Enormous thanks to Alex Vancil and The Thousands, Australia's go to guide for all things culturally relevant and cool, for the amazing review on Autre's second issue. It was hard to choose just one quote: "Channeling a potent combination of anti-heroism and raw intimacy, the magazine casts long shadows of various experimental attitudes in a wide range of artistic nooks and crannies." Read the full review here.
Christo and Jeanne-ClaudeFor centuries, great artists have been drawn together in friendship and in love. In Artists in Love
One of our favorite photographers Megan McIsaac is featured in the new issue of No Thoughts, a zine which features photographers from around the globe.
On view this month at Luxembourg & Dayan gallery in New York, works by Punk propagandist Mark Flood who has been making art for the last three decades in his unique style of commentary on contemporary culture that is both shocking and witty. The show, entitled Mark Flood: The Hateful Years will be on view from July 18 through September 29, Luxembourg & Dayan, 64 E 77th St
Sprüth Magers London presents a solo exhibition of work by Jenny Holzer. The American artist finds ways to make narrative a part of visual objects, employing an innovative range of materials and presentations to confront emotions and experiences, politics and conflict. Entitled Sophisticated Devices, this exhibition provides a survey of Holzer’s practice, encompassing her spray paint canvases, granite benches, LED works, painted signs, and cast plaques. Sophisticated Devices is on view until July 28 at Sprüth Magers, 7A Grafton Street, London
Denmark fashion label Han Kjøbenhavn street casted people living on the streets of Copenhagen to star in the latest short film for their AW 2012 collection.
An exhibition view of Ida Applebroog's installation entitled Monalisa on view at Documenta (13) in Kassel, Germany until Setember 16
Photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Brett Whitley's StudioA new exhibition explores the late artist Brett Whiteley’s art and life from 1960 to 1967 when he was largely based in London. Key abstract works from this period as well as paintings from his Bathroom, Christie and London Zoo series, and the Endlessnessism monoprints of conversations with the artist Francis Bacon are featured in this exhibition at the Brett Whiteley Studio in Surry Hills, Australia. This remarkable body of work displays all the dexterity, imagination and ambition of a prodigious talent still in his 20s. On view from Jul 13, 2012 to February 13, 2013, The Brett Whiteley Studio at 2 Raper Street, Surry Hills, Australia
The Humping Pact was developed by two venture fiction entrepreneurs, Diego Agullo and Dmitry Paranyushkin, in the field of polysingularity, during a residency at PACT Zollverein center for performance and choreography in Essen, Germany. What is a venture fiction entrepreneur? Venture fiction is "a practice of creating enterprises in order to communicate ideas and not the other way round. Each enterprise proposes its own system of perception with multiple solutions. It is not there to make a statement or to generate profits. It is there to propose its own world, behavior, and episteme." Diego Agullo and Dmitry Paranyushkin's mission is to get their humpers to hump all around the world as an "aesthetic meditation on the human desire to believe in the futile and to conceive the impossible." The Humping Pact's mission is spread by a number of mediums which include exhibitions, live performances, film showings, projections, photo prints and press publications. The Humping Pact's new "mission" will premiere at Beursschowburg in Brussels on October 5 2012.
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti have revealed a new and original song from forthcoming album, Mature Themes, out August 21st on 4AD records.
(Art) Amalgamated presents Frances Goodman’s first solo show in New York Touched. Recognized as one of South Africa’s leading young artists, Goodman has become well known for her multi-media works that explore issues of female identity in ways that are often humorously dark and cryptic. By looking at everyday obsessions and behavior she explores the way people respond to our contemporary, highly materialistic society and the often idiosyncratic coping mechanisms they develop. Her work reflects a morbid ambiguity of excess and loss, a dislocation between appearance and truth. Touched is on view until August 4, 2012 at (Art) Amalgamated, 317 10th Avenue, New York
Laisvyde Salciute's new exhibition on view this month at Vyner Street Gallery is inspired by Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando. A Biography where the protagonist of the novel is not subject to gender or time constraints and lives a life of oscillating sex through the ages. This brave reevaluation of gender is one of the biggest values of the novel. Salciute says, "According to Jacques Lacan, any constant sensual and visual identity can only reach us as a gap between words and images. In this series of artwork I was interested in transforming reality into a traumatic phantasm or a dream in a dream. From random images and quotations resourced from the Internet, I have fabricated visual puns on distance, scarcity, desire and images of disintegrating identity and illusion as existing in indefinite time and space." Orlando. A Biography, a series of 26 silkscreens will be on view from July 19 to July 21, 2012 at Vyner Street Gallery, 23 Vyner Street London
Photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Adarsha in the crystal blue waters of the American River, California, photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
photograph by Javier Ferrer Vidal
303 Gallery presents Marxism, an exhibition that examines the sociopolitical impact of the rebellious humor of the Marx Brothers - Chico, Groucho, Gummo, Harpo, and Zeppo - in relation to artwork by a gang of five contemporary artists - Marcel Duchamp, Jack Goldstein, Rodney Graham, Tim Lee and Richard Prince. The Marx Brothers are known for their subversive satire that cleverly addresses political and social issues with a touch of slapstick or a "honk honk" of Harpo's horn. Their beloved films continue to make people laugh with their particular brand of anarchic humor, where everything is taken literally and humor acts as a defense against the woes of the world. From Groucho's iconic mustache, glasses, and cigar to Chico's phony Italian accent and Harpo's squeaky walking stick, the Marx Brothers are unparalleled entertainers immortalized for their wit and use of simple props to address topics ranging from love and war to show business with a staunchly anti-authoritarian stance. Duchamp, Goldstein, Graham, Lee and Prince are similar innovators and provocateurs in the world of contemporary art, who have made work that relates to or references themes in the Marx Brothers' oeuvre. The exhibition will present works by each of the four artists as well as a large collection of historical material relating to the Marx Brothers, including films, photographs, records and props. Marxism is on view until August 3, 2012 at 303 Gallery, 547 W 21st Street
A great photograph of James Franco and Paul McCarthy for McCarthy and son Damon's contribution to Rebel in the exhibition monograph co-published by MOCA Los Angeles and OHWOW.
Charline Formenty is a choreographer from Paris. Here she is wearing a Pas Un Autre tee featuring the young poet Arthur Rimbaud. Available here.
Adarsha & Chaussette, Photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper