A Trip To Negril, Jamaica
photographs by Adarsha Benjamin
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Who wouldn’t want to see or be seen frolicking poolside with Mick Jagger, Naomi Campbell, and Uma Thurman on the Côte d’Azur? Pool Party celebrates the parties and poolside social scene at bon vivant Johnny Pigozzi’s swimming pool in Antibes, France. Royals, captains of industry, supermodels, rock stars, artists, movie stars, politicians, and everyone who is anyone has gathered around the famous blue pool at Villa Dorane. This book contains more than 100 iconic and unpublished photos from the personal archives of Johnny Pigozzi, spanning six decades, from the 1950s to the present day. It provides an intimate and whimsical look into the splashiest gatherings of the world’s most intriguing personalities, including Bono, Sharon Stone, Woody Allen, Penélope Cruz, Mick Jagger, Elizabeth Taylor, Naomi Campbell, and Elle Macpherson, to name just a few. Pool Party is the perfect summer gift, enticing the reader to dive in and become a part of its glamorous scene. Click here to preorder.
When I meet Harbison in his small, clothes-filled office near Manhattan’s City Hall, he is in great spirits despite a busy morning. Though his brand sat out the last NYFW, he is still moving forward. His next collection will be the first “gender-neutral” collection where the clothes are cut in ways to fit a man and a woman’s body. He laughs a lot, and has an ease in explaining his ideas that is absent in a lot of creatives. We spoke at length about his history and the direction of the brand. Click here to read more. photographs by Adam Lehrer
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Jason Vass presents Soft Instant, featuring new works by Australian-born, Los Angeles-based photographer Luke Austin. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Known for his intimate nude male portraits, Austin captures images that reveal the individuality of his subjects in a moment of disarming contact. Austin intuitively conveys the vulnerability of his sitters through the empathetic quality of his photographic gaze, extending a care to his subjects and humanizing their masculinity beyond the momentary arrest of the frame. Luke Austin "Soft Instant" will be on view until April 16, 2016 at Jason Vass Gallery in Los Angeles. photographs by Douglas Neill.
“Athens Love” consists of snapshots Ren Hang took in Athens and other parts of Attica, Greece, during an artist residency in April, 2015. The images evoke faded memories of escapades with friends and lovers against the saturated backdrop of the Mediterranean. An incandescent face rises from a tumble of long black hair, bordered by a blue sky and sea; protruding genitals cheekily reflect the surrounding natural landscape. Linking these images is a narrative Ren Hang subtly pursues in all his work, in which man and nature each react to the other’s magic. Ren Hang will be signing copies of monograph, Athens Love, at New York’s Dashwood Books on March 25, 2016 with an exhibition at Klein Sun Gallery in New York from 24 March 2016 to April 30, 2016. Click here to read Autre's short interview with the photographer.
Art Basel Hong Kong 2016 officially opens tomorrow, but here Autre provides a glimpse of what to expect and a small fraction of the hundreds of galleries and programs and special editions that will be on view. Art Basel Hong opening on March 24 and runs until March 26, 2016.
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Cult Aussie label S!X was stablished in 1994 by Denise Sprynskyj and Peter Boyd in response to the local industry’s lack of originality, over-consumption and over-production, S!X combines traditional tailoring, dyeing and fabric manipulation techniques with the practices of recycling and deconstruction. The presentation, photographed and art directed by Good John, was held at Sarah Scout Gallery during its present exhibition, Veronica Kent: I Get Nervous Around Bulls and Eagles. Styling by Peter Boyd and Denise Sprynskyj (Designers of S!X). Shoes by MM6 Maison Margiela and Nine West. Hair and Make Up by Beth Haywood. Models: Jessie, Sunny, Tyrone, Lucy, Scarlett, Ariele.
photograph by Ger Ger
Blum & Poe gallery in Los Angeles presents forty years of painting by artist Julian Schnabel. This exhibition marks Schnabel’s first solo presentation with Blum & Poe. After a hiatus from the West Coast art scene for nearly a decade, this first exhibition at Blum & Poe takes the form of a concise overview of an exhilaratingly divergent painting practice—making a forceful case for the historical importance of Schnabel’s oeuvre as well as his ever-growing relevance to a new generation of artists. Julian Schnabel "Infinity On Trial" will be on view until April 30, 2016 at Blum & Poe gallery in Los Angeles.
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Tom House: Tom of Finland in Los Angeles, from the Rizzoli imprint, is a delicious peek inside the legendary former residence of Finnish erotic illustrator and painter of all your gay fantasies, Touko Laaksonen. The home, on a quiet suburban street in the Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, is where Laaksonen, most famously known as Tom of Finland, lived and worked during the last ten years of his life. The men and muses he lived with still live there to this day and maintain the home just as he left it, albeit with a lot more of his artwork on the walls. To the un-gay eye, this house may seem like a den of iniquity, but in reality it is a shrine to the late Tom of Finland and it is a testament to freedom of sexuality and desire. Straight or gay, Tom’s House is a must visit when you spend time in Los Angeles, and the book is an excellent way to visit if you can’t actually be there. All in all, the book is also one of the best testaments to the legacy of Tom of Finland. Click here to purchase Tom House: Tom of Finland In Los Angeles.
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