Swedish-born artist Hanna Liden just unveiled Everything — a series of works consisting of nine giant bagel sculptures as part of a public-art project in Manhattan. Seven of the giant bagels are on display in West Village’s Hudson River Park through October 20, while two will occupy a spot on lower Sixth Avenue until August 24. Leiden, a photographer-turned-artist, previously exhibited I Hope These Ruin […]
Third Anarchy Film Festival at MoRUS
Looking at much of Manhattan today, you may be forgiven to forget the city’s spiritual past as a radical place filled with radical people. A film festival, I NRCHY: Subversion & the City, now in ts third year, aims to celebrate New York City’s legacy as a place of radical thought and action. Running through August 8 at Museum of Reclaimed […]
Slow Machine with Chloe Sevigny Looking for Crowdfunders
Chloe Sevigny’s latest project, a “screwball thriller about performance and surveillance,” is looking for backers. Called Slow Machine, it is reportedly “bleak but funny.” The film’s makers are looking to crowdfund the creation of the ultra low-budget movie—its total reported budget is a modest $30,000—via Kickstarter. Who’s behind it? Filmmaker Paul Felten and musician Joe Denardo (of Growing) will direct, and the movie […]
Art Openings This Week in Los Angeles
A curated list of the best art openings across the best City of Angels galleries this week. Jeff Brian Sharp, Dianna Molzan, Alex Klein, Wolfgang Tillmans, Joseph Beuys, Neal Bashor Alex Klein, Kathleen Ryan, Nicholas Gottlund, Calvin Marcus, Rick Hager, Laeh Glein, Ken Price, Wolfgang Tillmans, Saul Fletcher, Joseph Beuys August 1, 2015 – September 12, 2015 Grice Bench, 915 […]
Ester Martin Bergsmark’s Something Must Break
Ester Martin Bergsmark’s underseen Something Must Break is one of the most profound representations of transgender identity recently depicted in cinema. Having cruised the festival and international circuits, American audiences have had limited access to the feature: Something Must Break was shown last year at the Tribeca and Chicago film festivals, and has not had a wider release. Which is […]
Boundless By Color
Everything you do, you do it in black But you loved me in aching color Photographer: Max Oppenheim Creative Director: Keanoush Da Rosa Fashion Stylist: Rhona Ezuma Makeup Artist: Nicky Tavilla @ Terri Manduca Hair Stylist: Stephen Beaver @ Jed Root Nail Stylist: Chisato @ Terri Manduca Model: Samantha Archibald & Suzi Leenaars […]
Sean McFarland: Space and Time
San Francisco-based visual artist Sean McFarland’s work is grand, yet equally small: landscape polaroid photographs that embody space and time through ambitious, captivating imagery of landscapes, mountains and, more generally, nature. McFarland works across the spectrum of light-sensitive materials, which includes cyanotypes, gelatin silver prints, and archival pigment prints to create powerful, visceral and, purposely, compositionally ambigous images. We speak to the artist […]
Thomas Sauvin, Linder Sterling, Henrik Malmström: Three best new photobooks
Henrik Malmström Life is One Live it Well German photographer Henrick Malmström takes us on a tour of Hamburg’s dark underbelly—the central neighborhood of St. Georg—which is home to such reputable establishments as the German National Theater. Around the corner, however, the neighborhood hides the city’s unofficial “red light district”, a collection of old bars, coffee shops and small, dingy […]
Below The Storm Was Calm
A break From reality A step Away from insanity Photographer: Lou Rolley Creative Director: Keanoush Da Rosa Art Director: Dan Von Harper Stylist: Jaime Jarvis Makeup Artist & Hair: Nicky Tavilla @ Terri Manduca Model: Raina Masters @ Supa Model Management and DNA Models Photographer’s Assistant: Eleanor Byrn