A Minka Sicklinger tattoo, one of many, on Clark Phillips. Minka Sicklinger will be tattooing at Pamela Love's pop up tattoo parlor at Milk/Made’s Digital Bar during her presentation as part of New York Fashion Week between September 8 and 9. photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
A new exhibition at Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, England is a comprehensive survey of work by Tony Arefin (1962–2000), a graphic designer who emerged during the late 1980s as one of the most important figures in the British art world. With his numerous catalogues for institutions such as the Serpentine Gallery, ICA, Chisenhale Gallery and Ikon itself, Arefin had achieved such art world dominance by the early 1990s that design critic Rick Poynor described him as ‘single-handedly processing the print needs of the entire British art scene’. Comprising early publications from the YBA movement to seminal advertising campaigns for corporate clients such as IBM, Ikon’s exhibition reveals the intuitive genius of Arefin’s work. Arefin & Arefin: The graphic design of Tony Arefin will be on view between September 12 and November 4, 2012 at Ikon Gallery, 1 Oozells Square Brindleyplace, West Midlands, United Kingdom
This artist’s book documents Dan Colen’s 2011 exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in New York, as well as his June 2012 Gagosian exhibition in Paris. Drawing from mass media, local environment, and subculture, Dan Colen’s art imbues the ordinary, the disenfranchised, and the tribal with provocative new status. This publication includes over fifty new works, including Colen’s series of Grass, Gum, Confetti, and Stud, with extensive details of the works. There is also text by Harmony Korine. Now available by Rizzoli.
Julia Holtercollaborates with José Wolff on Video for Goddess Eyes I. Julia Holter and visual artist José Wolff share Los Angeles as home and worked together on a video for Holter's Sea Called Me Home, an earlier piece in Holter's repertoire. When Wolff approached Holter to create a video for Goddess Eyes I from her 2012 album Ekstasis, the two embarked on a journey to divine the celestial / human mystery of the song. "The first thing that came to mind was an image that gradually deteriorates with visual noise, echoing the sonic noise present in the song," says Wolff. "We go from lightness to darkness, away from a structured, fabricated place and into raw territory." The video is Holter's fifth (but not final) from Ekstasis. Fresh off a string of shows with Sigur Ros, Holter picks up touring at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City, New York this Friday, August 31st making her way down the coast to the Hopscotch Festival in Raleigh, North Carolina.
April Wood is a metalsmith artist working with the complex relationship between food and the body. Wood is interested in the ritual process of eating and the tools societies use to feed one another. For the artist, eating is a form of consumption, which can span a range of emotions, from pleasurable to horrific, from overindulgent to controlling. In this way Wood’s larger discussion on food’s often contradictory role in the contemporary society relates to the Collections Selections theme of excess. Her Feeding the Hunger sculptures become activated performances when placed in a person’s mouth. April Wood: New Works is on view until December 2, 2012, at AMOA-Arthouse, 3809 West 35th Street
Haunch of Venison presents London-based artist Kevin Francis Gray’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will showcase several of Gray’s porcelain, bronze and marble sculptures that merge elements of both classicism and the sculpted human form with an aesthetic that contextualises the work firmly within the visual landscape of contemporary society. On view from September 4 to September 29, at Haunch of Venison, 550 West 21st Street
A discovery of a small number of copies of Brian Griffin’s extremely rare classic photobook Open, which features in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger’s The Photobook: A History, vol. I. is soon available by Dewi Lewis Publishing. Published in 1988 in an edition of only 350 copies, Brian found himself too occupied with other projects to be able to focus on selling all the print run and put the balance into temporary store. Over twenty years later he rediscovered them. Quirky portraits, enigmatic still lifes and landscapes in a similar vein, all appear in Open, which was self-published along with a number of other photobooks by Griffin under the imprint Black Pudding. These were projects of self-expression as well as being ‘calling cards’. Orders are now being taken and the edition will be released in November 2012.
Cat Power’s new LP Sun is out on September 4 via Matador. Listen to the track Cherokee remixed by Nicolas Jaar below.
Coming to the Tate Modern this October, an exhibition that explores the relationship between the work of William Klein (born 1928), one of the 20th century’s most important and influential photographers and filmmakers, and that of Daido Moriyama (born 1938), the most celebrated photographer to emerge from the Provoke movement in 1960s Japan. Taking as its central themes the cities of New York and Tokyo, it traces the influence of Klein’s landmark 1956 photo-book, Life is Good & Good for you in New York: Trance Witness Revels, on Japanese photography, using Moriyama as a focus. It brings together for the first time, vintage photographs from Klein’s New York work, as well as those taken in Tokyo and Paris, with work made by Moriyama in the same cities, including landmark projects from the 1970s such as Moriyama’s Another Country in New York, and Farewell Photography. In addition to exploring the central role of the photo-book in the history of avant-garde art, this exhibition examines the use of film and photography in the representation of urban experience and political protest. On view from October 10, 2012, to January 20, 2013, at the Tate Modern.
Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton presents a two-person exhibition of new works by José Lerma and Eddie Martinez. Both artists use creative material approaches to painting and its history as the starting point for their practice. Inhabited by voracious marks and a motley cast of characters, their works display the political histories of nations imagined and conflicts all too real, through the interplay of their denizens. On view until August 29, 2012 at Halsey McKay Gallery, 79 Newtown Lane East Hampton, NY
Lanvin's amazing Fall/Winter 2012 campaign celebrates individuals with individuality. "Reality... not reality stars." Directed by Steven Meisel.
Photo by Xavier Encinas
Swedish sensation El Perro Del Mar (aka Sarah Assbring) released the first single, Walk On By, off her upcoming album Pale Fire due out this November by The Control Group. Sarah says about the single: "I see it as an hommage to the songs I loved in the early 90’s."
A photograph of Henry Miller's wall in his home on Ocampo Drive in the Pacific Palisades, his last residence, featuring watercolor artworks by Miller and writings by visiting artists and luminaries. photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
A pop-up exhibition and zine release by UK photographer Dan Boulton showing work from his long term project documenting the skateboards at London's notorious rough and ready Southbank. On view for one night, August 24, at Book and Job Gallery, 838 Geary Street, San Francisco.
Music video for Grimes'– AKA Claire Boucher – track Genesis, directed by Boucher herself.
American Sugar, a solo exhibition by J.M. Giordana, takes a confrontational look at America's addiction to sugar, sex, and insulin. Giordino's photographs and sculptures are also aiming to reintroduce "pop" to Balitmore's art scene. American Sugar is on view until August 31, at CA Gallery, 440 E Oliver Street Baltimore, Maryland
William Strobeck's short film featuring Chloë Sevigny and some of her favorite things. Set to the haunting track Fly the Sky by Colony Farm, the film captures Chloë in her element—wearing pieces from the CHLOË SEVIGNY FOR OPENING CEREMONY archive collection.
Detail of a self portrait by Megan McIsaac
On view now at the Albertina, in cooperation with the Museum Folkwang, Essen is dedicating a retrospective to the American photographer Joel Sternfeld showing around 130 works from more than three decades of artistic activity. Joel Sternfeld is among the most important representatives of New Color Photography, which discovered colour for artistic photography in the 1970's. On view until October 7, 2012 at the Albertina, 1010 Vienna, Austria.
