Autre Issue 3 Launch @ Ace Hotel in Los Angeles Part One

Autre Issue 3 launch party at Ace Hotel with MAMA gallery. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Devendra Banhart Interviews John Baldessari for Issue 3

ISSUE 3 features ‪John Baldessari‬, Devendra Banhart, Adam Tullie, Luckey Lisp, Lola Rose Thompson, Shelby Duncan, Soko, Ry X, ‎Jonathan Bepler‬, ‎Joe Mckee‬, Cole Sternberg, James Georgopoulos

Soko Plays Ariel Pink In New Music Video for 'Lovetrap'

Soko presents her new music video for "Lovetrap feat. Ariel Pink". In addition to her roles as director and producer, Soko stars as both herself and Pink in the video. 

Joyce Pensato 'Castaway' @ Petzel Gallery in New York

Petzel Gallery presents Castaway, a solo exhibition by New York based artist Joyce Pensato. This is her fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. For this exhibition, Pensato will present a new series of paintings and drawings, as well as premiere digital c-prints of her studio taken by the artist and predominantly comprised of collages on her studio walls. Castaway will be on view until March 28 at Petzel Gallery. 

John Baldessari and Devendra Banhart for Autre Issue Three

Autre is excited to announce its collaboration with MAMA Gallery and Ace Hotel to present Autre Issue Three: The No More Boring Art Issue featuring a unique interview/conversation between godfather of conceptual art John Baldessari and freaky funky folk hero Devendra Banhart. There will also be interviews/features with Soko, Jonathan Bepler, James Georgopolous and More. Click here to preorder or sign up for the newsletter to find a copy. photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Niagra Premiers Avant-Psych-Tronica Video for 'ELSE'

Niagara is the collaborative project of artists/producers David Tomat (TOMAT / N.A.M.B./ GEMINI EXCERPT) and Gabriele Ottino (N.A.M.B. / Milena Lovesick / GEMINI EXCERPT), whose off-kilter take on pop incorporates elements of electronic, psychedelic, Eastern and dance music to create their own brand of 'avant-psych-tronica'."Else What Else?" is the second single from Turin-based experimental pop duo Niagara's second album, Don't Take It Personally.

Petra Collins Group Show On View @ SFAQ in San Francisco

Petra Collins 'Pill Pots' (Collaboration with Group Partner) 

The SFAQ [Project] Space presents Comforter, a group exhibition curated by Petra Collins featuring work by Carlotta Kohl, T.V. Wade, Claire Milbrath, Nguan, and Petra Collins. Comforter explores the binaries of home/transience and sanctuary/chaos, and how we experience these dualities in contemporary life. Comforter will be on view until April 11, 2015 at the SFAQ [Project] Space in San Francisco. 

Paul Kasmin Gallery's Booth at TEFAF Maastricht, Netherlands

For this year's TEFAF (The European Fine Art Fair) Maastricht, Paul Kasmin Gallery has partnered with longtime gallery artist Bonetti for a site-specific installation made of reclaimed wood from Switzerland that continues his exploration of the dichotomy between contemporary art and design, nature and craft. The gallery is showcasing beautiful works by 20th century modernist masters, such as Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol,  Sigmar Polke, Soutine and more. TEFAF will run from March 13 to the 22nd in Maastricht, Netherlands. photograph by Pieter de Vries, Courtesy of Paul Kasmin Gallery

Lola Rose Thompson 'Spells For Improving Your Sex Life' @ Last

Los Angeles based artist Lola Rose Thompson refracts the beguiling and sordid lights of Hollywood in her solo show at LAST Projects, comprising new paintings, drawings, sculpture and neon art. The opening of the exhibition also featured a psychedelic black light performance by Jena Malone. Through profuse and feverish figurations she limns memory, sex, new age aphorisms and and the entertainment industrial complex, offering up highly specific, short narratives in her titles, leaving one to wonder if she's actually playing the long con. Lola Rose Thompson 'Spells For Improving Your Sex Life' will be on view until March 28, 2015. photographs by Ethan DeLorenzo 

Petite Noir's Official Music Video for 'The Fall'

Capetown based Yannick Iluga, otherwise known at Petite Noir, calls his music 'noirwave.' Born to a Congolese father and Angolan mother, Iluga has been making his unclassifiable, joyous music in various iterations for a number of years now. See the new music for the track 'The Fall' - off the current album The King Of Anxiety (Domino). The video is inspired by the work of Serbian artist Marina Abramovic, and in particular her ‘The Artist is Present’ performance art piece (MoMa 2010). 

Paul McCarthy Designs Limited Edition Skatedecks

Paul McCarthy borrows from his series PROPO to design a series of skatedecks. Through this collection, The Skateroom and Paul McCarthy aim to entirely finance the building of Skateistan’s first skate school on the African continent, in central Johannesburg. The innovative facility will use “the hook” of skateboarding to connect vulnerable youth to educational and leadership opportunities. The vision is for Skateistan, South Africa’s skate school to serve as a regional training hub for skateboard-based, youth-development projects. Each deck is hand-numbered, signed and limited to 250 units. Click here to get pick up your own deck and support this amazing project. photograph by Damon McCarthy

A Visit to Enoc Perez's Studio In New York

Last week, we had the rare and delightful opportunity to visit the studio of Enoc Perez in mid-town Manhattan. The Puerto Rican-born, New York-based artist was raised under the unique tutelage of an art critic and was exposed to culture and the arts at an early age, which explains not only his practice, but also his intense love for art and it’s romantic history. Indeed, Perez has an almost poetic view of art and his own art – there is a pervading idea that perhaps what we see on the outside is really what’s most important. This explains his works depicting iconic architectural structures, which are created using a unique printmaking process. It also explains his sculptural pieces, which are created using swizzle sticks from tropical resorts as inspiration. It also explains why, in the late 1980s, when he first started practicing, his peers dismissed his art as too sexy, too cool, and too seductive. You can almost hear a Walter Wanderly soundtrack as you look at some of his work. Today, Perez’s work can be found in the permanent collections of major institutions – from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Whitney. In May, Perez will be showing some of his newer photographic pieces alongside the work of Saul Steinberg at Danziger Gallery. When we visited his studio, there were a number of paintings in the works that recalled Picasso’s cubist muses, but with a unique postmodern twist. Instead of finding his muses on the streets of Paris, Perez’s muses are found in the tiny square windows of Instagram – just imagine Dora Maar with a Slasher skateboard magazine t-shirt on. As he showed me around, we talked about architecture, artistic process, Bob Dylan’s song lyrics, enlightenment, the zeitgeist and, of course, swizzle sticks. Photographs and text by Oliver Maxwell Kupper