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Gallery: Regen Projects, Los Angeles

“I knew about the gallery before I ever moved to the United States,” says Philippe Vergne, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art who first landed in the U.S. in 1990s. “If you look at the Los Angeles art scene, Regen Projects, together with a handful of galleries, was really the organization that promoted artists… Continue reading Gallery: Regen Projects, Los Angeles

Seventeen Gallery, London

Co-founder of Seventeen Gallery, Hoyland, came to London from Shropshire to study at Chelsea College of Art & Design. “I wanted to be a ground-breaking performance artist.” Instead, in the late 1990s he went to work at Coskun Fine Art in Knightsbridge, run by Gul Coskun: “High heels, short skirts and Warhols. The hardest-working woman… Continue reading Seventeen Gallery, London

Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin

Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin, established in 2008, is dedicated to developing a cross-disciplinary, trans-generational gallery programme with off-site projects, in collaboration with artists, filmmakers, critics, art historians, and curators. Its international exhibition programme reflects a variety of opinions and practices as well as Leighton’s associations with American and British experimental cinema, artist’s film and video,… Continue reading Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin

T293 Gallery, Naples and Rome

Established in 2002 in an historical building of the Neapolitan centre, in Via dei Tribunali 293, T293 has always been characterised by a keen awareness on artistic practices that are both experimental and conceptually relevant to the current discourse in the field. First conceived as artists’ space dedicated to the support of emerging artists, in… Continue reading T293 Gallery, Naples and Rome

Wilkinson Gallery, London

After cutting his curating teeth running a project space for three years based in the front room of his Paddington Flat, Anthony Wilkinson opened his first gallery behind an unshowy grey façade on Cambridge Heath Road in 1998, at a time when you could still count the number of commercial galleries in the area on… Continue reading Wilkinson Gallery, London

Photograpy: Lauren Greenfield

   Lauren Greenfield, Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood, 1997, Girl Culture, 2002 and Thin, 2006 Acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield is considered a preeminent chronicler of youth culture, gender, fashion, media, wealth, beauty, and consumer culture as a result of her groundbreaking photographic projects (Girl Culture, Fast Forward, and THIN)… Continue reading Photograpy: Lauren Greenfield

Art: Arnar Asgeirsson

Arnar Asgeirsson, Intersection #2, and Intersection, digital print, 50 x 65 cm, 2014 Arnar Ásgeirsson practice involves video works, animations, drawings, installations and sculptures with performative aspects deal with the queston of creative ownership, originality, the relation between high- and low art, reproduction and the differences between creating and copying. Inserting objects as characters into… Continue reading Art: Arnar Asgeirsson

Fall 2015, Ready-to-Wear: Christian Dior

Christian Dior, Fall 2015, Ready-to-Wear, Paris, 2015 Throbbing Gristle’s “Hot on the Heels of Love,” the piece of music that soundtracked the Christian Dior show today, has a chilly, slaphappy Fifty Shades quality that seemed tailor-made for a collection whose animal essence was fulsomely described by Raf Simons as “something more liberated, darker, more sexual.” Something… Continue reading Fall 2015, Ready-to-Wear: Christian Dior

Jil Sander, Fall 2015, Ready-to-Wear

Jil Sander, Fall 2015, Ready-to-Wear, Milan, 2015 Frédéric Sanchez’s soundtrack—a blurry, impressionistic, almost atonal mesh of Nico’s and Chet Baker’s versions of “My Funny Valentine”—suggested chaos. But the set was a precisely ordered group of colored pillars, like a geometric Stonehenge. Rodolfo Paglialunga imagined his new collection for Jil Sander forming somewhere between the chaos… Continue reading Jil Sander, Fall 2015, Ready-to-Wear

Lauren Greenfield, The Queen of Versailles

Lauren Greenfield, The Queen of Versailles, 2012, digital video, 100 minutes and the Versailles Property, 2014 The Queen of Versailles is a character-driven documentary about a billionaire family and their financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis. With epic proportions of Shakespearean tragedy, the film follows two unique characters, whose rags-to-riches success stories reveal… Continue reading Lauren Greenfield, The Queen of Versailles

Wojciech Kosma, “In the beginning was the word,” Rehearsal II

Wojciech Kosma, In the beginning was the word, Rehearsal II, 2011 and The—family Part 1: Pieta, 2013 It’s not often that we get to spy on each other’s private relationships. Reading a Facebook wall is no substitute for watching a couple alone in bed. Is it even possible for intimacy to be glimpsed from the… Continue reading Wojciech Kosma, “In the beginning was the word,” Rehearsal II

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Céline Fall 2015 Ready-to-Wear

 Phoebe Philo for Céline, Fall 2015, Paris, 2015 There is allegedly no such thing as coincidence, so presumably there’s some meaning to the fact that Phoebe Philo was showing her new Céline collection on International Women’s Day, even though she conceded that she was very conscious of walking a line between the responsibility that has been bestowed… Continue reading Céline Fall 2015 Ready-to-Wear

Curiosity Rover: Finds Biologically Useful Nitrogen on Mars

View from the Mars Hand Lens Imager camera on the arm of NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover and Curiosity Self-Portrait at Mojave Site on Mount Sharp, Mars, 2015 A team using the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite aboard NASA’s Curiosity rover has made the first detection of nitrogen on the surface of Mars from… Continue reading Curiosity Rover: Finds Biologically Useful Nitrogen on Mars

Richard Kern and Nick Zedd, The Manhattan Love Suicides: Thrust in Me, 1985

Richard Kern and Nick Zedd, The Manhattan Love Suicides: Thrust in Me, 1985, 35 mm, black-and-white, 35 minutes. The Manhattan Love Suicides are a series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me and I Hate You Now. “Stray Dogs” concerns an artist being followed thru the streets… Continue reading Richard Kern and Nick Zedd, The Manhattan Love Suicides: Thrust in Me, 1985

Photography: Chris Steele-Perkins

Chris Steele-Perkins, Virtual reality display by Subaru, Japan, 1999, Street Children in Luanda, Angola, 1999, Taliban fighters move against Masood’s forces, Afghanistan, 1996 and Trying out artificial limbs at ICRC clinic in Kabul, Afghanistan, 1994 Christopher Horace Steele-Perkins (born 28 July 1947) is a British photographer and member of Magnum Photos, best known for his… Continue reading Photography: Chris Steele-Perkins

Hauser & Wirth, Art Gallery

Hauser & Wirth is a gallery of contemporary art and modern masters, with locations in Zurich, London, New York, Somerset and Los Angeles. Hauser & Wirth was founded in Zurich in 1992 by Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth and Ursula Hauser. In 1996, the gallery’s first permanent location, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, opened in the former… Continue reading Hauser & Wirth, Art Gallery

The Dark Web: It Sounds Sinister and It Certainly Does Hide a Multitude of Very Dark Dealings

It’s a technological arms race, pure and simple. That’s how Jamie Bartlett, author of The Dark Net, sums up the constantly evolving battle in cyberspace between terrorists and the intelligence agencies trying to discover their hidden communications. “The unbelievable growth in widely available (encryption) software will make their job much harder,” he said. “What it will… Continue reading The Dark Web: It Sounds Sinister and It Certainly Does Hide a Multitude of Very Dark Dealings