LAXArts presents an exhibition of work by Melanie Schiff (a series of photographs entitled Pains), Zoe Crosher (from her LA-Like: Prospecting Palm Fronds series), a sculpture installation of Vessels by Galia Linn and a modular wall sculpture by Mark Hagan. These exhibitions will be on view until October 24 at LAXArt, 7000 Santa Monica Blvd. Hollywood, C. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Night Gallery presents present its first exhibition “In Reality” with LA based artist Yuh-Shioh Wong. Through her intrinsic understanding of the natural world, Wong’s paintings communicate the inherent structure of things- through shape, color, and lineand how they connect to one another and to human experience. Yuh-Shioh Wong "In Reality" will be on view until October 12 at Night Gallery, 2276 E. 16th Street, Los Angeles.
Deerhunter have shared a new track 'Breaker', the second to be aired from their forthcoming new album Fading Frontier, out October 16th via 4AD. 'Breaker' finds two of Deerhunter's founding members, Bradford Cox and Lockett Pundt, sharing vocal duties in their first ever duet. The track follows the premiere of the intoxicating garage funk of 'Snakeskin' last month. Directed by Bradford Cox (additional photography from Lockett Pundt), the luminous 'Breaker' video stars Cox and Pundt alongside Deerhunter members Moses Archuleta and Josh McKay. Click here to preorder.
The first time I met Patrick Matamoros, we decided to drive to Malibu – to John Frusciante’s house – to shoot a wet t-shirt contest fashion editorial with some of his incredible vintage tees. He had just come in from New York where he would sell his tees either on the street or in pop up shops throughout the city – and often got arrested for not having a merchant’s license. There were original Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm Mclaren seditionary tees with Minnie Mouse getting fucked by Mickey, and Snow White getting gang banged by the Seven Dwarves. Click here to read the full interview and click here to shop for some Chapel NYC's vintage tees now available on Autre.
Venus Over Manhattan presents Pablo and Efrain, an exhibition of new work by painter Katherine Bernhardt, on view beginning September 9, 2015. The exhibition’s title is a nod to the twin artists behind the collective Poncili Creacion, whom the artist met during a recent residency in Puerto Rico. “It’s all about Puerto Rico, so it’s fruit, sharks, water, sea turtles, all tropical,” notes Bernhardt. For Pablo and Efrain, Bernhardt depicts items both specific to the lush landscape of Puerto Rico and her personal affinity for novel and mundane commodities, such as cigarettes, headphones, sharpies and keyboards. Katherine Bernhardt "Pablo and Efrain" will be on view at Venus Over Manhattan until October 24, 2015. Read our review of this exhibition here. photographs by Adam Lehrer.
I try to not speak in absolutes, but I really believe that Mike Kelley was the best artist of his generation. His work demanded attention, and at times could be equally frightening, radical, revolutionary, and poignant. His Kandor project, that he started in 2009 and worked on up until his suicide in 2012, is one of the most aesthetically beautiful and emotionally powerful bodies of art created over the last 30 years. The Kandors are the primary focus of the new Hauser & Wirth exhibition, ‘Mike Kelley,’ that opened last night. Click here to read the full review. photographs by Tenlie Mourning
Canadian based songstress Nicole Dollanganger is one of our new artists. It's no wonder since Grimes found her first and put her first album out on a newly created record label Eerie Organization. Dollanganger's album, entitled Natural Born Losers, will be out on October 9th and she will be going on tour supporting Grimes. Natural Born Losers finds the artist stepping out of the bedroom and into the studio for the first time. Dollanganger's tender, harrowing portraits of secret pain and suffocating loneliness now occupy a much wider and grander canvas than ever before, confidently realizing a new level of scope and detail that her previous work only suggested.
Argentina was Holy Patte's last stop on their epic four-month journey through South America, discovering the magical terrain along the way; all the while keeping true to their mission to find craftspeople who are still making things by hand. It is also here that we say goodbye to Holy Patte - until they share with Autre another one of their magical adventures.
Today is officially National Grandparent's Day. In honor of this special today, not only do we urge you to visit, call or think about your father's father or mother's mother – we also urge you to listen to Noah Wall's amazing new EP. With the simple question: ‘”What did (or do) you call your grandparents?” – Wall encouraged 100 of his friends to send in their answers. With those replies, he created an amazing EP and a subsequent short animated film with 217 spoken grandparent names. Wall, who has been known for embedding himself as an audio spy in a Guitar Center and creating a series of Good Morning Instagram videos, described the project: "This pot of Nanas, Papas, Opas, Gidos, Booboos, Gagas, Gogis, and Yeahyeahs was starting to resemble some sort of psychedelic Rosetta Stone lesson." You can click here to listen to the full EP and download the album.
No one seems to do psychedelic rock as joyously blistering as the Japanese. In this playlist, you'll find some of the most ear scorching psychonaut rock n' roll out there. Within this list is the progenitors of this whole thing, Les Rallizes Denudes, with their vampiric doo-wop stomper 'Night of the Assasins.' The immortal Kawabata Makoto is well-represented on this list, with his band Mainliner's 'M' and longstanding project Acid Mother Temple's 'Starless and Bible Black Sabbath." Kawabata's sound philosophies are a strong stand in for the philosophy of this blissful form of music. Equally influenced by Stockhausen as he is Hendrix, Makoto marries the most mind-altering textures from rock, noise, drone, and jazz to bring an aural onslaught that pummels as much as it enlightens. Click here to listen
David Zwirner presentsan exhibition of Gordon Matta-Clark’s drawings, a medium the artist explored continuously throughout his career, alongside the architectural cuts and photographs for which he is most known. On view at 537 West 20th Street in New York will be rarely shown works that reveal on an intimate scale some of the major ideas underpinning his practice. With his drawings—which span three-dimensional reliefs, calligraphy, and notebook entries—Matta-Clark captured the interdisciplinary spirit that defined the art world in the 1970s. Intricate and yet concise, they testify to his interest in the crossovers between visual and performance arts, as well as the broader integration within his oeuvre of the natural and built environment—trained in architecture, the artist keenly explored options for creating “breathing cities” in treetops as well as below ground, subverting traditional ideas about urban planning. Gordon Matta-Clark "Energy & Abstraction" will be on view until October 10, 2015. photographs by Adam Lehrer
Lehmann Maupin is pleased to present its fourth exhibition with British artist Billy Childish, a prolific painter, writer, and musician. The artist’s vivid oil paintings offer fragmented fields of intense color applied frenetically, often leaving charcoal marks and the linen canvas exposed, further emphasizing the immediate and intuitive nature of Childish’s work. Billy Childish "Flowers, Nudes and Birch Trees: New Paintings 2015" will be on view until October 31, 2015 at Lehmann Maupin, 536 W 22nd Street. photographs by Tenlie Mourning
Daniel Arsham makes art. His studio is nestled away on a quiet street in the Greenpoint neighborhood in Brooklyn. You could pass his studio door a hundred times and not even notice it, were you not looking for it. The front of the building almost looks to be an extension of his art. And, behind the unassuming door is a vast treasure of ash, crystal, obsidian and other substances that make up the various forms of his sculptures. Click here to read the full interview.
In 1972, David Bowie released his groundbreaking album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. With it landed Bowie’s Stardust alter-ego: A glitter-clad, mascara-eyed, sexually-ambiguous persona who kicked down the boundaries between male and female, straight and gay, fact and fiction into one shifting and sparkling phenomenon of ’70s self-expression. Together, Ziggy the album and Ziggy the stage spectacular propelled the softly spoken Londoner into one of the world’s biggest stars. A key passenger on this glam trip into the stratosphere was fellow Londoner and photographer Mick Rock. Rock bonded with Bowie artistically and personally, immersed himself in the singer’s inner circle, and, between 1972–1973, worked as Bowie’s official photographer. Last night, Taschen Gallery in Beverly Hills celebrated the launch of the book and an exhibition of selected photographs from the tome for an exhibition entitled David Bowie: Shooting For Stardust, which will be on view until October 11. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Kohei Yoshiyuki from the "Park" series
Flipping my roles, cuckolding is a favorite. To have someone watch me fuck is an honor and a privilege yet enormously humiliating and/or exciting for them. I am enjoying myself thoroughly while you watch and pine. Click here to read the full essay.
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Last month, we featured an incredibly fascinating interview with legendary Viennese Actionist Hermann Nisch. Tonight, the artist will be having his first exhibition at the Marc Straus gallery in New York. The exhibition will include recent paintings as well as important historic pieces from his distinguished career of over 55 years. Since 1957, Nitsch has been addressing the intensification of human existence through his ritualistic performance art, most prominently “The Orgien Mysterien Theater.” With more than 100 performances to date, these staged Dionysian performances are replete with religious sacrifices, mock crucifixion, blood, entrails, robes, dance and nude participants. Religious tropes are all here; the intensity resembles scenes from Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece, the carcasses nod towards Rembrandt’s hanging meats. The exhibition opens tonight and runs until October 8 at Marc Straus Gallery, 299 Grand Street New York, NY. photographs by Tenlie Mourning
Sue de Beer
Untitled (Mariya), 2009/2011
Sue de Beer paints a lonely, haunting portrait with moving imagery. She is a filmmaker, but she is ultimately an artist in the sense that her short films exist in a sculptural environment that typically inhabits a physical space – usually a gallery – replete with film stills, three dimensional objects and more. Her films are often inspired or influenced by literary works and deal with identity, memory, and paranormal activity. In her film Ghosts, an occult hypnotist recovers lost lengths of time from peoples’ memories and returns them as if they are new memories. In another film, The Quickening, sexuality and desire is explored in an oppressive environment of Puritanical New England in the 18th century. The installations in which De Beer presents her films creates an almost dreamlike environment that leaves the viewer wondering if the time spent within the installation was a dream itself. Click here to read our interview of the artist.
The first monograph on notorious photographer Chris von Wangenheim, whose shocking work epitomized the glamour and excess of the 1970s and reflected the fashionable underworld living life on the edge. Between the years 1968 and 1981, photographer Chris von Wangenheim shocked the world with a body of work that explored sex, violence, and danger in the realm of high fashion. Von Wangenheim’s dark photographs were emblematic of the time—an era that encompassed Deep Throat, the sexual revolution, punk, and porn—and continually challenged the viewers’ taste by its stylized depictions of suggestive (and often harrowing) narratives. His images appeared in every top fashion publication—including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue Italia, and Interview—and he produced unforgettable campaigns for Dior and Valentino until he died in a car accident at age 39. This book, the first monograph on von Wangenheim’s career, contains over two hundred provocative and iconic images from this tumultuous era, including never-before-seen outtakes from memorable shoots with such supermodels as Christie Brinkley, Lisa Taylor, and the late Gia Carangi. Drawing on interviews with models, editors, art directors, and photographers who were influenced by him, the Padilhas revive von Wangenheim’s explosive depictions of the glamour and excess of the 1970s for a contemporary audience and reveal how his work continues to inform fashion imagery today. Click here to preorder the book.
