World Unite! Lucifer Youth Foundation

Manchester band WU LYF, short for World Unite! Lucifer Youth Foundation, are mysterious as hell–they don't do interviews and don't divulge much to the press. They just premiered a new song at BBC’s Maida Vale studios called “Brooklyn Girls” as well as performed a track favorite off their debut album Go Tell Fire To The Mountain, called “L Y F”. WU LYF’s debut album is out September 6.

 

[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.

Sigmar Polke: Photoworks

Leo Koenig Inc. (NYC), in collaboration with Winckler Fine Arts, Berlin, presents the opening of "Sigmar Polke: Photoworks 1964-2000". "Widely acknowledged as one of the most important creative forces to emerge from post World War II Europe, Sigmar Polke was an artist of incredible unpredictability. From the very beginning, and throughout his career, Polke resisted the idea of an identifying “signature.” In his practice, the artist incorporated techniques borrowed from mass marketing and commercial realms into a proscenium of images that overlap and resonate over time.  Over the course of his life, Polke made thousands of photographs and the selection of works for this exhibition keenly highlights the integral role that photography had played in the artist’s larger oeuvre.  Also included is an eerie selection of photographs taken at the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, and a series of photograms in which Polke experimented with, among other untried techniques, the effects of radioactive materials on the photographic process. On view until September 3 at Leo Koenig NYC. www.leokoenig.com

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Self Portraits by Abbey Meaker

Let the blues run the game–an intimate moment with Abbey Meaker by Abbey Meaker in her new series of self portraits.  Abbey's photographs have a supercharged romantic auto-erotism that beckons, in a sincerely unremorseful reflection of lust and loss, a visual treatise that summons grainy, black and white visions of a restless Eros in her boudoir.    www.abbeymeaker.com

Text by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

THE ROAD OF HOPE - YOKO ONO

Photo: Annie Leibovitz

Congratulations to Yoko Ono who is the winner of the 8th Hiroshima Art Prize for her efforts in spreading world peace.  An awards ceremony is scheduled together with an exhibition commemorating the presentation of the award to Yoko Ono at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art. "It is greatly anticipated that this commemorative exhibition will help communicate, from Hiroshima to the world, the messages of Yoko Ono that are rich with the inspiration of the abolition of nuclear weapons and the creation of a world without war, and it is thought that the exhibition will have a great effect on garnering attention to this Hiroshima Art Prize across the globe." The 8th Hiroshima Art Prize: THE ROAD OF HOPE - YOKO ONO 2011,  Saturday July 30th to Sunday October 16. www.hcmca.cf.city.hiroshima.jp

The Photographic Album of Joan Colom

Joan Colom was born in Barcelona in 1921. Following military service, he became an accountant in a firm where he stayed until his retirement in 1986. But at the age of 36 he also developed a passion for photography, joining the Photographic Association of Catalonia where he very quickly learnt the technical skills that helped him in his atypical career. Colom is considered one of the most important photographers of the 50s and 60s and one of the greatest documentalists of everyday life in Barcelona. With both passion and respect, his series gave expression to the spirit of Barcelona’s Raval district and became one of the most exceptional photography essays of the time. An exhibition at the Fundació Foto Colectania in Barcelona presents for the first time to the public an unedited album, which includes some of the author's favorite photographs, selected and arranged by him in a graphic sequence of great impact. On view until October 29 www.colectania.es

To Love the Glove....

Armor glove–a collaboration between jeweler Shaun Leane and Daphne Guinness–encrusted  with 18-carat hand cut diamonds.  Guinness: "The detail in its design is hugely symbolic. The birds with which it is embellished denote freedom from the material world. The gold from which it is molded was thought to have magical powers. Like the knights of my childhood daydreams, this beautiful glove is resilient and beautiful, strong despite its finery."

LIEKO SHIGA: CANARY

Galerie Priska Pasquer in Cologne, Germany presents the 'Canary' series by Japanese artist Lieko Shiga, for which she won the 'Infinity Award (Young Photographer)' from the International Center of Photography, New York, in 2009. In 'Canary', Lieko Shiga combines personal accounts of people and local myths with her own personal memories, feelings and experiences to create fantastic, often perplexing scenarios. The works interact to form a complex, dramatic tableau that vacillates between dreams and reality. On view until July 30. www.priskapasquer.de