Bruce LaBruce Celebrates MoMA Retrospective @ Nowhere Bar

Transgressive queercore director  Bruce LaBruce is flying high right now; his first MoMA exhibition opened up last night and Bruce went out to party. The exhibition itself is a monumental achievement; LaBruce may be one of the more extreme artists to ever have work shown at MoMA. Depicting scenes of sexual fetish and paraphillia, BDSM, gang rape, racially-motivated violence, amputee fetishism and more, LaBruce has managed to turn controversy into his own brand of queer celebrating and sex positive art. MoMA itself has compared LaBruce favorably to Robert Altman and Federico Fellini as a true auteur when discussing the choice for the exhibition. So where did LaBruce go out to celebrate his achievement? Nowhere Bar, of course. The infamous gay bar proved to be a perfect setting for LaBruce to party and dance with friends and muses like performance artist Kembra Phahler and writer and nightlife personality Ladyfag , as well as many more adoring friends and fans.  One half expects extreme things to be surrounding Bruce at all times, but tonight was actually a mellow night where Bruce drank, hugged friends, danced and basked in the glory. Text and photographs by Adam Lehrer

A Coachella Diary on Film by Ethan DeLorenzo

Ethan DeLorenzo gets strange and weird with Father John Misty, Travis Scott, Chris Brown and more during Coachella 2015. photographs by Ethan DeLorenzo

Read Our Interview with Cozette McCreery of Sibling →

Read BJ Panda Bear's interview with Cozette MCCreery, one third of the design collective and London-based fashion brand Sibling. MCCreery, who was once a muse to the late artist Lucian Freud, talks designer clothes, raves, and 80’s era Madonna. Read the interview here. And keep up to date with everything arts and culture by following Autre on instagram: @AUTREMAGAZINE

Paul McCarthy Designs Limited Edition Skatedecks

Paul McCarthy borrows from his series PROPO to design a series of skatedecks. Through this collection, The Skateroom and Paul McCarthy aim to entirely finance the building of Skateistan’s first skate school on the African continent, in central Johannesburg. The innovative facility will use “the hook” of skateboarding to connect vulnerable youth to educational and leadership opportunities. The vision is for Skateistan, South Africa’s skate school to serve as a regional training hub for skateboard-based, youth-development projects. Each deck is hand-numbered, signed and limited to 250 units. Click here to get pick up your own deck and support this amazing project. photograph by Damon McCarthy

Mark Gonzales Non Stop Poetry

Mark Gonzales is widely considered to be the greatest and most influential skateboarder of all time. On top of skateboarding, Gonzales is also an artist and a poet who has collaborated with the likes of Harmony Korine, Maurizio Cattelan and other creative misfits to produce over 145 zines since the early 90s. Many of these zines were shared among friends, fellow skaters and artists. For the first time ever, Gonzales’ zines have been collected and compiled in a new anthology entitled Non Stop Poetry: The Zines of Mark Gonzales (Printed Matter Inc). In this gorgeously and lyrically shot short film ­– directed by Donald Firth – the Gonz reads some of his poetry over footage from his book signing for Non Stop Poetry at Pizzanista! in Los Angeles. The book, which is already a collectors item, can be purchased here.

Harper's Books Poolside Bungalow Exhibition @ Edition Hotel

Fascinating display of rare books and other ephemera at Harper Books' exhibition at Miami Beach Edition Hotel. Photography by Daisuke Yokota and art by Jesse Littlefield, Stewart Suttcliffe, Robert Whitman and more. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Sex In The 70s: Go See Fredrica Duke's New Play In Los Angeles

This is a must see and rare experience. Playwright Fredrica Duke shares 24 outrageous, irreverent and laugh-out-loud stories that propel the audience back in time to the sexual revolution. From her public lawn schtup, to being totally desensitized by the overuse of her Hitachi vibrator. This one-woman show recalls an era when anything and everything was possible. In My Own X-Rated Words will run from November 6 to December 18, 2014 at the Lounge Theater in Los Angeles, 6201 Santa Monica Blvd. You can buy tickets here. 

[ZINE ALERT] Animæ Magazine

The first issue of Animæ Magazine, entitled It's Not Your Fault, landed on our doorstep and it's a great, 32 page tabloid style zine from Swedish photographer Lena Modigh in collaboration with Mono.This first issue of Animæ is a three-way conversation about sex, obsession and sanity between three female artists (Lena Modigh, Lucie Russell, and Kristina Sigunsdotter). "Part reminiscence / part journal / part observation; it is an exploration of female youth, sexuality, first love, and loss that takes the form of a zine for girls about boys... and girls." Buy it here.