Getting Afreaky: Check Out Our Interview and Studio Tour Of The Mystical Creative Force of Nature That Is The Haas Brothers →

The Haas brothers seem like mystical ambassadors from the future. However, they are not here to portend of doom and gloom, like the current headlines may lead you to predict. Indeed, the future looks pretty bright according to Nikolai and Simon Haas – fraternal twins who make high-end sculptural objects that only the very lucky can afford, but are almost talismanic in their complexity and humorous in their intentional simplicity. The materials the brothers use mimic natural and rare phenomena in nature. This gives their work a sexual energy that takes phallic and vaginal forms, replete with folds and shafts and rounded curves that could make the prudish contingent quite sensitive. Put the work together and it looks like a combination of Maurice Sendak's menagerie of Wild Things and Dr. Seuss on too many tabs of acid. Click here to read the interview and see more pictures. 

Linda McCartney and Mary McCartney: Mother Daughter Opening @ Gagosian Gallery in New York

Exhibited together for the first time, the photographs of the late Linda McCartney and her daughter Mary explore the connective tissue of family, common experience, and a love of the photographic medium. Their images are highly instinctual, rather than analytical; as well they reveal a great ability to capture fleeting moments of intimacy. Spanning three decades, works by the photographers are organized to reveal the almost symbiotic harmony between them. The exhibition is a treasury of moments derived from relaxed interactions with family, a dazzling array of celebrities—Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Kate Moss, Rihanna—and everyday life. Evident is a shared sensibility between mother and daughter in how they establish an emotional rapport with their subjects and exact a sense of their true selves. Rather than distinguishing between works by Linda or Mary, the installation proposes their vision of the world as one. Linda McCartney and Mary McCartney: Mother Daughter will be on view until December 19, 2015 at Gagosian Gallery, 976 Madison Avenue, New York. photographs by J Grassi (Patrick McMullen Company)

Ariel Pink and Blood Orange Soundtrack Collaboration for the Film Heaven Knows What is Released Today On A Limited Edition Ninja Star Seven Inch

Today marks the release of the limited edition ninja star shaped 7 inch with music by Ariel Pink and Dev Hynes of Blood Orange for Josh and Benny Safdie's heroin love drama "Heaven Knows What." Listen to a track from the record below and purchase the limited edition vinyl here – there are only 850 copies. 

A Very Autre Thanksgiving Playlist With Tracks by Bowie, Peaches, Kanye, Drake, and More →

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Where will you be eating today? Family? Friends? Both? To commemorate the holiday we put together this playlist counting down a slew of songs that express gratitude to one thing or another. Leonard Cohen and Jeff Buckley's versions of 'Hallelujah' both praise the state of existing in this world. Lou Reed is grateful for heroin in this version of the Velvet Underground's 'Heroin.' Everyone is thankful for sex, and in 'Fuck the Pain Away' Peaches illuminates on the healing powers of rough sex while weird hair R&B singer Sisqo is merely thankful for the all mighty thong. On the more poignant end of the playlist is Stevie Wonder, whose track off 'Innervisions,' 'Living for the City,' express love and thanks for his parents. Bowie says thank you to all the heroes out there where ever they may be. Happy thanksgiving, and stay thankful. Click here to listen to the full playlist. 

Watch The Music Video For The Soupcans Track "Siamese Brutality"

“I decided the images needed to come to life before their inevitable destruction, so I just moved them around with my fingers and an exacto knife. I guess you could call the technique “paperteering.” It looked clunky and dumb and it made me laugh.” - Winston Hacking. Hacking created the music video for The Soupcans song "Siamese Brutality" off the Soft Party LP, which can be purchased here.  

Lucia Ribisi Chooses Her Favorite Feminist Memoirs That Came Out in 2015 →

The political and social landscape of 2015 inspired need for both self-reflection and a call to action. This year, we saw the release of beautiful new memoirs by feminist icons of the past few decades—Patti Smith, Gloria Steinem, Janet Mock, and more—tackling issues of women’s rights, self-empowerment, and art itself. Here are some of Lucia Ribisi's favorite feminist memoirs from the past year, along with some additional must-read memoirs. Click here to read. 

Nick Zinner "601 Photographs" @ Lethal Amounts In Los Angeles

Nick Zinner, guitarist for New York based band Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the hardcore band Head Wound City, is currently exhibiting his photographic work in the Los Angeles gallery Lethal Amounts. “601 Photographs” consists of 601 images taken over the course of 15+ years on and off tours with various musical projects over 6 continents. Voyeuristic and documentarian at the same time, the images capture a wide spectrum of moments; from crowd shots and hotel beds, to intimate portraits and situational snapshots. “601 Photographs“ is a continuation of large-scale exhibitions that Nick has previously shown in New York City, Mexico City, San Francisco, and Tokyo. "601 Photographs" is on view now at Lethal Amounts, 1226 W. 7th Street, Los Angeles, CA. photographs by Lucia Ribisi

Anja Salonen "Future Bodies" @ As It Stands Gallery In Los Angeles

Anja Salonen's Future Bodies questions the limits of painting in the virtual age. While aware of their historical context, Salonen's paintings are heavily reliant on a post-analogue visual language, and explore the interaction between body and virtual. Salonen's “Avatars,” digital personas which are uniform, ambiguous, androgynous, and intangible, interrogate identity in the internet era, where the distinctions between self and mask, real and virtual, become increasingly nebulous. In control V, referencing the work of Edouard Manet, Salonen brings attention to the ways in which female bodies continue to be appropriated, fractured, revised, distorted, censored, and objectified in the digital era. Alluding to traditions of painting in which women’s bodies were used by male artists as blank slates on which to further visual representation, Salonen calls upon the viewer to question what has changed and what has remained invariably the same in depictions of women and female sexuality in the 21st century. Future Bodies is on view now at As It Stands Gallery, 2601 Pasadena Ave, Los Angeles.

Norman Reedus Photography Exhibition @ Voila! Gallery in Los Angeles

Norman Reedus is showing his photographs at Voila! Gallery in Los Angeles. The images consist of dark captures of Reedus' macabre world and dark sense of humor - obviously inspired by his role in the Walking Dead. Using costars and Russian prostitutes as models, the photographs have an almost tableu vivant quality reminiscent of Joel Peter Witkin.  The exhibition will be on view until December 31, 2015 at Voila! Gallery in Los Angeles. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper. Follow Autre on Instagram: @AUTREMAGAZINE

Watch Cross Record's Self Created Music Video for the Track 'High Rise'

Cross Record, also known as Emily Cross, has shared a video for “High Rise,” the latest track taken from her forthcoming album Wabi-Sabi, out January 29th via Ba Da Bing Records. Self-created by Cross and husband Dan Duszynski one muggy October morning before she left for work, Cross bizarrely merges with the Dripping Springs landscape of their Moon Phase Ranch home. Awkward body contortions become alien dance moves, as Cross’ eerie, distorted presence commandeers the imagery. Cross approaches videos as integral pieces of her albums, and “High Rise”s sonic intensity is the primary inspiration. She also tosses in a chainsaw for good measure. Cross recorded Wabi-Sabi on that above mentioned 18 acre ranch, complete with a chicken coop and adjoining bird sanctuary. Interacting and adapting to new environments is a theme that permeates this smoky, atmospheric sophomore album. Click here to preorder the album.

Josh Jefferson "Head Into The Trees" @ Gallery 16 in San Francisco

Gallery 16 presents their first exhibition with Boston-based artist Josh Jefferson. Jefferson’s painting and works on paper balance on a line between figureation and abstraction. His work is a celebration of abandon and control. It retains a palpable sense of the joy in it’s making and the struggling to maintain order. Jefferson’s choice of materials often reinforce the sense of playfulness in his work. The artist uses crayons, colored pencils and common acrylic paint, often upon the pages of art history books. It is not uncommon to turn over a Jefferson drawing to find the image of a famous work by Modigliani or Titian. Josh Jefferson "Head Into The Trees" will be on view until December 31, 2015 at Gallery 16, 501 Third Street San Francisco, California. photographs by Bradley Golden. 

In Xavier Cha’s "Feedback" The Audience Are The Performers @ 47 Canal in New York

When I entered 47 Canal, I immediately assumed that the metal bleachers in the otherwise empty gallery were an open invitation to take a seat, only to be gently ushered to the opposing wall by a smirking gallery staff. After a while a group of young people entered the gallery from a side door and started taking their seat on the bleachers, lightly chatting and exchanging cordial glances only to fall completely silent on the hour. The silence spread into the audience, the focused stares of the performers all gathering on the digital clock behind us. Out of nowhere, the performers erupted in cheerful screams and started hugging each other in ecstasy similarly as a crowd cheering on an iconic band or during a charismatic speaker. The laughs and screams ricochet off the empty walls and filled the entire room, sweeping the audience up in the excitement. The performers continued to change their reactions every 30 seconds, going from happy, to outraged over to embarrassed and completely stunned. Each emotion filled up the entire room, washing over the audience with such intensity that at times it felt as though the 18 people were actually laughing at us. With that sense of paranoia it became harder and harder to sit and watch the performed reactions, each laugh became accusatory and each open mouth became a judgment.  It is this that truly characterizes Xavier Cha’s work, the ability to channel unseen energies through an almost banal scene that makes her audience reflect on indivisible stimuli we face everyday. The work is a meditation on our own self-centeredness and shows how quickly we take other peoples reactions personally. Xavier Cha's "Feedback" was on view from November 11 to November 15 at 47 Canal in New York. Images and text by Adriana Pauly