William Crawford "More Worried Than A Worm In A Bird's Nest" @ Farago Gallery In Los Angeles

More Worried Than a Worm in a Bird’s Nest presents the drawings of William Crawford. William Crawford’s drawings were found in an abandoned house in Oakland, CA. Several of them were made on the backs of prison roster sheets dated 1997. Nothing is known about the artist except for his occasional and varying signature as Bill, William or WM Crawford. In graphite on paper, the drawings depict drug use and orgies often including a recurring male figure which suggests the artist’s self-portrait. Their drawings recall the comic tumescence in the work of Tom of Finland and the weightlessness of William Blake. Crawford’s collected drawings, of which there are hundreds, appear to have comprised several narratives consisting of images in sequences of 30 or more. These sequences, presumably broken up since their original compilation, are now fragmentary. The exhibition is the first presentation of William Crawford’s work in Los Angeles. "More Worried Than A Worm In A Bird's Nest" will be on view until December 5th, 2015 at Farago Gallery, 224, West 8th Street, Los Angeles, CA. 

Watch The Premier of Bradley Bailey's "Bone Song" Where He Plays An Acoustic Guitar With Nothing More Than A Human Femur Bone

In honor of all things dark, mystical and spooky, we present the premier of Bradley Bailey's "Bone Song," which is a sort of shamanic composition that harkens the soundtrack of a pagan ceremony. Bailey, who we interviewed a few years ago, plays the guitar with nothing more than a human femur bone. In the interview, Bailey remarks: "The human femur is the perfect bone for it functionally and also provides for a profound example of the fact that music is vibration and with its creation, it also carries destruction, it's a very natural phenomena, it courses through us at all times and extends beyond our very perception and sensory experience of it." The video has no effects or microphone and the sounds you hear are entirely acoustic. The short film is directed by Zev Deans & Jacqueline Castel.

Jake Hoffman At the Los Angeles Premier of His First Film Asthma At Sundance Sunset Cinema with Cinematographer David J. Myrick

Jake Hoffman and cinematographer David J. Myrick outside of the Sundance Sunset Cinema after the Los Angeles premier of Asthma, Hoffman's first film. Read our review and interview with the film's star Benedict Samuel here. photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Opening Night of Lucien Smith's "Macabre Suite" @ A Warehouse In The South Bronx

Last Thursday night, Keith Rubenstein and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn hosted artist Lucien Smith’s "Macabre Suite," a one-night only art installation and epic party in the South Bronx to celebrate the purchase and the revitalization of the historic South Bronx Piano District by Rubenstein’s Somerset Partners. Guests included the likes of Gigi Hadid, Naomi Campbell, Adrien Brody, Baz Luhrmann, and more. There was also a strong line up of musical performances from Frankie Bones, Kool Herc, Mess Kid, Lucas Vercetti, Tigga Calore, DJ Chase B with a finale by Travis Scott. Widely considered one of the most gifted artists of his generation, Lucien Smith conceived Macabre Suite as an “art happening” inspired by the medieval genre danse macabre. A three-part exhibition evoking the season’s morbid undertones, Macabre Suite consisted of a special dance performance by Kobe Kanty borrowing from a wide range of traditional movements such as Sioux Ghost Dance and Japanese Butoh, a central sculpture which was part of Smith’s “Scrap Metal” series and a selection of oil paintings and video. photographs by Angela Pham and Matteo Prandoni/BFA. 

Mukunda Angulo From the Wolfpack Takes Us On A Tour Of His Exhibition At Deitch Projects in New York

Halloween time is like Christmas time for the Angulo family. Last week, Mukunda Angulo, one of the seven children from "The Wolfpack" – as explored in Crystal Moselle's illuminating and riveting documentary that won the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize and is a must see – took Autre on a tour of his and his brothers' exhibition that ended over the weekend at Deitch Projects in New York. The exhibition showed ephemera from the brothers' homemade movies and premiered their first short film, entitled Window Feel. Polaroid photographs by Julianna Vezzetti. 

Check Out Five Favorites From Artsy And Sotheby's Input/Output Auction That Are "Must Haves" For Collectors →

Richard Prince, Mark Flood, Parker Ito, you know, the biggies – Artsy's Stas Chyzhykova has create a list of five of her favorite works from the Input/Output auction presented by Artsy and Sotheby's, that are "must haves" for collectors. Tonight is your last chance to bid on these works. Click here to see the list. All works will be on view at Fused Space in San Francisco from October 22 to October 30, 2015.

Happy Halloween: For Autre's Friday Playlist, Listen to the Best of Horror Original Soundtracks →

While I'm not a huge Halloween fan, my love of horror cinema is only bested by my love of music. Luckily, the two mediums have always gone hand-in-hand. Films simply can't be scary without tense and eerie sounds gripping the film viewer as it goes along.  Click here to listen to the full playlist. 

Here Are Six Fascinating Things We Learned About Artist Justin Adian →

Artist Justin Adian titled his recently closed show at Skarstedt Gallery ‘Fort Worth’ after his hometown. The show features Adian’s bold organic paintings created by stretching oil enamel-painted canvases around foam cushions then mounted on wood. Some people would argue that Adian’s work is abstract, and they’d be right most of the time. But Adian also engages in pop culture iconography; one painting references Raymond Pettibon’s infamous Black Flag logo. Adian doesn’t so much mash-up high and low as he does reject high-low as a concept. Good art is good art. Click here to read six things we learned about Adian during his talk at Skarstedt Gallery. 

No Hate, No Fear: An Interview With Artist On the Rise Marilyn Rondon On Diverting Dick Pics, Her Obsession With Asses and Loving Freely →

"The first time I met Miami-based artist Marilyn Rondon was at this year’s New York Art Book Fair. She was working at a booth under the tent section of the fair and it’s very hard to not be immediately drawn towards her: a fiercely petite Venezuelan woman in her mid-‘20s with painfully beautiful bone structure, deep brown eyes, jet black hair, Olympian fitness level, and a vast collection of tattoos including script on her forehead and an amazing battle royale back piece done by Brad Stevens of New York Adorned. Trying to evade a pervasive sense of shyness, I briefly chatted with her while perusing through her impressive display of self-published zines and other work." Click here to read Adam Lehrer's convo with artist on the rise Marilyn Rondon. 

In the Veil of Cashmere: Poet and Photographer Thomas Roma Takes Tender Portraits of A Secret Erotic Eden

Steven Kasher Gallery presents Thomas Roma: In the Vale of Cashmere. This exhibition of Roma’s most recent project consists of an intricate sequence of 75 black and white portraits and landscapes photographed in a secluded section of Prospect Park, a meeting place where black, Latino and other gay and bisexual men have long sought one another out to fulfill their wish for community and to satisfy sexual desire. This is Roma’s first major New York exhibition of new photographs since his acclaimed solo exhibition Come Sunday at the Museum of Modern Art in 1996. The book In the Vale of Cashmere will be published by powerHouse Books in conjunction with the exhibition. Thomas Roma: In the Vale of Cashmere will be on view starting today and running until December 19, 2015 at Steven Kasher Gallery, 515 W. 26th St., New York, NY

A Sneak Peek Of Frank Stella's Retrospective Exhibition At the Whitney In New York

On October 30th Frank Stella’s major retrospective opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. The survey marks the first retrospective at the new location and encompasses around 120 works from mid 1950’s to the The entire fifth floor has been taken over by Stella’s large-scale paintings and sculptures, divided by floating walls that mark the different stages in the artist’s career. The 18,000-square-foot gallery is set up as a timeline that starts with Stella’s iconic work Die Fahne Hoch!, from 1959, with which the artist , 23 at the time, marked his rebellion against the strict limitations of Abstract Expressionism. The retrospective impressively manages to reconstruct the different stages in Stella’s practice, emphasizing especially lesser-known pieces made between the 1980’s and 2000’s. It is in this way that the artist’s natural progression into sculptural works unfolds for the visitor, as well as giving a clear understanding of why Stella continuous to call his work paintings. The metal structures, embedded with 3-D printed elements, tower seemingly weightless from the gallery walls and are reminiscent of canvases packed and layered with paint as in the case of “At Sainte Luce!”. It is in these moments that Stella’s personality and unwillingness to confirm to rigid definitions shines through. Frank Stella: A Retrospective will open tomorrow and run until February 7, 2017 at the Whitney, 99 Gansevoort Street New York, NY. photographs and text by Adriana Pauly

LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) Presents An All Souls Eve Fête At The Ebell of Los Angeles

LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) presented an All Souls Eve Fête, an "immersive, macabre evening of dinner, cocktails, dancing and live performance," at the historic Ebell of Los Angeles. A live auction, with works by the likes of Aaron Young, Eve Fowler, and Jay Stuckey, was presented by Artsy. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Alber Elbaz, Lanvin Designer Who Became Unlikely Face of The Once Obscure Brand, Is Stepping Down

Announced today, Alber Elbaz – who became the unlikely face of the once obscure brand 14 years ago – is leaving Lanvin, a 126 year old brand started by Jeanne Lanvin who initially started making clothes for her daughter Marie-Blanche de Polignac. The clothes started gaining the attention and a heritage brand was born. Who's going to fill Elbaz's shoes? – Who knows, we're still speculating on who take Raf Simons' place after leaving Dior last week. Could it be Elbaz?  

Devin Troy Strother "They should've never given you niggas money" @ Richard Heller Gallery in Los Angeles

On view now, Los Angeles-based artist Devin Troy Strother presents "They should've never given you niggas money" at Richard Heller Gallery. The exhibition takes its name from a line in a comedy sketch about Rick James by the great comedian Dave Chappelle. Artist Statement: "Behind any work that I do there’s always an element of humor. The current works revisit some previous motifs, such as the aluminum painted sculptures, but also go in a new direction with installation and neon. Neon, wallpaper and carpet are all areas that I’m interested in exploring more, as well as how to do a show that may have a lot going on in a room while, at the same time, have the room not feel overbearing with works."  They should've never given you niggas money will be on view until December 19, 2015 at Richard Heller Gallery in Los Angeles. 

The Year of The Zine: Read Our Picks For Some Of The Most Exciting and Scintillating Zines Of 2015 →

2015 is when the zine went mainstream. Some of our fave artists dabbled in the fine craftsmanship of the stapled chapbook that many people think dates back to the early days of punk, but it actually can be dated all the way back to 1776 when Thomas Paine published his famous pamphlet, Common Sense, which rifled enough feathers for thirteen colonies to declare war and independence from the British. Fancy that. However, the modern zine, which is shorthand for fanzine – not magazine as many believe – was a photocopied, hastily stapled together collection of appropriated imagery and art school angst. In 2015, the zine has held true to its DIY Xerox aesthetic, with a few surprising contributions – and of course some obvious contributors from the likes of one of our favorite photographers working today, Sandy Kim, and from one of our favorite new Los Angeles queer-cult collective, Gurt. Click here to check out ten of our favorite zines that came out in 2015, so far.

Premier Of The Final Installment of Haelos' Music Video Trilogy For the Track "Dust"

Today Autre premiered the last two parts of Haelos' music video trilogy directed by Jesse Jenkins - the one above for the track "Dust" and for the track "Pray."  In August, we premiered the first installment, for the track "Earth Not Above" and a link to purchase their new EP on the Matador record label. We're excited for whatever Haelos puts out next.