"Bright Resolutions" Group Show @ CES Gallery In Los Angeles

CES Gallery presents Bright Resolutions, a group exhibition featuring works by Tanya Brodsky, Jonathan Chapline, and Megan Stroech. Our senses are saturated, near collapse, overloaded. Endless media consumption is more exhausting than liberating, but if you lower your screen brightness your battery can last longer. Resolution is the act of breaking down complexity into constitutive parts, as in infinite Rs, Gs, and Bs, but to have resolve is to be determined and resolving is diplomatic. We like hi-res, which we associate with the professional, the incorporated, authenticity, truth, but we feed on and stream with lower resolutions, the type that clogged digital arteries can handle, fuzzy copies of copies. Through down-rezzed re-production new entities are formed, abstracted from originals; new contexts created, meanings recoded, resolutions shifted. "Bright Resolutions" will be on view until January 22, 2017 at CES Gallery in Los Angeles. photographs by CES Gallery

Sam Durant "Build Therefore Your Own World" @ Blum And Poe Gallery In Los Angeles

Blum & Poe presents Build Therefore Your Own World, an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Sam Durant. The title is excerpted from a Ralph Waldo Emerson essay. Durant continues his excavation of marginalized American histories, unearthing counter storylines to the historical canon. In this exhibition he proposes a hybridized cross-pollination between the iconic nineteenth century transcendentalists like Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Louisa May Alcott, with African writers such as Phillis Wheatley and Lucy Terry Prince, along with abolitionists like Frederick Douglass. Further developing his theses from a recent three-month long public art project in Concord, MA entitled The Meeting House, Durant transforms relics from this politically loaded site of American history into a prescient presentation of culturally charged artworks. Sam Durant "Build Therefore Your Own World" will be on view until February 18, 2017 @ Blum and Poe Gallery in Los Angeles. 

Watch The Premiere Of The Music Video For Cate Le Bon's Track "Rock Pool"

The video for "Rock Pool", finds Cate Le Bon reunited with director Casey Raymond for a fantastical experimentation in neo-Technicolor, La Nouvelle Vague and a locale that could be a dead ringer for Led Zeppelin's Houses of The Holy. Click here to preorder the 12" which is due out January 27 on  Vinyl. 

Peter Saul "From Pop to Politics" @ CB1 Gallery In Los Angeles

During January and February the George Adams Gallery, New York will present an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Peter Saul at CB1-G in Los Angeles. The exhibition will feature 20 works made between 1957 and 1967 covering his development as an artist from the late 1950s through his transition from Pop in the early 1960’s to a politically engaged, topical artist whose works tackled the most pressing issues of the day in the later half of the decade. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Tallulah Willis "Please Be Gentle" @ Eric Buterbaugh Gallery In Los Angeles

For her Los Angeles gallery debut, artist Tallulah Willis presents a suite of new line drawings featuring charming and peculiar creatures that defy taxonomy and present a timely commentary on millennial ennui. Tallulah Willis "Please Be Gentle" will be on view until March 6 at Eric Buterbaugh gallery in Los Angeles. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Read An Exclusive Excerpt From Marc Frazier's Upcoming Memoir "Without" →

Between the drinking and the acting out sexually I was dually addicted. I felt I didn’t have control over either. I would be in my car coming from someplace and my car literally headed for the Bijou Theater for instance. I honestly couldn’t decide not to go. I could be dead tired or not feeling well; it didn’t matter. I was driven to have sex or to drink. Click here to read more.

A True Cultural Oasis: We Look Back At A Legendary Year In The Nightlife Of Tenants Of The Trees →

When Tenants Of The Trees descended upon a relatively quiet nook of Silver Lake, no one really knew what to expect; not the inhabitants of Silver Lake or denizens throughout the glittering, panting sprawl of Los Angeles. While the world raged outside, the venue, particularly Out Of Order (the private club within Tenants), would become an oasis – an island in the middle of an existential desert. Like the name suggests, a perch was given to creative artists and musicians around the world – not just locally – who used the venue to debut and announce albums, put on secret performances and cathartically scream and dance their hearts out after the death of Bowie, Prince, Vanity, Cohen, Michael and many more. Tenants of the Trees’ gave the space to Autre on countless occasions for their iconic Friday Artist Take Over (FAT). Instead of doing the typical “best of” year end list, we decided to take a look back at one of the most mythic and fabled years of nightlife within the hallowed walls of Tenants Of The Trees, and Out Of Order. Click here to see more

Ed Ruscha, Billy Al Bengston, Larry Bell, And More Plan Historic Talk @ The Broad Stage In Los Angeles

The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica and Sotheby's Institute Of Art will present Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Robert Irwin, Ed Moses, and Ed Ruscha on stage in Artists Talk: LA Legends - A Conversation With California Art Icons, on January 18, 2017, the first of a series of talks with influential California-based artists, established to explore the living legacy of Los Angeles' vibrant contemporary arts scene. Click here to purchase tickets. photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Richard Healy "Lubricants & Literature" @ Tenderpixel Gallery in London

Lubricants & Literature is the first solo exhibition at Tenderpixel of represented artist Richard Healy. Including a series of new sculptures and a video installation accompanied by a limited edition publication, the show explores a moment of true magic in the tension between stasis and transformation. Lubricants and Literature will be on view until December 31 at Tenderpixel in London. 

VFILES And Mountain Dew Spring/Summer 2017 "Camo Out" Collection Launch Party @ VFILES In New York

VFILES and Mountain Dew are teaming up to release a collection for Spring/Summer 2017. The camouflage heavy collection, featuring Mountain Dews' iconic green, elevates outdoor gear through innovative wearable tech like body-cameras and personal-audio system technology. Titled "Camo Out," the range includes track suits and jackets that play music, baseball caps that are fitted with cameras, and backpacks that are fueled by solar power. A party was held at VFiles in SoHo to celebrate the collection drop. text and photographs by Adam Lehrer

Take A Look Inside The Studio And Read Our Interview Of FUCT Founder And Artist Erik Brunetti On His New Artist Book

Looking like a cross between a rogue border patrol agent and a cowboy dandy, Erik Brunetti is the founder and fearless leader of one of the most iconic American street wear brands. The brand’s name alone, FUCT, harkens a kind of dissidence and lassitude belonging to that doomed generation that came before the digital dark ages and the millennials struggling to survive in its cold pixelated miasma. While street wear brands like and Supreme and Stussy opted for safety in numbers, the FUCT brand, which was conceived in Brunetti's Venice Beach bedroom in 1991, remains uniquely intact and connected to its DIY roots. Starting off as a graffiti artist in New York City, FUCT became a kind of extension of Brunetti’s seditious ideals. Just recently, Brunetti teamed up with Paperwork NYC to publish a book of new drawings. Entitled Astral America, the book is an ode to post truth with a smattering of India ink renderings of drones, US military propaganda, pop iconography and psychologically damning, accusatory, and anti-consumerist slogans aimed squarely at the gluttony of American culture. We got a chance chat with Brunetti about the book, the current state of FUCT and why it’s not cool to justify war with hashtags. Click here to read the full interview.