Carmen Villain Shares Hypnotic, Tai Chi Inspired Video for her Track 'Quietly'

Carmen Villain (born Hillestad) follows the release of her recent single, “Quietly,” with a new video directed by photographer Adina Fohlin. The video was filmed in Stockholm and features Linnea Martinsson’s interpretative dance of Tai Chi. As described by Hillestad, "I wanted the visuals for the song to feature movement, and I've been obsessed with looking at films of people doing Tai Chi. There’s something very powerful and vulnerable about it -- the idea of getting through difficult things in life slowly, one breath at a time." The Quietly/Let Go 7” is out now via Smalltown Supersound.

'Fassbinder – NOW' @ Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin

The Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, presents the exhibition “Fassbinder – NOW” in nine rooms at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin to mark Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 70th birthday on 31st May. The presentation provides a new impetus to engage with one of the most significant German directors. The exhibition illustrates not only the film-maker's working methods, but also the coherence of his work in the cinema and its influence on the art being produced today. The exhibition thus takes in a dual perspective: both historical and contemporary. It traces the aesthetic, political and media contexts that distance our present from Fassbinder's time while simultaneously linking to it. Fassbinder – NOW will be on view until August 23rd, 2015 at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Niederkirchnerstraße 7, 10963 Berlin, Germany

'America Is Hard To See' Inaugural Exhibition @ The New Whitney Museum Location In New York

Drawn entirely from the Whitney Museum of American Art’s collection, America Is Hard to See takes the inauguration of the Museum’s new building as an opportunity to reexamine the history of art in the United States from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. Comprising more than six hundred works, the exhibition elaborates the themes, ideas, beliefs, and passions that have galvanized American artists in their struggle to work within and against established conventions, often directly engaging their political and social contexts. Numerous pieces that have rarely, if ever, been shown appear alongside beloved icons in a conscious effort to unsettle assumptions about the American art canon. America Is Hard to See will be on view until September 2015 at the Whitney Museum, 99 Gansevoort Street, New York. 

Highlights from the 2015 NADA Art Fair At Basketball City In New York

photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Read Max Barrie's Humorously Dark Riff on Suicide and the Meaning of Life and Death →

Writer Max Barrie waxes poetic in a darkly humorous riff on suicide and depression - with a few tragic stories thrown in the mix - in the new installment of his non-fiction short story series A Trendy Tragedy. Read the full text here. 

Black Lives Matter: See Our Photographic Essay of the Freddie Gray Protests in New York City →

After news emerged that Freddie Gray, Jr. had broken his spine and died while in the custody of police officers – a literal straw that broke the camel's back after countless public deaths of unarmed black men and women at the hands of authorities – riots and protests erupted in Baltimore; it soon spread to New York City. Mike Krim of subversive, cult publishing imprint Paperwork NYC and model Alex Papa grabbed their cameras and found themselves in the center of the action. "Alex Papa and I decided to grab some film and join in. Not knowing what to expect, we jumped in the crowd and started taking photos. That lasted roughly twenty minutes until we found ourselves chanting "No Justice No Peace Fuck The Police" and fully engaged in the protest, which took over city blocks and highways. As voices echoed loudly, we ran to fill in gaps, walking interlinked to shut down intersections, and marched forward. At times losing people to small pockets of raw emotion that took place. I'm not sure what the exact term of "peaceful assembly" is but I feel it was accomplished last night. Was anything achieved besides screwing up all the traffic in NYC? I'm not sure. I will tell you one thing, though, it felt fucking awesome approaching Times Square with that many people and taking over what some call the center of the universe." Click here to see the full photographic essay. 

6 Booths You Have to Visit On The Last Day of the 2015 NADA Art Fair

1. See Elizabeth Jaeger's awkwardly beautiful sculpture - entitled "Maybe We Die so the Love Doesn't Have To," 2015 at Jack Hanley Gallery (Booth 2.30) 2. See artist Janson Stegner's erotic and sinuously lengthened portraits of cheerleaders and female cops at the Sorry We're Closed booth 3. Like Fragonard on too many tabs of acid, see Irish painter Genieve Figgis's works on view at the Half Gallery booth (404) 4. See artist Betty Tompkins' pussies, pearls and penises on view at the Louis B. James gallery booth (booth 2.26) 5. Perhaps the most exciting and thrilling booth belongs to the Oslo, Norway based gallery Rod Bianco with a solo presentation of work by artist Vaginal Davis, entitled “Flirtation Walk (The Ho Stroll)," which explores homosexuality and male prostitution through a long prose poem that is juxtaposed against hunks of Hollywood's golden era 6. Wall sculptures by artist Sara Rahbar combines religion's sanctifying iconography and man's tools of trade - shovels, rifle butts and crucifixes – in primitive, neo-Dadaist assemblages on view at the Carbon 12 booth. The 2015 NADA Art Fair will be on view until May 17, 2015 at at Basketball City, located at 299 South Street on the East River.

Sean Knibb Presents Gorgeous Carrara Marble Tables At ICFF, Read Our Exclusive Interview With the Designer →

Designer Sean Knibb (Knibb Design) - known for decking out the The LINE Hotel in Los Angeles - creates unique Carrara marble tables with t-shirts and jean shorts meticulously carved into the marble surface - the process takes over 700 hours by highly skilled Italian artisans. The series of functional tables will be presented ICFF in New York. Read our exclusive interview with Knibb here. 

Read Bruce Licher's Remembrance of An Amazing Adventure In Calexico with the Late Chris Burden →

photograph by Bruce Licher

Chris Burden, who passed away a few days ago at his home in Topanga Canyon, California at the age of 69, was known for his performance art pieces that bordered on terrorism, like the time he took a pistol and fired several shots at a passenger airline taking off from LAX. In another piece, entitled Coals to Newcastle, which is a British idiom for doing something stupid or pointless, Burden sent a toy rubber-band model airplane with marijuana strapped to it over the border into Mexico. In the following eulogy of the late groundbreaking artist, Bruce Licher - a former student and founder of the LA post-punk band Savage Republic - describes his adventure in Calexico with Burden during the preparation and making of Coals to Newcastle. Read the whole story here. 

Angela Bulloch 'New Wave Digits' @ Simon Lee Gallery In London

Simon Lee Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new sculptures by acclaimed artist Angela Bulloch. Stacked columns of polyhedra, formed in steel, corian or MDF, populate the gallery space. Conceived and designed within a digital imaging program, this new body of sculptures, with their stylized geometry, electronic glow and manufactured surface sheen, might seem to channel New Wave Science Fiction - a genre typified by its imaginative, futuristic and often inaccurate notions of science and technology. Just as that genre’s writers accelerated the age’s visions of modernism, these geometric stacks suggest Brancusi’s Endless Column as if refracted through vector graphics, reinforcing a sense of ‘retro-futurity’. The temporality is confusing. Today, when much sculpture seems to be looking back toward the purity of minimalism, these works seem to refer to a later moment, when culture took imaginative leaps forward, postulating a world of stark angles and sawtooth synthesizers. Angela Bulloch 'New Wave Digits' will be on view until May 30th at Simon Lee Gallery in London. 

Harper Levine of Harper's Books At His Anti-Fair Pop-Up At the Carlyle Hotel In New York

Harper Levine of Harper's Books at his Anti-Fair Pop-Up, which takes up a double room suite at the Carlyle Hotel. Get your hands on beautiful rare art books, art by the likes of Eric Brown and Brad Phillips, and other ephemera. On view until Friday, May 15 at the Carlyle Hotel in New York. photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Part Two: Highlights from the Private Opening of Frieze Art Fair New York 2015

Autre made its way to Randall's Island Park to see the Private View opening of Frieze Art Fair New York 2015, situated on the chilly banks of the Harlem River and it was more than worth it. Some standouts from Part Two of our coverage include a few of the international booths, like Sultana Paris' solo exhibition of Swiss artist Walter Pfeiffer and São Paulo based gallery Casa Triangulo's solo presentation of works by Eduardo Berliner. Then there are the classics, like Cheim & Read, that had a brilliant large scale portrait on display of Little Richard by the artist Jack Pierson, who is known for his text based work using neon lettering from discarded signage. SEE PART ONE HERE. The Frieze Art Fair New York will run until May 17th, 2015. text and photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper 

Part One: Highlights from the Private Opening of Frieze Art Fair New York 2015

Autre made its way to Randall's Island Park to see the Private View opening of Frieze Art Fair New York 2015, situated on the chilly banks of the Harlem River and it was more than worth it. Some standouts from Part One of our coverage includes British Gallery Payne Shurvel's display of artist radical feminist artist Margaret Harrison and a slightly disturbing piece by artist Patrick Walsh, a.k.a JPW3, which involves a cluster of metal chains being dipped in wax over and over again - presented by Los Angeles based Night Gallery. SEE PART TWO HERE. The Frieze Art Fair New York will run until May 17th, 2015. text and photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper 

Artist Bjarne Melgaard on His Upcoming Show 'Daddies Like You Don't Grow On Palm Trees' @ Sammlung Friedrichshof

We here at Autre have a bit of fascination with New York based, Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard. His art is brutal, poignant, poetic and always adventurous. After his controversial show at the Munch Museum in Oslo - entitled 'Melgaard & Munch: The End Of It All Has Already Happened' - Melgaard is paying a strange homage to Viennese Actionist Otto Muehl. The show, entitled 'Daddies Like You Don't Grow On Palm Trees,' also explores his relationship with his lover, who is nearly 30 years his junior. Here is what Melgaard says about his upcoming exhibition, "This show is about the failure and synthesis of a sculpture I made some 15 years ago called Light Bulb Man.The genesis of the show was to take that sculpture and simply wash it out into new models of materialization, mixed together with several collaborations as random references to my fashion collection about disappointment and the pleasure attendant to that whole concept. All the fabrics in the exhibition have been designed by Babak Radboy of SHANZHAI BIENNIAL, specifically incorporating images of my boyfriend, David Oramas, me and of Light Bulb Man.The fabrics then were given to the designers to dress nine new sculptures that are remakes of the Light Bulb Man. The show also clearly references MDMT and LSD as a significant inspiration for the show and looks at the healing aspect of these substances and how they can open up consciousness and how psychedelics can be, if one is open to it, a tool to enter your inner core. The "Bad Daddy" aspect of the show takes into consideration and contextualizes the fact that I am 48 and my lover is 21 and with all the different mechanics inherent in that attraction. It’s also a show based on seduction and intrigue along matters of age and time, themes that were fundamental to the original Light Bulb Man. The balance of the show will feature an improvised pop-up shop, soundtracks, and new paintings that will infiltrate the permanent collection of the Sammlung Friedrichshof." Daddies Like You Don't Grow On Palm Trees will be on view from May 16 to November 30, 2015 at Sammlung Friedrichshof, Zurndorf. 

See Our New Editorial by Raquel Pellicano Shot In An Architectural Gem in Brasília →

Located in the Brazilian Highlands - Brasília was developed by urban planners and architects Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer in 1956 in order to move the capital from Rio de Janeiro to a more centralized located. Downtown proper is filled brilliant examples of midcentury splendor and some of the greatest masterpieces belonging to Costa and Niemeyer - along with landscapes by Roberto Burle Marx. In the this editorial, shot in one of the beautiful modernist homes in the suburbs by photographer Raquel Pellicano, the model's beauty is matched perfectly against the beauty of the architecture with its steel, wood and concrete accents. Click here to see the full editorial.