Antonio's World: Sex, Art & Disco

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Antonio’s World, a survey of the work of Antonio Lopez (1943-1987) is open now at The Suzanne Geiss Company. The exhibition will showcase three decades of the artist’s polymathic creative output, including never before seen drawings, photographs, and ephemera. Lopez’s seminal works, which adorned the pages of Vogue, The New York Times, Women’s Wear Daily, and Interview throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s, remain a powerful source of inspiration; galvanizing contemporary visual culture.Beginning in the 1960’s, Lopez redefined fashion imagery with his portrayal of the “Antonio Girls,” comprised most notably of Pat Cleveland, Jane Forth, Jerry Hall, Grace Jones, and Jessica Lange. His infectiously charismatic persona and Pygmalion’s eye for raw beauty led Antonio, and the equally magnetic art director, Juan Ramos, to discover and transform these aspiring models into paragons of glamour. The first complete Antonio Lopez monograph, Antonio Lopez: Fashion, Art, Sex, and Disco, will be released by Rizzoli New York in conjunction with the exhibition. Antonio's World will be on view until October 20th, 2012 at The Suzanne Geiss Company, 76 Grand Street, New York. 

Karen Kilimnik & Kim Gordon at 303 Gallery

303 Gallery presents it's eleventh exhibition of work by Karen Kilimnik, and first two-person show with Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth. For this show, both Kilimnik and Gordon will present video installations addressing the nature of performance, its definition and its influence. On view until September 29 at 303 Gallery, 547 W 21st Street, New York, NY

JOHN MILLER: The Petrified Forest

Praz-Delavallade presents The Petrified Forest, a new exhibition by John Miller. John Miller has produced a varied œuvre that includes painting, sculpture, photography and video. With empathy, humor, and insightful observation, Miller plunges into the maelstrom of everyday life to distill the commonplace and the normal. While a lot of Miller’s previous works had to do with the interrogation of value in a capitalist society and the disparities between the price and the meaning of something, his more recent projects offer at once critical and poetic representations of emotional affect, its relationship to bio-power and its impact on individuals. The Petrified Forest is on view until October 11, 2012 at Praz-Delavallade Gallery, 5, Rue Des Haudriettes, 75003, Paris.

[PHOTOS] Billy Kidd Shot Heather Huey at Clic Gallery

On view now at Clic Gallery, Heather Huey Was Shot By Billy Kidd is a collaborative photographic project between Billy Kidd and his girlfriend haute milliner Heather Huey. The series features a series of nude black and white photographs by Kidd of Huey in some of her creations which include body cages, hats, and other accessories. Billy Kidd Shot Heather Huey is on view at Clic Gallery, 255 Centre Street, New York, until September 30, 2012. photography by Annabel Graham for Pas Un Autre

Pamela Love Pop Up Tattoo Parlor During Fashion Week

As part of her Made Fashion Week presentation, Jewelry designer Pamela Love hosted the Pamela Love Tattoo Parlor at Milk Studio's Milk Bar. Throughout the weekend, tattoo artists Minka Sicklinger and Patrick "Fish" King set up shop and took appointments. photography by Annabel Graham for Pas Un Autre

NEW NO DARK WAVE at Costume National

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For one month beginning September 10, Costume National store in New York will be transformed into a mini-gallery for an exhibition called New No Dark Wave, named after their Fall collection, featuring artists Aaron Young, the late Tobias Wong, and James Franco who will be showing short films in the changing rooms and a photo series called New Film Stills based on Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills. New No Dark Wave will be on view September 10 to Octobert 10, Costume National, 150 Greene St, NYC

Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years

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Hiding behind a logo and name with the word corporation in it, Bernadette Van-Huy, John Kelsey and Antek Walczak, who make up the quasi-subversive art collection Bernadette Corporation have since the mid-90s been running an underground fashion label, creating films, and publishing a magazine. In the summer of 2001, the collective temporarily merged with Le Parti Imaginaire, a faction of post-Situationist militants and intellectuals with links to the burgeoning antiglobalization movement to participate in the riots of the g8 summit. “We call ourselves a corporation because corporations are everywhere, and it impresses people … pretending we are businesspeople while we sleep all day like cats," says the collective. On view this month at the Artist Space in New York, Bernadette Corporation is having its first major retrospective. Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years will on view from September 9 to December 16, 2012, at Artist Space, 38 Greene Street, New York

Scott Shuman, The Sartorialist, Opening at Danziger Gallery

In many ways Schuman can be seen as the first "true" photographer of the digital age. His pictures are shot digitally, disseminated digitally, commented on digitally, and printed digitally. Keenly sought to lecture, shoot, exhibit, and attend the front row of fashion shows around the world, none of this would have happened before the internet. To celebrate the September publication of Schuman's second Penguin book, The Sartorialist: Closer, Danziger Gallery will be mounting a two week exhibition concurrent with New York's Fashion Week. The Sartorialist will be on view from September 7 to September 15, 2012, at Danziger Gallery, 527, West 21st Street, New York