Maison Martin Margiela 1989 Collection
How do you make a documentary about a subject who never shows his face and insists on being interviewed only by fax? When the subject is Martin Margiela and his eponymously named cult label Maison Martin Margiela, the legend alone is enough material. Click here to read our interview with Alison Chernick who has made a short documentary about the mysterious fashion legend, which premiers today on Yoox.
1. Lisa Yuskavage gets dark and seductive at her amazing exhibition on view now at David Zwirner gallery 2. Rosson Crow's Hysteria: Spatial Conversations with Florine Stettheimer is on view at Sargent's Daughter's 3. Elgreen and Dragset Past Tomorrow is on view at Galerie Perrotin 4. Jeppe Hein All We Need Is Inside on view at 303 Gallery 5. Eikoh Hosoe's dark photographs are on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery 6. Nina Leen Lenslady is on view at Daniel Cooney 7. David Shrigley at Anton Kern Gallery 8. Mike Kelley: Pansy Metal/Clovered Hoof at Carolina Nitsch 9. John Giorno Space Forgets You at Elizabeth Dee 10. Peter Saul last chance to see From Pop To Punk at Venus Over Manhattan.
Transgressive queercore director Bruce LaBruce is flying high right now; his first MoMA exhibition opened up last night and Bruce went out to party. The exhibition itself is a monumental achievement; LaBruce may be one of the more extreme artists to ever have work shown at MoMA. Depicting scenes of sexual fetish and paraphillia, BDSM, gang rape, racially-motivated violence, amputee fetishism and more, LaBruce has managed to turn controversy into his own brand of queer celebrating and sex positive art. MoMA itself has compared LaBruce favorably to Robert Altman and Federico Fellini as a true auteur when discussing the choice for the exhibition. So where did LaBruce go out to celebrate his achievement? Nowhere Bar, of course. The infamous gay bar proved to be a perfect setting for LaBruce to party and dance with friends and muses like performance artist Kembra Phahler and writer and nightlife personality Ladyfag , as well as many more adoring friends and fans. One half expects extreme things to be surrounding Bruce at all times, but tonight was actually a mellow night where Bruce drank, hugged friends, danced and basked in the glory. Text and photographs by Adam Lehrer
Chapter Music presents the first ever reissue of wild and outlandish 1970s LA pre-punk icons Smokey. Featuring cameos from James Williamson of the Stooges, Randy Rhoads of Quiet Riot/Ozzy Osbourne and members of the Motels, King Crimson, David Bowie’s Tin Machine, Suburban Lawns and many others, the Smokey story has to be heard to be believed. Read more about Smokey and listen to a track off the reissue here.
In Paris in 1960, at a time when the avant-garde was mourning the death of painting, Simon Hantaï (1922 – 2008) chose not to abandon or destroy the medium but rather to reinvent it. Triggered by Jackson Pollock, Hantaï began by laying his unstretched canvas on the floor. He went on to fold and knot the material before painting its crumpled surface, causing the folded areas to remain unpainted. When unfolded and stretched, the canvas revealed fragmented planes of pure pigment glinting and winking among scattered fields of negative space. Starting April 28th, Mnuchin Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings by Simon Hantaï. Simon Hantaï | Pliage: The First Decade will present a focused look at the 1960s, his first mature decade.
Stockholm’s Gallery Steinsland Berliner presents their latest show curated by Leo Fitzpatrick. Entitled SLAMSECTION, the exhibition brings together some of the artist, curator and actor’s favorite East Coast artists including Dave Sandey of Fuck This Life, the late great Dash Snow, Mark Gonzales and Richard Kern. One of Norway’s most aspiring artists is featured too in the form of Gardar Eine Einarsson, alongside the colorful Eddie Martinez and iconic skateboard photographer, Tobin Yelland. So is the outsider musician Daniel Johnston. SLAMSECTION will be on view until May 16, 2015 at Gallery Steinsland Berliner in Stockholm.
Paris Photo Los Angeles returns to Paramount Pictures Studios where the photographic medium will be celebrated among the famous backlot movie sets, sound stages and classic replica's of New York City storefronts and streets. Here are some of the most exciting, must see solo exhibitions that will be on display: 1. Ren Hang presented by Capricious 88 (Stage 14 - Stand 4) 2. Cole Sternberg presented by MAMA (NYB / Stand H3) 3. David Benjamin Sherry presented by OHWOW (Stage 32 / Stand 15) 4. Guy Bourdin presented by Louise Alexander (Stage 31 / Stand 5) 5. Juergen Teller presented by Suzanne Tarasieve (NYB / Stand G5)
A stage in continuous movement: windows designed by winner Studio Calvi & Brambilla. Exhibit featuring the participating projects of the contest by Interni & Cassina to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the LC Collection, which was on in Milan as part of Salone del Mobile 2015. photographs by Juanco Viso
Honne and tatemae are Japanese words that describe contrast between a person's true feelings and desires and the behavior and opinions one displays in public - we've all been their before. Honne is also the name of London based pop-duo who are due to release their EP 'Coastal Love' on the Tatemae label on May 4th. Today, Honne releases their music video for the EP's namesake track. The music video - directed by Danilo Parra - takes you on a strange and enchanted journey, replete with clandestine exchanges and illicit sea creatures.
Out now from Rizzoli, Chloë Sevigny's new book is a a celebration of the actress and style icon's eclectic and daring personal style. Purchase the book here.
A radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings, 'River of Fundament' is the latest work by world-renowned art visionary Matthew Barney in collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler. Barney and Bepler, who Autre featured in Issue 003, fuse narrative cinema, live performance, sculpture and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of death alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry. Alluring, authentic and intense, this vast, multidimensional experience is interspersed with remarkable live performances filmed over six years. The film’s cast includes Paul Giamatti, Elaine Stritch, Aimee Mullins, Milford Graves and Maggie Gyllenhaal. River of Fundament will be having an exclusive premier on April 25, 2015 at UCLA's Royce Hall. You can purchase tickets here.
Freddy Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Baltimore-based artist, June Culp. There is a compelling psycho-sexual violence embedded in Culp's paintings that is reinforced by the large scale and reductive imagery. The paintings are limited to mostly black-and-white depictions of what the artist describes as everyday preoccupations. These everyday preoccupations include fist-fights and strip clubs. On view until May 2 at Freddy Gallery, 510 West Franklin Street, Baltimore, Maryland
Los Angeles has a fondness for obliterating it's architectural history, by bulldozing old classic motels, hotels, and culturally significant residences, like they did back in January when a real estate developer tore down science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury's home in Cheviot Hills. This time around, the city gave the go ahead to French artist Vincent Lamouroux to completely white wash the classically seedy Sunset Pacific Motel - along with an adjacent billboard and all the surrounding palm trees. Don't worry, no palm trees were hurt in the making of this public art exhibition - the artist used a white lime wash (not paint) that is ecologically sound. You only have a few more weeks to few the project until the lime wash wears away. photograph by Lord Jim
Ethan DeLorenzo gets strange and weird with Father John Misty, Travis Scott, Chris Brown and more during Coachella 2015. photographs by Ethan DeLorenzo
On display on Corso Venezia, Louis Vuitton asked 9 designers to interprate the art of travelling through innovative and luxurious handcrafted objects. The "Objets Nomades" collection was presented in conjunction with the 2015 Salone del Mobile. photographs by Juanco Viso.
Opening night of 'Trust in The You of Now' - an exhibition of photographs and an installation by Los Angeles based artist Lani Trock. 'Trust in The You of Now' will be on view until April 27, at Space 15 Twenty, 520 N Cahuenga Blvd, Los Angeles. photographs by Ethan DeLorenzo
Autre editor and founder Oliver Maxwell Kupper discusses art, independent publishing, Autre, and more in an interview in Forbes. Click here to read.
In his sixth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, British artist David Shrigley presents 78 drawings, two sculptures and one animation. The drawings, ink and acrylic on paper in two distinct sizes, depict a variety of situations involving humans, animals, parts of their bodies and other stuff. The sculptures are of two oversized objects, a subtractor (a calculator with limited function keys), and a working telephone that is hooked up to the gallery’s main phone line. The animation in the back gallery is a drawn and slightly altered version of the Sega arcade game, Out Run. The exhibition will be on view until May 23, 2015. photographs courtesy the artist and Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Aurel Schmidt shows her new series 'New Gods' at an empty apartment on St. Marks Place.
Cool, understated and functional – Norwegian furniture design makes its presence known at the 2015 Salone Del Mobile in Milan. This unique satellite fair offers a bevy of classic and contemporary furniture pieces, crafts accessories presented among unique color coded sections - the colors are chosen to represent the Norwegian mountains, woods and sea. Norwegian Presence is the result of the collaboration between Klubben, Norwegian Crafts and Norwegian Icons and will be on view at the Fuorisalone until April 19, 2015.
