Watch The Premiere Of Katie Schecter's "How Many Flowers" Directed By Buckley

June 18, 2021

Katie Schecter is a Nashville-based and New York City-bred singer and songwriter does not belong to any one genre or style. Her new album Bad for Business features Amy Winehouse’s legendary rhythm section, Homer Steinweiss (Holy Hive, Sharon Jones & The Dap-kings) and Nick Movshon (Menahan Street Band, Charles Bradley), a heavy combination that informs the record’s soulful core temperature. Recorded in New York City at The Diamond Mine, the LP shines with a dutiful sense of where Schecter has been while signaling to the new heights she is set to scale. Bad for Business will be available on vinyl via Soul Step Records this summer.

Rodrigo Amarante Presents New Single/Video, "I Can't Wait"

June 16, 2021

Rodrigo Amarante today releases a new single/video, “I Can’t Wait,” from his forthcoming record, Drama, out July 16th via Polyvinyl. The track opens with cascading melodies from a harpsichord and an eerie guitar, later unfurling with synthesizers and sparse syncopations as he ruminates on hope, freedom and urgency. The accompanying video, which was written by Amarante, is cinematic. It beautifully depicts a morning of a fleeting dream, as Amarante wakes up, gets dressed, and walks to send a letter.

"I wrote this song because Jesus is followed by traitors,” says Amarante. “I wrote it because Darwin's ideas are serving the purpose of turning ourselves against one another, because I believe freedom does not stem from independence, separation or disconnect as the dictionaries suggest, but rather from the acknowledgement of our interdependence, because freedom is belonging. I wrote this song because hope isn't enough. I wrote it after bumping into an entry at a Latin dictionary: Noster Nostri - 1: Our, Ours. 2: Our hearts beat as one. 3: That old dream of ours."

Global Fax Festival: A New Performance Film By David Hammons In Collaboration With Monday Evening Concerts

May 25, 2021

‘Global Fax Festival’ a new performanceby David Hammons dedicated to Butch Morris in collaboration with Monday Evening Concerts and pianist Myra Melford Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, 10 May 2021 Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Photo: Elon Schoenholz Photography © 2021 — ‘Global Fax Festival’ a new performance by David Hammons dedicated to Butch Morris in collaboration with Monday Evening Concerts and pianist Myra Melford
Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, 10 May 2021
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
Photo: Elon Schoenholz Photography © 2021

Hauser & Wirth’s digital art magazine Ursula presents ‘Global Fax Festival’ – a new performance film by David Hammons dedicated to composer/conductor Lawrence D. ‘Butch’ Morris and created in collaboration with Los Angeles’ venerated Monday Evening Concerts and virtuoso pianist Myra Melford.

The film documents Hammons’ first-ever restaging of his noted 2000 project ‘Global Fax Festival’ here conducted in the gallery’s outdoor courtyard in early May 2021. After more than a year of isolation during the pandemic, Hammons conceived this event as a gesture toward the reawakening of Los Angeles, set within the space that two years ago hosted the largest survey of his work ever organized.

The new ‘Global Fax Festival’ performance film features a solo improvisational piano performance by Myra Melford. A former Butch Morris collaborator, Melford plays in dialogue with projected footage of Morris, who passed away in 2013, performing Conductions®, his trademarked technique that merges conducting and improvisation.

Friday Playlist: Talk Radio

May 7, 2021

Watch The Premiere Of John Carroll Kirby's Concert For One Featuring Lita Albuquerque

April 2, 2021

Music by John Carroll Kirby
Video by Ross Harris
Performance of the song “Walking Through a House Where a Family Has Lived” from the album Conflict, by John Carroll Kirby

Special thanks to Stones Throw

Friday Playlist: Dubble Stuff

March 26, 2021

As an aural clone to Autre's spring 21 doppelgänger issue, Dubble Stuff is a gamut-running exploration of musical genres that is everything and nothing at once; an avatar perpetually in search of itself.

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Watch The Premiere Of "I Am Love" By ROOS

March 8, 2021

I Am Love is a new video by ROOS the ongoing musical project by the Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist, Ross Simonini The video is the second from ROOS’ debut album, Refrains and is a continuation of his previous video The Well. Simonini released Refrains in conjunction with an exhibition of new paintings at Et Al Gallery in January 2021. Both videos are collaborations with the artist, Rafael Delacruz and include documentation of Simonini’s mudlover performances, which have taken place annually, every winter, across California since 2018. In this video, Simonini performs in the attic of a former Odd Fellow’s Hall, in the town of Forestville, Sonoma County, where the artist formerly lived. The video’s release will be accompanied by two NFTs.

Watch The Music Video For serpentwithfeet's "Same Size Shoe"

March 2, 2021

Track and music video of the 2020s. Period.

Joe McKee Releases Ultra Letizia Album On Salmon Universe

February 17, 2021

Over his varied career Californian-based Australian Joe McKee has been an ever curious sound-traveller, from singer to field recordist and conceptual sound artist. Here he has created the other-worldly musical experience of ULTRA LETIZIA - a cargo ship, on which he crossed the North Pacific ocean from Japan to Vancouver, Washington.

As Joe says: "The sounds you are hearing were collected from me 'playing' the ship like a giant gamelan. I hit, scraped, listened and spoke to the strange industrial beast." Every sound collected is turned into a musically engaging and spiritually elevating piece, reflecting an experience of isolation but in turn revealing a connection to the vessel, it's workers, and the vastness of the ocean itself.

Ultra Letizia is available now on bandcamp and soundcloud. Watch an excerpt of the accompanying film below

Friday Playlist: Space Is The Place

February 5, 2021

Film still, Barbarella, 1968 — Film still, *Barbarella*, 1968

A trip though the cosmos, one cloud, one star, one planet at a time. A collection of soul ballads, sonic love letters, and eccentric oddities.

Autre Exclusive Premiere: Cat Power "From Fur City" An Elegy To Benjamin Smoke

January 29, 2021

Autre presents an exclusive premiere of a never-before-seen live video of Cat Power (Chan Marshall) performing "From Fur City" at Tonic in NYC in 2003, a powerful elegy to radical and legendary musician and songwriter, Benjamin Smoke who died on January 29, 1999. The song "From Fur City" has never been on a proper studio album. Filmed by Scott Crary (Kill Your Idols, 2004).

Friday Playlist: Hipgnosis

January 29, 2021

Enrique Metinides, A Woman Grieves over Her Dead Boyfriend, Stabbed in Chapultepec Park While Resisting Robbers, Mexico City, 1985 — Enrique Metinides, *A Woman Grieves over Her Dead Boyfriend, Stabbed in Chapultepec Park While Resisting Robbers, Mexico City,* 1985

A warm dive into a hipgnotic bath of repetitive grooves, atmospheric tracks and metallic vibrations. Back seat, leather upholstery, dark rooms, flashing lights. A meditation on forgetting who you are on a Saturday night. The dream of vanishing.

Listen on Spotify: A warm dive into a hipgnotic bath of repetitive grooves, atmospheric tracks and metallic vibrations. Back seat, leather upholstery, dark rooms, flashing lights. A meditation on forgetting who you are on a Saturday night. The dream of vanishing.

Friday Playlist: Counter Cortisol

January 15, 2021

Hang in there baby! 2021 is off to a rocky start, so here are some tracks to curb that cortisol rush. Because we all need a little calm after the storm.

Friday Playlist: Be Kind To Your Mind

January 1, 2021

Hit the ground dancing. A new year's playlist. A CDC reccomended mixtape.

Friday Playlist: No Exit

December 25, 2020

Film still, Santa Claus vs. the Devil, 1959 — Film still, *Santa Claus vs. the Devil,* 1959

Hell is other people's playlists. Some ambient rarities. Shoegaze gems. Sound effects. A prick followed by numbness followed by blackness followed by infiniteness.

Friday Playlist: Ballad of Sexual Dependency

December 18, 2020

Nan Goldin, Rise and Monty Kissing, New York City, 1980 — Nan Goldin, *Rise and Monty Kissing, New York City*, 1980

Tender, heartbreaking, beautiful, joyous, Nan Goldin's iconic Ballad Of Sexual Depency changed photography forever. Here is the soundtrack.

Watch The Music Video "Shiny High" By PAULLUS2089 From His Album The Dream Body

December 18, 2020

SHINY HIGH written by PAULLUS2089 from his album THE DREAM BODY. Music video made by Diffan Norman, a Kuala Lumpur-born, LA-based artist. Listen on Spotify. Listen on BandCamp.

Friday Playlist: Mood Ring Cycle

December 11, 2020

Friday moodz. Saturday nudz. Music that hits that oxytocin. Call your crush and say I luv U.

Friday Playlist: Pillow Talk

December 4, 2020

Robert Mapplethorpe, Larry and Bobby Kissing, 1979 — Robert Mapplethorpe, *Larry and Bobby Kissing*, 1979

Soft. Tracks. Makeup Sex. Pillow talk.

Watch The Premiere Of "Dedicated To Pooch" By Very Nice Massage

November 20, 2020

Very Nice Massage are back with their sophomore album, Based On The Data. Released on all streaming platforms as well as cassette tape by Baby Race Records, the album maintains their signature dream-like approach to song structure steeped in post-algorithm schizophrenia, yet there has been a complete overhaul of their palette. This new sound brings their spacey ambitions into full fruition. Very Nice Massage have created a mysterious world that refuses to be solved and the endless pleasures of investigation that keep you coming back for more. Follow @verynicemassage and @babyracerecords on Instagram, stream them on your platform, or better yet, get yourself a limited-edition cassette.

ART / FASHION/ CULTURE / MUSIC / FILM

Daily Journal

Christopher Wool’s See Stop Run Finds Its Home in the Desert

about 2 days ago

A Look Through the Monocle: 100 Years of The New Yorker @ The New York Public Library

about 4 days ago

Herndon & Dryhurst's "Starmirror" @ KW Institute for Contemporary Art

about 2 weeks ago

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Protection is Love. Against the back drop of widespread ICE raids, abductions and violence, @willychavarria held his Fall 2026 runway presentation in Paris, titled Eterno, in the form of a musical steeped in Chicano culture. In SS24 we interviewed @newyorkwilly before he showed in Paris. #willychavarría #eterno #chicano

A few years ago in Memphis with the legendary William Eggleston. See his exhibition The Last Dyes on view at @davidzwirner in New York. The final prints of Eggleston’s using this highly complex dye transfer process. Electric color, crystal clear, a vision of the topographic medium. #williameggleston #memphis

Arthur Jafa will be in artistic dialogue with Richard Prince for an exhibition titled Helter Skelter opening at @fondazioneprada Venice in May - curated by @nespector - Here are some quotes from our interview of Jafa in our SS20 Edge Of Chaos issue, in conversation with @isabellealbuquerque Slide 7 - portrait by @patmartin__ #arthurjafa #prada #fondazioneprada #artbiennale #italy #richardprince

As we’re all seemingly inexplicably returning to 2016, we keep thinking about the wise words of this sage mouse by @ryanjgander which was on view at @camdenarts176 and the power of nostalgia. In times of extreme upheaval, nostalgia acts as a psychological balm, an evolutionary mechanism, for survival and meaning. Ignoring the fact that meta is most likely training their machine learning technologies through the aging of our faces, zooming back to the past offers a reprieve from the violence of the present, even when that time was also marked by the same violence. On social media, we live through these loops through algorithmically generated mechanisms that latch on to our hormonal neuropathways, it keeps us scrolling, docile, unable to resist. #nostalgia #2016 #flashback #ryangander

NIGHT BLOOMING JASMINE. One year since David Lynch left the earthly plane. Photograph by @damienmaloney #davidlynch

“…Whatever we do now is the history of tomorrow.” @wolfgang_tillmans on his new exhibition Keep Movin’ on view now at @regenproject in Los Angeles, an alchemical look to the past, materiality and process — there is sense of weight, pressure, darkness with flickers of the artist’s signature optimism—a relentless pursuit of justice as history makes itself in the present. #wolfgangtillmans #regenprojects

Narcissister “Voyage Into Infinity” a pyrotechnic Neo-burlesque opens at @nyuskirball on January 16. Tickets available NOW. The anonymous, mononymic Narcissister is one of those rare artists who is difficult to define, which is what makes her provocative and evocative performances, kinetic sculptures, and collage work so electric. A one woman, one body gesamtkunstwerk, she plays with race, class, myth, fairytale and femininity with her signature mannequin mask, never revealing her identity in a time when an artist’s recognizability is their strongest currency. @therealnarcissister in conversation with @jeffreydeitchgallery for AUTRE SS21 doppelgänger issue #narcissister #voyageintoinfinity #mask

A love letter to a city made in moving images. Los Angeles is gearing up for one of the most exciting exhibitions in a generation. A true temporary contemporary museum, Berlin- based institution @juliastoschekfoundation is landing in the city of dreams and taking over an entire building DTLA for its time based programming of short films, silent film and moving images. Dozens of artists across multiple floors. Must see. Must not miss. Visit jsf.la for early access. We did. You should. Chris Burden, Poem For LA, 1975 #chrisburden #juliastoschekcollection #cinema #silentfilm

Max Richter, who scored the @chloezhao film Hamnet, which just won the @goldenglobes for best picture, photographed by @kuba_ryniewicz for Autre FW24 “Citizen” Issue Interview by @hansulrichobrist styling @anitaszymczak_ grooming @oliviacochrane art director@martinmajor all clothing @dior men Special thanks @huxley #maxrichter #hamnet #chloezhao

Paul Thomas Anderson’s @goldenglobes award sweep and win for Best Screenplay and Best Director not only asserts the fact that he is the most prescient director of his time, but also that revolution is thick in the air. All his movies capture the zeitgeist, but One Battle After Another, which he started writing the seeds of in the late 1990s carries a rare pulse in the midst of global protests, at home and abroad. Photographs by @amandademme for Autre #4 SS18, Paul Thomas Anderson in conversation with editor-in-chief Oliver Kupper #paulthomasanderson #onebattleafteranother #revolution #goldenglobes #awardsseason

In our FW25 Work In Progress issue we took a pivot into the world of professional racecar driving with a focus on two female drivers: @lynstjames and @zoebarryracing . Now retired, Lyn St. James set astonishing precedents on the track: the first woman to exceed 200 miles an hour on a closed oval, and the first to win an endurance race solo. The sport nearly killed her. In 1986 at Riverside Raceway, another driver triggered a crash that launched her Ford Probe into the air and onto its roof, erupting into a fireball with St. James trapped inside. She escaped—miraculously—without a scratch. In an in-depth conversation, Lyn and Barry discuss the challenges of racing in a sport where women are the outliers. #lynstjames #zoebarry #racecar #motorsport #racing #cars

@kidcudi in Miami for our dinner at @miamibeachedition Scotty Ramon “Echoes Of The Past” - new paintings open at @ruttkowski68 in Paris on Jan 31 Photo by @andrewtess #kidcudi #painting #polaroid

Great book intros remain indelible. Luke Goebel’s incendiary new novel begins with a great description of the Santa Ana winds that one year ago today fueled two of the largest fires in Los Angeles history. Since then, the grift, the corruption, the fraud, the cover up to steal land and obscure blame has been the modus operandi for a city that operates in the shadowy caddy corners of morality. Kill Dick follows in the great tradition of sunshine noir—murder, ambition, intrigue, but with a distinctly contemporary flavor in our era of opioids and attentional economies. And Goebel’s pretty little rich girls are almost too real. The book comes out April 2026 on @redhenpress #lukegoebel #fire #losangeles #santaana

For Autre’s FW25 Work In Progress issue, we partnered with @laeyeworks to produce a series of wide-ranging interviews with @caltechedu scientists working at the frontiers of contemporary space exploration. From the moons of Jupiter and the icy Kuiper Belt to the event horizons of distant black holes and colliding galaxies light-years away, space is the place where our understanding of the universe—and ourselves—collides in spectacular wonder. Mike E. Brown is Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of Planetary Astronomy at Caltech. He has discovered dozens of dwarf planets (and demoted Pluto from planet to dwarf planet), and is currently hot on the trail of Planet Nine—a hypothesized body that is possibly the fifth largest planet of our solar system. Cameron Hummels is a research scientist and Director of Astrophysics at Caltech. He is an expert in galaxies and the processes that dictate their formation and evolution over cosmic time including star formation, supernova, and black holes. Katherine de Kleer is Assistant Professor of Planetary Science and Astronomy at Caltech. She is interested in dynamic planetary processes and how they relate to the surface environments, atmosphere, and thermochemical histories of planets and satellites. All scientists wear l.a.Eyeworks Interviews by @summer.bowie Photographs by @damienmaloney #spaceistheplace #blackhole #space #galaxy #kuiperbelt #telescope #caltech #laeyeworks

𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕘𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕥𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕡𝕒𝕤𝕥 𝕙𝕒𝕦𝕟𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕖𝕟𝕥. To better understand petro-imperialist ambitions in Venezuela—and the environmental devastation they leave behind—we revisit our interview with human rights lawyer Steven Donziger from our FW24 Citizen issue (🔗 in bio). Donziger’s lawsuit, filed on behalf of Amazonian Indigenous communities, targeted Chevron (formerly Texaco) for dumping more than 16 million gallons of toxic wastewater into the Ecuadorian rainforest—an environmental catastrophe thirty times larger than the Exxon Valdez spill. The contamination poisoned rivers, farmland, and drinking water, triggering a brutal wave of cancers, miscarriages, and birth defects across the region. The case ultimately resulted in the largest damages judgment ever awarded in an environmental lawsuit. Venezuela’s entanglement with foreign oil interests has long been shaped by resistance as much as extraction. In the 1970s, following decades of domination by U.S. and European oil companies, the Venezuelan state moved to reclaim sovereignty over its natural resources, nationalizing its oil industry in 1976 and forming Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA). The move was intended to curb foreign exploitation and redirect oil wealth toward national development—an assertion of independence that directly challenged U.S. petro-capital interests. Nearly fifty years later, that struggle persists in a different form. Today, Chevron is the only U.S. oil company operating in Venezuela under a special U.S. government license, granted amid sanctions and geopolitical negotiations. Its presence underscores the cyclical nature of petro-imperialism: even after nationalization, foreign oil power continues to re-enter through exceptions, loopholes, and crises—often with environmental and human costs that echo the past. Photographs by Lou Dematteis/Redux #venezuela #maduro #oil #crude #donziger