Although she is only 16 years old, Lily-Rose Depp is following in her father's footsteps by starring in the new music video for Dublin rapper Rejjie Snow's single "All Around the World." The Irish rapper says this about the song: "This song is just about love and death, like it's weird 'cause lately it's like I can see everything but only at a distance. This reflects that mood."
"California Fantasy," an exhibition that just ended at New Image Art gallery in Los Angeles, explored "the myth, sparkle, and sensuality that exist within the California environs" and evoked "feelings of psychedelia and euphoria with and aim to awaken a perceived Californian paradise as manifested through vibrant paintings, ethereal drawings, and transcendental sculptures." The group exhibition presented the work of Lola Rose Thompson, Elena Stonaker, Meagan Boyd, Peter Makela, Meegan Barnes, Raul de Nieves, and Mymo. Last week, artists Stonaker and Boyd held a special one night only experimental life drawing class that verged on bohemian, erotic performance art. all photographs by Natalie Yang
What happens in New York definitely doesn't stay in New York thanks to Patrick McMullan. With a career spanning over three decades, McMullan is one of the world’s most celebrated party, fashion, and society photographers on the New York beat. Currently, Salomon Contemporary is presenting Pictures from the Patrick McMullan collection. The eclectic ensemble of over 200 artworks ranges from his own prized photographs, those from renowned photographers David LaChapelle, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Steven Klein, Peter Beard, Harry Benson, Mary Ellen Mark, Todd Eberle, Kelly Klein, Michael Thomson, Roe Etheridge, Jessica Craig-Martin, Scavullo to Salgado to outsider art, Hollywood studio shots, and familiar kitsch. Some were gifts, some were trades, some were purchased from charity auctions, which he often photographed. Each of course has a story and a sentiment. Pictures will be on view until July 31, 2015 at Soloman Contemporary, 525-531 West 26 Street, 4th Floor
Insight Clothing has just dropped their new video, entitled Since Last Time, introducing their Fall 15 range. "The local groms raided our stash and caused some mayhem in the southland. Directed by our superstar homie Ace Norton, this clip will make you break into a mansion, slip some sleeping pills into a steak, feed it to the guard dog and get nude in the pool!" Since Last Time is already gaining acclaim by way of becoming a official selection for Best Fashion in the International Fashion Film Festival before it has even been released.
The results of detailed research from Susana Vargas and art critic Cuauhtémoc Medina, Mujercitos gathers photographs of men dressed as women featured in the periodical Alarma!, known as a nota roja or "red page" newspaper for its bloody content, from the 1960s to the 1980s. This volume collects a selection of key Mexican newsprint tearsheets, with the original layout and typography, each of which represents a mujercito, or "effeminate man," in a highly sexualized, objectified way. Vargas' contextualizing research explores the ways in which these photographs, printed in sensationalistic "true-crime" newspapers, participate in the larger national imaginary of non-normative sexualities in Mexico. In studying these representations of mujercitos, Vargas further traces Anglo-North American theories of gender/sex performativity onto Mexican society, only to discover the multitude of ways in which the relation between gender, sex, sexual orientation and desire is permeated with concerns of race and class in Mexican culture. Click here to buy.
French trio Yelle (pronounced "yell") really hit the scene in 2007 with their track "A cause des garçons" - specifically the version that was remixed by the band's third member Tepr and was featured in the official music music for the track. It starts off with kids pumping up their Reeboks and breaking into the popular dance form known as tecktonik that was so popular in urban culture during that time. This time around, Yelle takes it to a much more surreal level with the video for Ba$$in off their current album Complètement Fou. Directed by Diane Martel, the music video is an assemblage of glitchy, gif-like imagery, which features the singer, Julie Budet, as a disembodied blowup doll and the rest of the band as cartoonish backdrop in a hellish post-Internet landscape. Yelle will be hitting the road for a North American tour - first starting in Canada for in Festival d'Eté de Quebec on July 9 and finishing things off at the Full Moon Fest in New York on August 1. Click here to stay up to date with all of Yelle's tour stops.
Started in 1970 by the late Arles based photographer Lucien Clergue, the writer Michel Tournier and the historian Jean-Maurice Rouquette, Rencontres d'Arles Photography Festival in the South of France has become a preeminent photography festival. The festival is on view now and runs until September. Here are Autre's picks for the must see exhibitions at this year's festival: 1. The Discovery Award honors photographers who deserve to be discovered - one of this year's highlight nominees is Delphine Chanet, who was once a student of legendary fashion photographer Frank Horvat 2. Stephen Shore will be showing off an extensive exhibition of his American backdrops in glorious saturated colors the Espace Van Gogh 3. Eight Japanese photographers will be presented in an exhibition called Another Language at the église Sainte-Anne 4. The Musée Réattu shows off its impressive collection of photography that it has been building over the last 50 years in an exhibition called Daring Photography 5. Check out Guy Bourdin's photography work for Boz Scaggs' album Middle Man and more in an exhibition of album cover photography on view Ateliers des Forges
Seven years ago, a group of kids from the Pigalle area started playing basketball on the Pigalle Duperré court. Since then, they have grown and have become a team. For Pigalle's S/S 2016 show, they presented a short documentary titled “Ensemble” capturing a year of the Pigalle Basketball team and their coaches Stephane Ashpool – Pigalle's founder – and actor Paul Hamy. The projection was followed by the Pigalle Paris fashion show, showcasing a collection worn by each player of the team. Today, it was announced that Pigalle and Stéphane Ashpool is the winner of ANDAM's prestigious Grand Prix Style Award.
Back in 2007, she was Bunny Rabbit – it was the era of scenesters, top eight, Internet party photos, seemingly blind vapidness and a generation of millennials desperately seeking a discernible identity. She sang about taking cocaine anally and smoking marijuana vaginally – with backing beats from trans MC and Coco Rosie beat boxer Black Cracker. Her album “Lovers and Crypts” garnered a lot of attention – Sasha Frere-Jones in a New Yorker article dubbed her “the original art rapper.” Today, she is Bunny Michael – after four years of self-realization and a recent sexual revolution she has found a deeper, more meaningful side to herself as an artist and a person. Her recent series of photographs, which are on view now at Alt Space in Brooklyn, are a testament to her evolution and elevation. The exhibition – entitled “The Etheric Double – is the artist’s first solo show and features portraits of the artist and her “spiritual twin” who is manifest as a higher consciousness and a conduit for “kindness, love and acceptance.” In the following interview, Bunny talks about coming out, sexual revolution and the importance of finding your own spiritual twin. Click here to read the interview.
Kenzo creative directors Carol Lim and Humberto Leon have tapped American independent filmmaker Gregg Araki, one of the leading lights of the New Queer Cinema movement, to write and direct an original short film featuring the brand’s fall collections for men and women. “Here Now” features a cast of young actors including “Glee” alum Jacob Artist, “Suburgatory” star Jane Levy, Grace Victoria Cox, Jake Weary and Canadian actor and singer Avan Jogia. The film also stars Nicole Laliberte, who appeared in Araki’s 2010 film “Kaboom.”
"Problem Is You" is a triumvirate exhibition featuring the work of Aaron Carpenter, Philip Hinge and Brad Phillips on view now until July 11, 2015 at Freddy Biz gallery in Baltimore. You can read more about the exhibition here.
Currently, the Barbican is presenting Doug Aitken’s living exhibition - entitled Station to Station: a 30 Day Happening – with hundreds of free multi arts events taking place over the course of a month with special ticketed events every Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening, bringing artists from the worlds of visual art, music, dance and design together. Here are Autre's selects for must see happenings at Station to Station. 1. J. Spaceman from the iconic shoegaze band Spiritualized performs a psychedelic score to William Eggleston’s iconic 1974 film Stranded in Canton, which documents his encounters with the characters of American’s deep south 2. Follow Nick Cave from morning until night, on his 20,000th day on earth and then stay tuned for a talk with the filmmakers 3. Portland-based musician and multimedia artist EMA takes over the Art Gallery with a fully immersive installation experience 4. Manchester's Julie Campbell AKA LoneLady presents an exclusive performance, featuring a new work created during her Barbican residency, combining wrap-around film-footage, brutalism-inspired beats and synth fragments 5. Alan Vega and Martin Rev, aka Suicide, performing classic material, new work, and collaborations with some famous fans
For her first solo exhibition in Switzerland, Galerie Sébastien Bertrand in Geneva was transformed into a studio/work residency for a few weeks, during which Chloe Wise produced new artworks in the gallery space, creating sculptures and paintings of food (a subject she is already known for) and more precisely, producing works centered around what one might find at a picnic. In this case, Wise's picnic is an erotic and sumptuous one, boasting fake food, where cheese is placed alongside high-end brand logos, jam, models basking in the great outdoors, and nudes in fields, in a gratuitous combination of painting, sculpture and installation. That’s something else, my sweet is taken from E.E. Cummings’ poem If I. The tone of the passage is simultaneously condescending yet affectionate, as though spoken by someone who would console you after having tricked you moments before. Chloe Wise's 'That's Something Else, My Sweet' ends on July 4, 2015 at Galerie Sébastien Bertrand in Geneva. photographs by Annik Wetter.
After her ex-boyfriend, the actor Sam Shepard, gave her a Leica M6 as a gift, she embarked on a photographic journey throughout Mexico and the United States. Last month, Arts Santa Mònica in Barcelona, Spain presented 150 examples of her work. Today, The Eye of Photography published as a fascinating interview with the actress and lenswoman. You can also purchase a monograph of Lange's photographs here. photograph by Ieva Bluma
French duo Papooz release their first music video for the track "Anne Wants To Dance" off their newly released single. The video was shot and directed by Soko in Greece - where she was filming a movie – and stars her girlfriend, Sasha Melnychuk. You can catch Papooz live at Point Ephémère in Paris on July 8, and the Calvi On The Rocks festival on July 6.
To some, she was France’s answer to Patti Smith, or perhaps a 20th century reincarnation of Arthur Rimbaud – or maybe both. To others, she is virtually unknown. But listen to her track “Fire” off her seminal album Press Color, which is seeing a rerelease this summer, and you’ll wonder why you’ve never heard of her. Instead of being France’s answer to Patti Smith, though, Lizzy Mercier Descloux was more of a soul sister; she was also more punk than no wave – punk in the sense of her rebelliousness. You can find Descloux donning a suit next to Smith, who is barefoot and wearing a tattered dress, in a poetry art book that the duo released together – with contributions from Richard Hell. Born Martine-Elisabeth Mercier Descloux in Paris, Lizzy was a bit of a creative anomaly – she introduced world music into her music before there was such a thing. If it wasn’t for her explorations with world music, there is a chance Paul Simon may not have made Graceland. Whatever the case is, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, who died in the early naughts, is still a force to be reckoned with. Click here to read more about this incendiary and prodigious artist.
You either have to be extremely bold, or be on the same record label, to call the legendary Italian record producer Giorgio Moroder, known to the younger generation for his recent collaboration with Daft Punk, and known to the older generation for his soundtracks to films such as “American Gigolo” and “Scar Face.” For Elizabeth Harper, otherwise known as Class Actress, she is both bold and on the same label – Casablanca Records – that Moroder has been making disco hits for, such as Donna Summer’s I Feel Love, since the 70s. Back in 2012, we interviewed Elizabeth Harper where she presciently mentions her wish to take her work into a more cinematic realm, which is fitting: her new album (which is out now) is called “Movies” and is more cinematic than ever, especially with Moroder on board. Click here to read the full interview.
Photographer Elliott Landy, who is perhaps best known for his portraits of some of the most towering gods of Rock n’ Roll like Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, and Jim Morrison, has a powerful way of capturing an ethereal glamour in his photos. He doesn’t focus on glitz or color. Instead, his photos, often in black and white, have the power to realize their subjects as something akin to mystical. The rock gods and mega-celebrities in Landy’s photos often resemble pseudo deities, but in no way does this extreme aura hinder upon the humanity of the subjects. Instead, it is the viewer’s projection that elevates the subjects into something extra-human, and the subjects then appear trapped by the viewer’s own elevated expectations of who and what the subject should be. This unique photographic dichotomy is captured beautifully in the black and white photographs found in Landy’s new Imperial Pictures published book Opening Night. The book exemplifies Landy’s best work in capturing the complexities attached to fame. The book doesn’t focus on rock stars, but instead captures celebrities like Lauren Bacall, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Harris, and more as well as the crowds of people that idolized and mobbed them. The photos both glamorize celebrity while sharply criticizing our obsessions with it. The message of these photos is more relevant than ever,” writes Landy in the book’s opening, “That we, as a society, pay more attention to physical glamour and fame than to wisdom.” It was superbly fitting then that to celebrate the release of the book, Landy got his own star treatment as a courtesy of a party thrown in his honor at the Jane Hotel by Paperwork NYC. With modern dance and pop tunes spliced in with vintage soul courtesy of PJ Monte, Landy found himself surrounded by fans, downtown NYC mainstays like Cat Marnell, and his oldest and dearest friends to celebrate this beautiful collection of his work. Landy has very unique warmth. When I approached him, I tried to relate via my love of Van Morrison’s records Astral Weeks and Veedon Fleece that pulled me out of some heartbreak after I got dumped by a girlfriend in college. “Van’s music has that ability to lift up your spirits,” said Landy. He then signed my book, “Dear Adam, many moondances to you—Elliot Landy.” I was touched. Even people that just happened to be partying at the Jane picked up copies of the book and had them signed by Landy. Landy treated them all the same. It is that generosity and empathy that has allowed Landy to create such magnetic emotion in these pictures. Text and photographs by Adam Lehrer
Our newest editorial comes all the way from Sydney, Australia – from one of our favorite photographers: Elvis DiFazio. The fashion editorial features DiFazio’s “latest muse,” the voluptuous Aussie model Amy-Jane Brand in a vintage themed ten pin bowling alley – it’s an ideal setting because this pink haired beauty is a perfect ten. DiFazio describes brand as a “modern day cross of a Russ Meyers actress and a Vargas pin up girl.” The editorial comes from the fourth campaign the photographer has shot for Wheels and Dollbaby – for their capsule collection, entitled Inky Pinky, which is a creative collaboration between designer Melanie Greensmith and Perth based tattoo artist Jack McAuliffe. The capsule collection will be available starting July 3, 2015 at the Wheels and Dollbaby website. Click here to see the full editorial.
For "Crown Victorious," an exhibition on view now at Martos Gallery In New York, tattoo artist Scott Campbell decks out a Ford Crown Victoria police car with 24-carat-gold body paint - the windows are also etched. The exhibition will be on display until July 25, 2015 at Martos Gallery, 540 W 29th St New York.
