Lover
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This band is going to be enormous. The Echo Vamper is a duo formed by real life couple Iza Mortag Freund, from Denmark, and James Brook, from England, who just released their first EP in October, entitled It's The Echo Vamper, and are already making enormous waves with their unbelievably explosive sound. Above is a video for their track Lover, a single off their current EP. See music video after the jump.
VAMOS ALA PLAYA
Photography - Styling Elvis Di Fazio.
[MIAMI BASEL] Fountain Art Fair
Fountain Art Fair will return to Art Basel Miami Beach, taking over the 25th St / North Miami warehouse for its 6th consecutive year. Opening Thursday, December 1st for a VIP & Press Preview, Fountain will set itself apart from other internationally applauded fairs with its vivacious, rogue attitude and selection of the most cutting-edge alternative galleries and independent artists. Fountain is thrilled to announce that the always audacious Grace Exhibition Space will curate an on-site, weekend-long program of evocative contemporary visual performance by artists Gim Gwang Cheol (Korea), Myk Henry (Ireland/NYC), Erik Hokanson (NYC), Quinn Dukes (NYC), Jill McDermid (Outer Space), Paul White (UK), and Hannah Dean (UK). Also joining the roster for Miami is original Fountain exhibitor Front Room, along with Tinca Art, We-are-Familia, and Untitled ArtProjects. This year Fountain Miami’s signature on-site street art installation is curated by Samson Contompasis, director of Albany’s The Marketplace, and will feature over 150 feet of work by fifteen of the most in-demand street artists including Sharktoof, Chris Stain, Olek, Hugh Leeman, Chor Boogie, OverUnder, White Cocoa, Army of One, Clown Soldier, Joe Iurato, CAKE, Tip-Toe, Elle, Ian Ross, and Know Hope.
DANS L'INTIMITÉ DES PEINTRES
Paris Match opens its archives reveals exceptional and rare moments in the heart of the mystery of creation: artists at work, in the privacy of their studios and their secret gardens, surrounded by their families. Unique perspective on the ceiling of the Opera by Chagall, Dali's daydreams, the suns of Miro, the studies of Francis Bacon: beyond the works, Paris Match by the discovery of these men of genius in a new book entitled Dans l'intimité des peintres.
Pain in Heart
Ska pop phenom from Norway, Razika releases a music video for their track Vondt i Hjertet from their acclaimed album Program 91. Razika recently made their debut in the United States with their first show in New York City where the quartet filmed four music videos. Vondt i Hjertet is the video first to be released, directed by Mona Lerche and stars actor Brady Cobert (13, Melancholia) and Stephanie Ellis (Burning Blue, Art Machine) as lovers in embrace tucked away in a car and the band themselves, playing live at Pete's Candy Store in Brooklyn.
Laurel Nakadate: Say You Love Me
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Laurel Nakadate: Say You Love Me at the Sert Gallery, at Harvard in Cambridge, Mass, will feature a selection of videos by the artist, filmmaker, and photographer Laurel Nakadate, whose work pushes the boundaries of voyeurism, exhibitionism, and vulnerability. In videos such as Happy Birthday, she performs a Lolita-like role in a series of sometimes unsettling fictional vignettes with mostly white, middle-aged men she meets through chance encounters. In others, including Good Morning Sunshine, she continues to exploit the unsavory yet titillating nature of interactions between older men and girls by voicing the role of a predator. Nakadate is always in control, whether in front of or behind the camera; yet her intention is not to make fun of her collaborators. Her videos are complicated but ultimately empathetic meditations on loneliness and longing. Laurel Nakadate: Say You Love Me is on view from November 18 to December 22 at Sert Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
[BOOKS] Alive Inside the Wreck
From his name to his college transcript to his literary style, Nathanael West was self-invented. Born Nathan Weinstein, the author of the classics Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939) was an uncompromising artist obsessed with writing the perfect novel. He pursued his passion from New York to California, flirting dangerously with the bleak, faux-glamour of Hollywood as the country suffered through the grim realities of the Great Depression. At the center of a circle of vigorous young literary writers that included Malcolm Cowley, William Carlos Williams, F. Scott Fitzgerald, S. J. Perelman, and Dashiell Hammett, West rose to become one of the most original literary talents of the twentieth century—an accomplished yet regrettably underappreciated master of the short lyric novel. West was finally starting to enjoy financial stability as a Hollywood screenwriter when he died in the California desert. A notoriously bad driver, he was racing back from a vacation in Mexico with his young bride of eight months when he crashed at full speed into another car. He was dead at the age of 37. Out now on OR Books by Joe Woodward, a biography of Nathanael West entitled Alive Inside The Wreck. You can also purchase the biography here.
[AUTRE TV] Beats Take the School
Beatniks take over a school in this collaboration by James Franco & Adarsha Benjamin. Shot in NYC.
Kenneth Anger-Icons Opening
Brian Butler & Kenneth Anger at the opening of Kenneth Anger: ICONS exhibit at MoCA Los Angeles. Photograph by Brad Elterman.
L’âme érotique
Anne Pigalle performs and reads from L’âme érotique Nov 21, 33 Store St, London, Covent Garden 7.30 to 10 pm
White on Sex
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Anne Pigalle, White on Sex, Mixed media, 2003-2011
Cunt Me In by Anne Pigalle
This year you'll be hearing a lot from Anne Pigalle. The parisian avant-garde punk-rock poetess has made her life into art and vice-versa for the past three decades. Recently, she released a series of erotically charged poems songs set to music entitled L’âme érotique.
Back Home
Photograph by Alexander Alexseenko, Kiev
Maison Martin Margiela, LOVE, etc.
At Art Basel Miami Beach 2011, Maison Martin Margiela will present Love, etc., an off-site installation in the Miami Design District situated near its Miami retail location. This exhibition will feature the Maison’s Line 13, dedicated to objects & publications. Line 13 also explores the Maison’s relationship with interiors. November 29 through Saturday, December 3, 4141 NE 2nd Avenue Miami, FL 33137.
JASON RHOADES at AMERICAN EXUBERANCE
Jason Rhoades' 'Untitled' neon and wire sculpture on view at the American Exuberance exhibit in Miami at the The Rubell Family Collection opening November 30 in Miami.
American Exuberance
Stake: Art is Food for Thought and Food Costs Money, 1985
American Exuberance at the Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation will include 64 artists and 190 artworks, 40 of which were made in 2011, many specifically for this exhibition. American Exuberance will occupy all 28 galleries in the 45,000 sq. ft. museum, and all works in the exhibition are drawn from the Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation. On view from November 30 to July 27, 2012, 95 NW 29th Street, Miami, FL
Red Song
Music video track for Red Song from Montreal's Suuns off their new 12" entitled Bambi, out now on Secretly Canadian. Culled from old found tapes and edited together on an old VHS recorder the band bought for $4, the video features lead singer Ben Shemie overlapped with distorted images.
The Model Boy
Photograph by David Siqueiros (C) 2011. All Rights Reserved.
