Black Lives Matter: See Our Photographic Essay of the Freddie Gray Protests in New York City →

After news emerged that Freddie Gray, Jr. had broken his spine and died while in the custody of police officers โ€“ a literal straw that broke the camel's back after countless public deaths of unarmed black men and women at the hands of authorities โ€“ riots and protests erupted in Baltimore; it soon spread to New York City. Mike Krim of subversive, cult publishing imprint Paperwork NYC and model Alex Papa grabbed their cameras and found themselves in the center of the action. "Alex Papa and I decided to grab some film and join in. Not knowing what to expect, we jumped in the crowd and started taking photos. That lasted roughly twenty minutes until we found ourselves chanting "No Justice No Peace Fuck The Police" and fully engaged in the protest, which took over city blocks and highways. As voices echoed loudly, we ran to fill in gaps, walking interlinked to shut down intersections, and marched forward. At times losing people to small pockets of raw emotion that took place. I'm not sure what the exact term of "peaceful assembly" is but I feel it was accomplished last night. Was anything achieved besides screwing up all the traffic in NYC? I'm not sure. I will tell you one thing, though, it felt fucking awesome approaching Times Square with that many people and taking over what some call the center of the universe." Click here to see the full photographic essay. 

Harper Levine of Harper's Books At His Anti-Fair Pop-Up At the Carlyle Hotel In New York

Harper Levine of Harper's Books at his Anti-Fair Pop-Up, which takes up a double room suite at the Carlyle Hotel. Get your hands on beautiful rare art books, art by the likes of Eric Brown and Brad Phillips, and other ephemera. On view until Friday, May 15 at the Carlyle Hotel in New York. photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Part Two: VIP Opening of Paris Photo Los Angeles 2015

Paris Photo Los Angeles returns this year to Paramount Pictures Studios' famous sound stages and New York City backlots. Paris Photo presents a true exploration of classic and contemporary photography and moving images - and everything in between. The fair opens today and runs until Sunday, May 3rd. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Part One: VIP Opening of Paris Photo Los Angeles 2015

Paris Photo Los Angeles returns this year to Paramount Pictures Studios' famous sound stages and New York City backlots. Paris Photo presents a true exploration of classic and contemporary photography and moving images - and everything in between. The fair opens today and runs until Sunday, May 3rd. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

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 80โ€™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 Skateistanโ€™s first skate school on the African continent, in central Johannesburg. The innovative facility will use โ€œthe hookโ€ of skateboarding to connect vulnerable youth to educational and leadership opportunities. The vision is for Skateistan, South Africaโ€™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, Gonzalesโ€™ 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 ยญโ€“ directed by Donald Firth โ€“ 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.