl clutching a skateboard – a nod to the quickly modernizing nature of Mongolia contrasted by its vast unpaved landscape – on the wall of an archway located in the central university district of Ulan Bator. Each Mongolian artist worked on customizing the girl’s dress in their own style. The emerging Mongolian artists are recent finalists of the Tiger Translate Festival and were selected by a prestigious panel of judges that included the National Arts Council.
To introduce the launch of the new bike polo, Louis Vuitton presents an new action packed short film starring Jonathan Leder and starring Britany Nola (Playboy's Miss November 2012) as a sexy referee during a bike polo match. One of Louis Vuitton’s ongoing projects is the “sport objects” series, represented here with an elegant fixed gear, polo bike made up of elements of steel, aluminium, leather, canvas, and high-density plastic (the front wheel is closed with damier graphite canvas to prevent the ball from passing through or to get a mallet mingled in the wheel). These state of the art - not for sale - unique pieces are also highly functional equipment, designed by Louis Vuitton and produced in collaboration with the most renowned craftsmen in their respective field. Faithful to its innovator origins, this luxury Bike Polo perfectly embodies the exclusive sport objects produced by the House. With the film, director Jonathan Leder introduces his highly aesthetic vision of bike polo, an elegant back-lit choreography where all the players glide into a film noir scenery; a hazy staging featuring the “Louis Vuitton Boys”, not without a touch of irony.
From left to right – artist Gregory Siff, James Georgopoulos, and Adarsha Benjamin at the opening of Gregory Siff's exhibition of new works entitled Matter of Time, which will be on view until November 10 at Gallery Brown in Los Angeles. photography by Nobody
