As the Flaming Lips get closer to releasing their new album, entitled The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, a limited edition vinyl record which features an the likes of Bon Iver, Erykah Badu, Neon Indian, Nick Cave and Ke$ha, which is set for an April 21st release, they release a bonus track called Now I Understand which takes samples from the Iphone and Siri, and a vocal track by Erykah Badu.
Photography by Adarsha Benjamin
One of the most important artist's working today is without a doubt Doug Aitken. From photography, sculpture, and architectural interventions, to films, sound, single and multi-channel video works, and installations Aitken's work is a truly unique and distinctive voice of this century. On view now at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C., Aitken's multimedia exhibition, entitled Song 1, is a 360 degree projection of films onto the exterior museum set to the soundtrack of the 193os jazz standard reinterpreted by the likes of LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy, Beck, Devendra Banhart, No Age and more. Song 1 "will illuminate the entire facade of the Hirshhorn’s iconic building, transforming it into 'liquid architecture' and an urban soundscape. Using eleven high-definition video projectors, Aitken will seamlessly blend imagery to envelop the Museum's exterior, creating a work that redefines cinematic space." Doug Aitken: SONG 1 will be on view until May 13, 2012.
Cara Delevingne (left), Mickey Madden of Maroon 5, Lily Donaldson (center) between her cover and spread in the current issue of AUTRE at Coachella.
Last Friday at the Stella McCartney boutique in Los Angeles Paul McCartney premiered his music video for My Valentine off his current album Kisses on the Bottom. The video stars Natalie Portman and Johnny Depp.
Rub Out The Words, the long awaited compilation of letters of William S. Burroughs.
The Keith Haring Foundation has been scanning Keith Haring's journals dating from middle school to 1989 – some of which are featured in the show of works at the Brooklyn Museum and a page will be post each day for the duration of the show through July 8, 2012. The show is the first large scale survey of the artist's early works.
Opening today in Los Angeles, an exhibition entitled Contains Nudity, is a retrospective of the nude fashion photography of Dazed & Confused Magazine co-founder Rankin. It includes some models with such household names as Kate Moss, Helena Christensen, Erin O’Connor, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Yasmin Le Bon and the former Mrs Seal, Heidi Klum. It will run for six weeks,until May 26th at the Rankin Gallery which is located at 8070 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, California.
Dustin Dollin and Cara Delevingne with AUTRE ISSUE 002 at Coachella. Photograph by Adarsha Benjamin.
GG Allin naked and smearing and throwing his own feces at the audience whilst performing his hit tune Bite It You Scum. Performance art or disturbing?
His LSD-inspired heroes, rampant sex and frontal assaults on political correctness made comic artist Robert Crumb an icon of US counter-culture, but why on earth, he wonders, put his work on show in a museum? Crumb's cult universe, from hippy-era characters like "Fritz the Cat" to his cartoon take on the Bible, is on show -- uncensored -- until August at Paris' Museum of Modern Art, hosting the largest-ever retrospective of his work. Many of the 600 works on display are original drawings shown for the first time, loaned by a handful of private collectors in Europe and the United States. Crumb: De l’Underground à la Genèse will be on view at the Paris Museum of Modern Art until August 19, 2012.
Artist Richard Prince opens a gallery, rare bookshop, and publishing house called Fulton Ryder in NYC.
Thanks to Michael Barrie for Chet Baker's lost memoir entitled As Though I Had Wings
Alongside the 2012 SHOWstudio Shop exhibition Selling Sex, SHOWstudio launches Fashion Fetish, a series of fashion films, performances, multi-media pieces and accompanying essays by women in fashion. The latest addition takes us on a trip to the coastline, courtesy of acclaimed photographer and film director Poppy de Villeneuve.
Since the invention of small hand-held cameras and faster films in the late 19th century, photographers have been fascinated with capturing everyday life in the urban environment. An exhibition of nearly 90 works will celebrate how photographers such as Harry Callahan, Bruce Davidson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Beat Streuli creatively pursued a new genre of street photography, capturing the diversity and rapid pace of modern life.I Spy: Photography and the Theater of the Street, 1938–2010 is on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. from April 22 to August 5, 2012.
This Friday at the Roll Up Gallery in San Francisco will present Matthew Henri's solo exhibition of new works entitled Made in America. Using his unique silkscreen method "Henri will present portraits of bank robbers and wanted posters, prostitutes of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco’s now defunct red light district, old whiskey bottles, railroad ties, public hangings, along with other haunting ephemeral nostalgia. By digging further than most, culling and obtaining imagery from obscure books and libraries, with exhaustive research, and artifacts such as nudie playing cards found at seedy liquor stores on the outskirts of the Las Vegas desert, Henri has created an extremely visceral and heartbreaking portrait of an American landscape...." Made in America will be on view from April 13 to April 29 at Roll Up Gallery, 161 Erie Street, San Francisco.
London based designer Gabriella Marina Gonzalez presents her amazing Autumn/Winter 2012 collection entitled Un-Self Portrait which was designed, hand made and shot by the designer while traveling abroad in the United States. Using material she pick up along the way, the collection includes vintage monkey fur reassembled from a 1920’s coat to form part of the showpiece dress. In the designer’s signature style, shredded silk appliqué was made from discontinued chiffon. Vinyl from a 1950’s table cover manufacturer’s dead stock was used to create metal like tubes and a new take on the GMG harness. Silk rope from home decor was used to create luxury straps on high gloss wooden platform shoes.
Performance artist, pseudo-porn star, singer, Actually Huizenga looks like a throw back to something out of the pages of Hustler circa-1979, but the vision she is creating through her art and music is distinctly new - even verging on futuristic. Huizenga, born and raised in the Hollywood Hills, specializes in "raw Bacchanalian Los Angeles music video kitsch" and performs live as Actually with her band Wet Look - a solo record is on its way. And along with her collaborator Socrates Mitsios are creating a series of 5 to 8 minute videos, entitled SoftRock, that they call an "exercise in the photogenics of sex, exploring the power within the act (both social and aesthetic)." They also refer to the films as "Pop Rape" which in its simple, brilliant distillation is a perfect term to describe an entirely new, futuristic brand of cinema and music. The first two installments of SoftRock premiered at the Pompidou Centre as part of Diane Pernet's A Shaded View on Fashion Film, and a third installment is currently being edited and is due out soon. Actually will perform at King, King in Los Angeles on April 19.
Video for Simian Mobile Disco's Seraphim which is the opening single from Simian Mobile Disco’s forthcoming album Unpatterns out May 15 via Wichita Recordings.
"In the mid-1970s, Britain’s fortunes seemed to have reached their lowest point since the Blitz. As inflation rocketed, the pound collapsed and car bombs exploded across London, as Harold Wilson consoled himself with the brandy bottle, the Treasury went cap in hand to the IMF and the Sex Pistols stormed their way to notoriety, it seemed that the game was up for an exhausted nation. But what was life really like behind the headlines?"Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain – 1974 -1979 by Dominic Sandbrook covers a privotal moment in Britain's history with societal unrest and the rise of the punk movement.