Mikael Kennedy: Between Wolf & Dog

Clic Gallery in New York presents Between Wolf & Dog, an exhibition of new Polaroids by New York photographer Mikael Kennedy. Fresh off the heels of Kennedy's internationally-lauded Passport to Trespass series which documented over a decade of the artist's travels via Polaroids, Between Wolf & Dog is an exploration of the dual ferity and domesticity of human existence. Derived from the French saying "L'heure entre chien et loupe" (the hour between dog and wolf) which refers to the golden hour right after sunset, Between Wolf & Dog presents photos of the people in Kennedy's life at moments when their innate liminality is fully exposed. According to the artist, "At the time that I shot these pictures I was starting to feel that border between domestic and wild and I started to look for it in my friends." Featuring new Polaroids, Between Wolf & Dog will open on Thursday, June 7 and remain open through July 8 @ Clic Gallery, 255 Centre Street, New York

Larry Clark in Berlin

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Adolescent beauty, sexuality and drug-induced action – Larry Clark radically and realistically documents the everyday  life of US teenagers, transgressing bourgeois moral concepts. From the drug scene in his hometown of Tulsa in the  early 1960s to contemporary skaters in Los Angeles his works capture extremely intimate moments. The authenticity  of Clarke’s images expose the consequences of a dysfunctional society and question the social responsibility and moral stance of its members.  Larry Clark uses a direct visual language that is both touching and disturbing and creates a fascinating dynamic  between classical pictorial composition and a special choice of themes. His work focuses on the experience of a completely uninhibited sexuality. By exposure it, the artist never denounces or accuses but allows the viewers to  make their own judgement.  C/O Berlin, International Forum For Visual Dialogues, will present for the first time in Germany approx. 200 works of Larry Clark. In addition to his series  “Teenage Lust” and “Los Angeles”, as well as videos, the main focus of the monographic exhibition is on collages, in  which the artist combines found objects. In a similar way to a film or photo series, new associations and implications  are created by supplementing the collages with newspaper cuttings, letters, posters and other objects. The exhibition will be on view until August 12 at C/O Berlin, Postfuhramt at Oranienburger Straße 35/36 in Berlin-Mitt

Song Kun: A Thousand Kisses Deep

The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing, China presents an exhibition of new work by Song Kun, one of China’s most prominent young female artists. Song Kun: A Thousand Kisses Deep, opened yesterday. Hung salon-style across the twin walls of UCCA’s Nave, the exhibition features a new cycle of 28 shimmering paintings, technical studies of drifting light evoking a sinister, sensual beauty and the dual themes of carnality and spirituality. Paired with an immersive video installation, this presentation showcases the latest practice of one of China’s most interesting young painters. Song Kun: A Thousand Kisses Deep is on view until July 15 at the The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art,  798 Art District, No. 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China

SELF EVIDENT TRUTHS

Last Tuesday The Hole Gallery in New York City presented the one night only photo exhibition by iO Tillett Wright entitled Self Evident Truths hosted by Terence Koh with a performance by CocoRosie. Prints on the wall sold for $10 each to support the continuing efforts of Self Evident Truth project. In 2010, Tillett Wright began a project titled Self Evident Truths, photographing anyone that felt like they qualified to fall on some part of the LGBTQ spectrum, from bisexual, to transgender. Shot in simple black and white, in natural light, with no makeup or styling, the photos emulate Avedon’s In The American West and August Sander’s People of the 20th Century, and are intended to humanize the very varied face of gays in America today.

Ellen von Unwerth - Do Not Disturb

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Michael Hoppen Gallery in London presents an exclusive, new body of work from Ellen von Unwerth entitled Do Not Disturb!. Straight from the camera to the wall, this latest series of photographs has all the sexy motifs of Ellen’s signature style. The Madonna Inn, LA, sets the scene for these highly stylised and richly coloured images of women, who range from the delicate coquette to robust dominatrix. Each of the rooms in this renowned LA hotel features imaginative and fantastical interior design, as individual as the characters that occupy them, lending to the seductive fantasy narrative of a wild weekend away. Ellen von Unwerth – Do Not Disturbwill be on view from June 21 to August 31, 2012 at the Michael Hoppen Gallery, 3 Jubilee Place, London

Teen to Release Debut Album

Been listening to this track on repeat. Teen is set to release their debut full-length, In Limbo, on August 28th via Carpark Records. Brooklyn's Teen came together when Teeny Lieberson, formerly of Here We Go Magic, left her post in the latter band in order to make music with her sisters Katherine and Lizzie and their good friend Jane Herships. Forgoing girl-group gimmickry and fervor, the band’s digital-only debut EP, Little Doods, fleshed out a sound of languid, lo-fi psyche pop redolent of Paisley Underground bands like Opal and Rain Parade. Since releasing the EP in April 2011, the band have steadily honed their sound around New York and readied their first long-player, In Limbo. Recorded in summer 2011 in a barn in rural Connecticut and engineered by Jen Turner of Here We Go Magic, In Limbo keeps the band grounded in their own world of psychedelia while heightening fidelity and giving songs the room to take shape. The first half of the record puts pop at the fore with opener Better, a Suicide-esque march toward euphoria through repetition. In Limbo was mixed and produced by Spacemen 3's Sonic Boom, and his influence subtly makes itself known throughout the album.

Patty Smith @ The DIA

The DIA (Detroit Institute of Art) will present the first American museum exhibition to focus on the photography of artist, poet, and performer Patti Smith. Smith's photographs are infused with personal meaning and highlight the rich relationships between art, architecture, poetry and the everyday. This selection of images from the past decade reveals the artists, poets, authors, family and friends from whom Smith draws inspiration. The exhibition includes 70 black and white gelatin silver prints and a small selection of original Polaroids and items from Smith’s personal collection. Patti Smith: Camera Solo will be on view from June 1st to September 2, 2012 at the DIA, 5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan

[FIRST LOOK] M83 'Reunion' Official video

Directed by Fleur & Manu and Produced by DIVISION, Reunion is part two of the story that commenced with Midnight City. Together, these two tracks are the soundtrack for a pack of gifted kids with telekinetic powers who escape from an institution and run wild through a desolate cityscape. In the first video we witness their liberation, with Reunion we experience their defiance. Reunion is the second single off of the massive sixth M83 album Hurry Up We’re Dreaming. 

CRUELLY, MADLY, DEEPLY

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Between 1969 and his death at age 37 in 1982, brilliant enfant terrible German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder made 30 films and numerous television productions, including the 15-hour mini-series BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ. Even as he averaged two to three films per year, his work maintained a meticulous, rigorous style, marked by stunning shot composition, laser-precision blocking and deep characterization ranging from bitterly crystal clear to hypnotically allusive. Fassbinder returned to the same themes and fixations again and again: money, sex, pride and cruelty. Postwar Germany is often his cinematic landscape - the place of drained, falsified dreams where his characters make the most of things and act with their own best interests in mind. Fassbinder himself was plain, drug-addicted and gay, and had much in common with the outsiders he created. He was notorious for the same cruel nature seen in his films, and behaved heartlessly toward those who loved and surrounded him. Still, over the course of his short, astonishing career, he collected a team of dazzling recurring players, including cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and actresses Hanna Schygulla, Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira and Irm Hermann. Whether the strain of working with the director was worth the staggering output is hard to say - Ballhaus “burned out” after The Marriage of Maria Braun and went to work with Martin Scorsese. But, as film critic and ardent fan Roger Ebert wrote, “Fassbinder was a genius. That much everyone admitted.” On the 30th anniversary of his death, the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles unveils a 16-film retrospective of the work of Rainer Werner Fassbinder from May 31 to June 14.