'Lick' Shirts by Skye Nicolas

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New York based artist Skye Nicolas is to release a limited edition t-shirt called 'Lick' which is a play on people's perceptions and personal prejudices as a result of overexposure to a hyper-media culture that uses female objectification and sexually charged imagery in contemporary advertising. The pretty girl in the shirt graphic is simply eating an ice cream cone. But due to the way the photo is cropped, distorts how people evaluate the image. Only 100 t-shirts will be available starting on November 17, but you can pre-order now.

The InstaPaper Digital Turns Physical

The InstaPaper is the first in a series of edits looking to celebrate this unique moment in time and mark the beginning of a new era in "Instant" photography. Its aim is to document this "instant" visual movement by turning it into a collectable, desirable physical presence – in essence turning the transient and ephemeral into something more permanent. In a limited edition of 150 stencil printed copies, edited by Francisco Salvado, The Instapaper includes artists Pierre Debusschere, Marcelo Burlon, Pandoras Jukebox and more.

Shelter Serra Engine Blocks Opening @ Helmut Lang

Artist Shelter Serra (nephew of sculptor Richard Serra) stands in front of one his "Engine Blocks" installations at the Helmut Lang store in Los Angeles as part of his collaboration with the fashion label and online shop and gallery Grey Area. Serra's Engine Blocks along with other gift items curated by Grey Area will available a various Helmut Lang stores until January 17. photograph by F. Duke

Wes Lang x Bamford Watch Department

Dover Street Market presents the exclusive launch of a collaboration between Bamford Watch Department and Brooklyn-based artist Wes Lang. Together they have created 5 limited edition re-worked watches, all individually etched with the signature artwork of Wes Lang. Known for his love of motorcycle culture and its accompanying iconography, they feature classic biker motifs including skulls and roses, bird studies and sickle wielding reapers. Each watch comes in its own bespoke wooden box complete with a unique piece of Wes Lang art work inside.

Ryan Johnson Self Storage At Suzanne Geiss Company

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Self Storage, Ryan Johnson's first exhibition with The Suzanne Geiss Company, features a structured installation of representational sculptures made from a variety of materials including wood, medical casting tape and sheet metal. Presented as a fictional self-storage unit, Johnson aims to blur the distinctions between the real and the imagined by conjuring a hallucinatory space where anxieties become materialized as furniture, multi-tasking figures sprout extra limbs and bicycles steer their riders. Informed by a sense of precarity and ambient instability, Johnson's sculptures foreground the liminal nature of storage, focusing on themes of transition and fundamental life decisions about relationships, work, and family. Self Storage will be on view until December 15, 2012 at The Suzanne Geiss Company, 75 Grand Street, New York, New York

Agathe Snow Tout Dit (2D) at OHWOW

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Tout Dit (2D) is Agathe Snow’s first solo exhibition with OHWOW Gallery. Presenting a new body of work, Snow reveals a series of vivid wall reliefs, which are directly concerned with space and perspective. Using recognizable imagery – an archetypal vocabulary of shapes and objects – Snow articulates hypothetical events, scenarios, and conditions through groupings of these various items. Agathe Snow Tout Dit (2D) will be on view until December 8, 2012 at OHWOW Gallery, 937 North La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA

Nate Lowman Exhibition At The Brant Foundation

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Allison Brant, Nate Lowman, and Peter Brant standing in from of OJ Simpson's famous Ford Bronco at the opening of Nate Lowman's new exhibition of works, entitled I Wanted To Be An Artist, But All I Got Was This Lousy Career, on view now by appointment only at The Peter Brant Foundation, 941, North Street, Greenwich CT.

Jeff Koons Tulips Outside of Christies in New York

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Jeff Koons stands in from his Tulips sculpture in front of Christie's at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. Tulips is the most complex and colorful sculpture of the artist's Celebration series. The five meter bouquet of seven polychrome tulips will be on view at Christie’s 20 Rockefeller until tonights evening sale - Tulips is estimated to bring in 20-30 million dollars.

[MUST LISTEN] Jessica Pratt

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White Fence's Tim Presley started Birth Records with sole intention of recording neo-folk songtress and Jessica Prattwho is based in San Francisco. Her music is mysterious and haunting and sounds like it's from another time. Presley says about Pratt, "Jessica Pratt's music feels like I have found a lost LP of an old forgotten mystical folk singer, that feeling of discovering a record all by myself: Without the help of friends or the Internet. Like Stevie Nicks singing over David Crosby demos, with the intimacy of a Sibylle Baier." Jessica Pratt's self titled album, which might be the best record of the year, is now available on vinyl and digital. Hear our favorite track below called Titles Under Pressures.

[FASHION FILM] Valérie Ciriadès "Indochine"

Indochine, a fashion film for Belgian, Brazilian designer Valérie Ciriadès' Spring Summer 2013 Indochine Collection inspired by the designer's trip to Cambodia, is a homage to Marguerite Duras, L'Amant, and Jean-Jacques Annaud's movie with the same name. It tells us the story of a beautiful french woman that falls in love with an Asian man in a hot Cambodian summer. The story is told with the help of a music, especially composed for the film, and interpreted by Brazilian Top Model Michelli Provensi, that also stars in the film as "The Lady." Indochine -the music and the film- was written and directed by Luigi Dias, Valérie's husband. 

[FASHION FILM] Schizolog for Jau Label

Schizolog is the amazingly bonkers fashion film for East London based Jau Label's Spring Summer 2013 collection in collaboration with VVVintage. Jau Label's Spring Summer 2013 collection is called νέον or Neon (Greek νέον (neon) meaning "new one"). Designer Jessica Au's recent infatuation with Die Antwoord's "Zef Style" and the wave of neo-trash movement set her mind to work on her first womenswear and menswear collection that would focus on merging Japanese street style with stripper influences such as Brooke Candy. Jessica Au is quickly making a name for herself with her label which completely sold out at Somerset House London Fashion Week 2012 and has in the past year been house in Japan's Teknopolice alongside massive underground labels. The film is directed by Rob Heppell and stars model Pia Denker who after finding a magic box, is thrown through a series of visual worlds, each fitting with a different outfit. Pia strives through encounters with monsters and clones, will she ever find her way home? 

Marc Newson Book Launch @ The Taschen Store in New York

Legendary Australian industrial designer Marc Newson signs copies of his new book Marc Newson: Works, a catalogue of all his works to date, at the Taschen Store in New York. Marc Newson: Works is available now on Taschen. Photography by Annabel Graham  for Pas Un Autre.

Photography New Works at Galleria Carla Sozzani

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Photography New Works is on view now at Galleria Carla Sozzani in Milan and  brings together some of the most prominent photographers in fine art and fashion, under a common theme, and provides visitors with an unprecedented opportunity to experience the very latest, cutting-edge photographic expressions. Photography New Works includes new works by William Eggleston, Stephen Shore, Nan Goldin, Martin Parr, Terry Richardson and Ryan McGinley. Photography New Works will be on view until November 18, at Galleria Carla Sozzani, Corso Como, 10, 20154 Milan, Italy

Richard Prince White Paintings at Skarstedt Gallery

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Skarstedt Gallery presents the White Paintings by Richard Prince comprising ten paintings from the series executed during the early 1990s. Prince’s White Paintings are raw and energetic in comparison to his more straightforward “re-photographs” of the 1970s and the Monochromatic Jokes of the 1980s. In the White Paintings, handwritten and printed jokes mingle with gestural marks, silkscreened imagery, and graphic fragments all strewn across a white-pigmented backdrop. White Paintings will be on view until December 15, 2012 at Skarstedt Gallery, 20 E 79th St, New York, NY 

Jules De Balincourt Ecstatic Contact at Salon 94 Bowery

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Salon 94 Bowery features Jules de Balincourt’s first solo show with the gallery, Ecstatic Contact, comprised of 6 new large-scale paintings. Known for his abstract and figurative paintings of utopian, dystopian and marginalized communities as well as American politics, de Balincourt breaks new ground in an exploration of collective global anxieties. In his studio, de Balincourt simultaneously paints up to 10 works. Without preparatory drawings, he intuitively moves from painting to painting, allowing one to influence the next. This new body of work addresses the uncertainties of contemporary human life. Ecstatic Contact will be on view until January 13, 2012 at Salon 94, 243 Bowery, New York, NY.