The Highway Is For Gamblers: Read Our Interview With Artist Jeremy Everett Who Crashed A 60-Foot Long Truck Full Of Milk On A Utah Highway For Art →

In Jeremy Everett’s latest, most ambitious work of art, entitled FLOY – a magnum opus of grandiosity and scale – the artist crashes a 60-foot truck on a highway in Utah, leaving milk spilled across the asphalt. The wreckage was filmed from a helicopter ­– the artist had to race from the crash site to the helipad before the milk evaporated. Indeed, evaporation is an important part of Everett’s oeuvre – in his Double Pour series, for which his current exhibition at Wilding Cran is named after, the artist captured water spilled on a generic parking lot in Los Angeles before it dried and disappeared into the ether. While most artists apply material to material, Everett’s practice seems almost like a VHS tape on constant rewind; a fuzzy layering of time, space and ephemerality that makes you realize the illusion of time, the impermanence of life and the absurdity of everything. Read our interview with the artist here. 

Nap Eyes, From Novia Scotia, Debuts the First Track off Their Upcoming Sophomore Album

Recorded live to tape, with no overdubs, on the North Shore of Nova Scotia (where the band is from) Nap Eyes’ quietly contemplative sophomore record refines and elaborates their debut, offering an airier, more spacious second chapter, a bracing blast of bright oceanic sunshine after the moonlit alleys of Whine of the Mystic, released in 2014. But the briny, cold Atlantic roils beneath these exquisite, literate guitar pop songs, posing riddles about friendship, faith, mortality, and self-doubt. Here the premiere of the first single off Thought Rock Fish Scale below – album to be released in February. 

Mark Bradford's "Be Strong Boquan" at Hauser and Wirth in New York

The color palette used by Los Angeles-based abstract painter Mark Bradford for the work in his stunning new show at Hauser & Wirth, Be Strong Boquan, is different than the palette that comes to mind when I think of his other work. While some paintings make strong use of the dark and austere colors most associated with his work, there are also bright pinks and yellows. Despite the vivaciousness of these colors, there is still a physical menace that emanates through them. Walking through the exhibit, I was reminded of that indescribable feeling that courses through your body just before you realize that you are full-blown sick: goosebumps on your arms, chills running through your spine, the inability to make a fist, a feeling of faintness. Click here to read the full review. 

Jeff Koons "Gazing Ball Paintings" @ Gagosian Gallery In New York

Jeff Koons’ newest exhibition Gazing Ball Paintings opened Thursday at Gagosian in New York. The exhibit presents Koons’ newest series of paintings entitled Gazing Ball, for which he recreated art historical paintings and inserted a glass-blown blue ball on a small shelve onto each canvas.  The selection of paintings represents Koons’ personal favorites, which he aims to make stronger by creating a dialogue between the viewer, the work and the space through the reflection on its surface. The blue balls hover in front of masterpieces such as Édouard Manet’s The Luncheon on the Grass, Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss, and Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, which the artist purposefully did not copy one for one but are there to create the idea of a painting. The flat paintings achieved to confuse some viewers about their authenticity, spark indignation, and the presumption that these paintings needed improvement outraged others. The reflection is reminiscent of a fun-house mirror, and according to the press release, creates a metaphysical occurrence, which connects the viewer to a family of cultural history in real time. Koons seems to have a preference for sexually charged scenes, epitomizing the male gaze even further, by the often unfortunate positions of the balls and their reflections. One disturbing example is Gustave Courbert’s Le Sommeil where the gazing ball is placed right between the legs of one of the figures.  Overall, the exhibit was in line with Koons child-like mentality and left the viewers curious and apprehensive of what can be expected of the artist in the future. Jeff Koons "Gazing Ball Paintings" will be on view until December 23, 2015 at Gagosian Gallery, 522 West 21st Street, New York. photographs and text by Adriana Pauly

Luna Tristá's "She's My Man" Explores Social Themes, Gender Identity and Queer Culture

She's My Man is a new project by one of our favorite photographers, the Cuban-born, Barcelona-based Luna Tristá. It´s a series of portraits she took of her partner, once a month, during their encounters in Barcelona and Paris. She's My Man is about social themes, gender identity and queer culture. It´s a project that develops ironic and romantic undertones and examines these themes from a personal point of view. photographs by Luna Tristá 

Watch The Insane Music Video For New Zealand Sensation Marlon Williams' Track "Hello Miss Lonesome"

New Zealand artist Marlon Williams will release his self-titled, debut album on February 19th on Dead Oceans. With his exceptionally versatile and evocative voice, Williams truly inhabits his material and presents a remarkably assured and diverse debut. The album’s rollicking, acrobatic opening, “Hello Miss Lonesome,” features Williams’ vocals soaring atop bluegrass guitars and a tight snare. It’s accompanying video, directed by Damien Shatford, is a heady visual counterpart presenting Miss Lonesome as an emotional chameleon, dragging Williams through a confusing internal space. Five different actors, each with the same aesthetic but different emotional rules, comprise Miss Lonesome. One may notice nods to Todd Solondz’s “Palindromes,” or that famous bathhouse scene in “Eastern Promises.”

Win Two Free Tickets To See Something Good Presented by Hit City U.S.A At the Echoplex in Los Angeles

Our friends at Hit City U.S.A have given us two free tickets to give away to see this really awesome show, Something Good, at the Echoplex on November 27th. The showcase will include performances from PAPA, Astronauts, etc., Maxim Ludwig & a DJ set from GROUPLOVE. All you have to do is tag a friend you want to go with on Instagram and we’ll choose two winners. Just tag a friend with @AUTREMAGAZINE and we’ll hook you up, no strings attached.  

Sex As Power and The True Meaning of Love: Read Our Conversation With Artist, Performer and Writer Lex Brown Who Just Released Her First Erotic Novel →

"The year is 2056. Hotshot lawyer Mia Garner needs a fresh start after dumping her cheating boyfriend. So she goes on a cross-country drive with Derek, her handsome tech stepbrother, to meet Xavier Céron, a mysterious CEO who wants to acquire the game-changing nanochip Derek invented," reads the description for Lex Browns erotic novel, My Wet Hot Drone Summer. Read our unique conversation with Lex Brown here. 

Melanie Pullen "Soda POP!" @ Jenkins Johnson Gallery in San Francisco

Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco presents its first solo show by Los Angeles photographer Melanie Pullen. The exhibition features photographs from Soda POP!, her new series that plays with cultural assumptions; she combines things typically associated with childhood, such as computer games, and places them in adult nighttime settings. The unease is heightened featuring young people marginalized by society, neglected street kids, or male prostitutes. Melanie Pullen "Soda POP!" will be on view until January 9, 2016 at Jenkins Johnson Gallery in San Francisco, CA. photographs by Bradley Golden

Paris Photo to Offprint: Here Are Five Things You Need To See During Photo Week In Paris

1. Toby Mott's incredibly covetable and controversial book, Skin Head: An Archive, has been released in a much more monetarily accessible reprint, dubbed "the street edition" – get it signed by Mott at Offprint Paris this Saturday 2. Eye shadow and glitter on paper, tear it up with Brigitte Zieger's solo show at Galerie Odile Ouizeman's booth at Paris Photo 3. Ed Templeton's book Teenage Smokers was beautiful, disconcerting and heartbreaking all at the same time - with Teenage Smokers 2, Templeton amps up the rebellion, get the book signed at Offprint Paris this Saturday 4. Go check out Jeremy Kost's erotically charged and paint splashed polaroids at Galerie Nuke – A Single Man opens on November 12 in Paris 5. The ultimate documentarian of UK underground culture, Derek Ridgers, will be signing copies of his book The Others at the Comme des Garçons Trading Museum Paris 

10 Must See Art Shows Around The World That You Really, Really Need To Check Out

1. Consumption, sexuality, violence, voyeurism, discomfort, guilt, loss of control, and fantasy at Paul McCarthy’s exhibition at Schinkel Pavillon – on view until November 22 in Berlin, Germany 2. Brad Phillip’s erotic Honeymoon Rehearsal at Rod Bianco opening on November 20 in Oslo, Norway 3. See Niki de Saint Phalle’s psychedelic world at the National Art Center in Tokyo, Japan – on view until December 14 4. Alex Israel’s cool, cool world at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas 5. See the late Dash Snow’s posthumous retrospective at the Brant Foundation in Greenwich, Connecticut 6. Misha Hollenbach and Cali Thornhill Dewitt team up for Hot Fire in Milan, Italy 7. Pablo Picasso’s sculptures are on view at The Museum of Modern Art In New York City, New York 8. The Avant-Garde Won’t Give Up at Blum & Poe in Los Angeles, California 9. Josh Jefferson is putting his Head Into The Trees at Gallery 16, opening on November 13, in San Francisco, California 10. Gilbert & George’s subversive banners will be on view at White Cube starting on November 25 in London, Englan

Go See Juergen Teller's Images of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West On View Now In London

One of the strangest and most talked about books of 2015 is Juergen Teller's "Kanye, Juergen & Kim," which was published by System Magazine, but never released. Idea Books put the book out and the world's axis tilted ever so slightly - mostly because of Kim's backside. Now you can see the photos and more at Phillips Gallery London until 20 November, 2015. 

Listen to Lana Del Rey's Heartbreaking Rendition of Daniel Johnston's 'Some Things Last A Long Time'

Last week, Autre got a chance to checkout Gabriel Sunday's moving short film, Hi, How Are You? at MAMA Gallery in Los Angeles that stars Daniel Johnston as an artist coming to terms with his dreams of yesteryear. The short film will be premiering tomorrow and can be preordered here. Below, listen to Lana Del Rey's cover of Some Things Last A Long Time, which is featured in the credits of the film. photograph by Terry Richardson