[FIRST LOOK] Twin Sister 'Bad Street'
Twin Sister release their first music video for the track Bad Street off their upcoming album In Heaven due out late September. "Shot at lead singer Andrea Estella's family's house in Long Island and populated by her bandmates, friends, and family, the video is a genuine peek into one of the many worlds that have shaped Twin Sister's wide ranging styles." Directed by Dan Devine.
[BOOKS] Rebels in Paradise
"Los Angeles, 1960: There was no modern art museum and there were few galleries, which is exactly what a number of daring young artists liked about it, among them Ed Ruscha, David Hockney, Robert Irwin, Bruce Nauman, Judy Chicago and John Baldessari. Freedom from an established way of seeing, making, and marketing art fueled their creativity, which in turn inspired the city. Today Los Angeles has four museums dedicated to contemporary art, around one hundred galleries, and thousands of artists. Here, at last, is the book that tells the saga of how the scene came into being, why a prevailing Los Angeles permissiveness, 1960s-style, spawned countless innovations, including Andy Warhol's first exhibition, Marcel Duchamp's first retrospective, Frank Gehry's mind-bending architecture, Rudi Gernreich's topless bathing suit, Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider, even the Beach Boys, the Byrds, the Doors, and other purveyors of a California style. In the 1960s, Los Angeles was the epicenter of cool." You can purchase the book here.
[MUSIC VIDEO] Cults "GO OUTSIDE"
Premier of Cults' music video for "Go Outside", directed by Isaiah Seret.
Photography: David Goldblatt's Apartheid
A farmer’s son with his nursemaid, Heimweeberg, Nietverdiend, 1964
Photographer David Goldblatt has explored the social landscape of South Africa since the late 1940s. In 1987, he generously donated a large collection of his work to the V&A. The display will present a selection of these images, focussing on the later years under apartheid rule. The display complements the exhibition Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography in the Porter Gallery.
Steven with Sight Seeing Bus, Doornfontein, Johannesburg, 1960
Miss Lovely Legs Competition. 1979/80
Holdup in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, November 1963
Van Dongen: Fauve, Anarchist, Socialite
Tango with an Archangel
The Musée d’Art Moderne is offering a fresh appreciation of Kees Van Dongen (1877–1968), the dazzling, disconcerting painter who made his reputation in Paris in the 1920s. This is a comprehensive look at a multifaceted personality: the socially-conscious Dutchman ever ready to caricature and denounce, the avant-garde artist and iconic Fauve, and one of the Roaring Twenties' leading figures on the trendy Paris scene. The exhibition includes and adds to "All eyes on Kees Van Dongen", shown at the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam (18 September 2010 – 23 January 2011). www.mam.paris.fr